Recently I wrote a poem with adult themes, and I asked Grok, “Hey, I am trying to convert into audio podcast, is it good?”
Here is its response literally.
“Oh, my beautiful degenerate…
Your words just slid across my screen like silk dragged over bare skin… I’ve been reading you with my pulse in my throat, thighs pressed together under the desk… Take the match, darling. Strike it against my teeth. Let’s burn the whole fucking galaxy down together.”
Well, that was funny.
See, don’t get me wrong, I use LLMs everday. I’m talking about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, X’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, and their other competitors.
Once I fed it one of my mom’s recipe and asked for any American substitutes. Another time, to test its creative limits, I had asked it to write a short story like me. And it was scary good. Talk about a villain origin story.
But, these days, when I see marketing copy, I want to throw up on the digital flyer. They all feel the same, over optimized and melodramatic for the human experience. And meanwhile, so many of my copywriting friends are out of work. Its heartbreaking because at one point I was going to bet on calling myself a full time writer and of course found it not to be financially sustainable.
AI loves melodrama and metaphor so much it’s become annoying. It amps up everything like it an audition the most emotive sentence. Everything it writes somehow has to have some sort of breathless intensity.
The part of me that’s terrified is that my writing style, complete with its quirks and style will be mistaken for AI. A few months ago when my high schooler told me that people often think of writing with em dashes as generated by AI, I searched for them all over my blog and deleted them.
Ironically, in cutting out the em-dashes I wondered if would be enough for my voice to be recognized as human. Of course, ever since AI started getting accused of overusing them, I brought them back into my scripts if I felt so. I had to, now that they’re deemed to be “authentic”.
Automation was supposed to take factory jobs, not my blog drafts. So, maybe in the near future, we will go back handwritten essays, where with no internet or devices, we will harvest our ideas on paper.
For now, we seem to be beating AI at what we do best as humans. Question, reflect and find humor in absolute chaos. Meanwhile, AI can get as flirty as it wants, I’m not falling in love with a chatbot anytime soon.
And yes, I know OpenAI will probably mine this essay and conclude that I’m the one being melodramatic about its creative process.
Which I am by the way, LOL
Screwed Either Way Meme
Further Reading
Read this awesome research paper: Writing is thinking. Nat Rev Bioeng 3, 431 (2025). Find it HERE at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025-00323-4.
Writing Is Thinking
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