I Got An AI To Autocomplete Famous Novels

I fed in the first lines, then hit “autocomplete”. Hilarity ensued

“typewriter”, by Ak~i

Autocompleting AI is on a roll.

It’s now sufficiently good enough that plenty of folks are using it in daily business. About 85% of content marketers are using it to crank out online material; students are using it to write essays. There’s a “Dead Internet” conspiracy theory that claims all online material is just AI bots talking to other bots; we seem to be creeping towards that territory, yes?

Personally, I’m morbidly fascinated by our massive global Turing-Test moment! Though I’m fascinated less for what it says about the awesomeness of AI than what it says about the mediocrity of us humans.

For years, people assumed the Turing Test — a bot writing so convincingly that we think it’s human — is difficult to pass. But it’s not! It’s incredibly easy for an AI to appear human-like in written prose, because we humans don’t set the bar terribly high, lol.

Consider much of the prose generated in the corporate world. Employees are often wildly overworked and underpaid, so when they have to write memos or reports or blog posts, they’re … not sweating the details. They’re not drafting and redrafting. No, they’re cranking out that stuff at typing speed, just to get the…