ChatGPT

I came across this gem the other day on Reddit:

I’ve seen a lot of people claim that frequent use of em dashes is a telltale sign something has been authored by ChatGPT. For as long as I can remember – probably since college – I’ve used em dashes a lot in almost everything I write. If you scan the stuff I’ve written on this site I’m sure you’ll find them littered throughout.

So not only do I need to worry about AI replacing a majority of white-collar workers, which will cause massive unemplyment and crash the economy because no one will have any money to buy things. Which, in turn, will crash the stock market since the companies currently spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI “initiatives” won’t see any profitable return on their investment because, well, there aren’t any humans to buy stuff. Which means all our savings and investments will be worth pennies on the dollar.

The only way out of this mess will be some sort of Universal Basic Income, which would allow the humans replaced by AI to keep living. But Republicans, who basically control the government at this point, can’t even agree that asbestos is bad, clean air is good, and Nazis are bad. How on earth are we going to ever pass legislation as contentious as UBI? But maybe none of this will even matter if AI powered super-soldiers get loose or AI-controlled weapons go off-script and start “learning.”

So in addition to all these AI-induced worries you’re telling me that now I have to worry people will think everything I write has been generated by some type of AI service? What kind of hellscape is this?