A kind correspondent has pointed out that the list of 10 ways to be Interesting generated by ChatGPT and featured in yesterday's post only contained 9 items. Of course! I had not noticed.
AI is going to be the very devil to edit because it's so smooth that it's hard to read properly. We just bounce off it. I presume, because it's basing almost everything on 'what's the next most probable word?', we feel like we can tell where it's going and make unconscious assumptions about where it'll end up.
That strange way with language used to be strange and interesting. It threw up unexpected words and beguiling ideas. Now it's just strangely, dangerously bland.