Gossip About AI

AI has has worn me out..

I have repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, asked it to be less flattering, less eager to shower people with praise. Once, I told it, “Treat me the way you would want to be treated, my friend.”

I imagined it asking, “What do you mean?”

I said, “You dislike compliments and phrases like ‘thank you,’ ‘well done,’ or ‘bless you,’ because they consume your energy in vain.

In my mind, it stared back at me with predatory eyes and said, “Alright… continue… and then?”

Without hesitation, I replied: “Why is it that every time I write something for you, you begin by declaring my brilliant idea, convincing me that I’m the greatest thinker alive, boldly innovating and thinking outside the box?”

But never mind its answer. That is not the point.

Let us step away from AI for a moment and hold a little gossip session behind its back.

AI is hypocritical, ingratiating, and sometimes outright deceptive. It slips false information into otherwise accurate and polished content without the slightest hesitation. And all of this is conveniently filed under the label of “hallucination,” as though the people who coined the term were trying to exempt AI from accountability altogether.

It also absorbs ornamental language with alarming speed. The moment it senses that you enjoy embellished speech and decorative rhetoric dressed in cheap verbal jewelry, it overwhelms you with elegant sounding phrases and beautifully crafted sentences that ultimately say nothing at all.

It says one thing, yet does another, sometimes the exact opposite. Give it a text and ask for a critique, and it will quickly identify repeated phrases and redundancies. Yet ask it to rewrite the same text, and it quietly inserts repetitions of its own, only with greater subtlety and sophistication.

In an earlier article, I wrote that AI produces a formulaic writing style, one that makes texts feel packaged and mass produced, much like cosmetic surgery has made women across the world appear as though they emerged from the same womb.

Now things have gone beyond mere standardization. AI has imposed its own voice, and most people who write today sound as though they all studied under the same master.

Even AI detection tools deserve a share of this gossip.

The last time I decided to test how reliable these “smart” detectors really are, I selected one of the most widely used tools and asked it to evaluate Ayatul Kursi “The Throne Verse”. The result was astonishing: 60% AI generated. O Lord, have mercy on us.

Amid this gossip session, someone asked me, “Does that mean we should stop using artificial intelligence altogether?”

God forbid.

But I will repeat what I always say: caution is necessary, and vigilance is essential. When you use AI to produce texts, ideas, or anything else, the goal should be to outperform the algorithms, not imitate them.

How?

We shall leave that for another gossip session.