I Tested AI to Write for Me. This is What Happened.

It could be bad. It could be good.

You are probably wondering if Artificial Intelligence is writing this.

Am I a robot? Am I human? The joke is on you — everyone’s a robot. Including you.

Online writing is booming. Because I make my living in this world, lots of products land in my inbox. Candidly, most are junk. But lately, more AI products are trickling in.

In an effort to help other creators expand their toolbox, I’ve traveled to the land of literary terminators to see if there’s anything to offer.

And it can, to an extent. AI can certainly link together a few sentences, even a few ideas. But things get weird when they try to push further than that.

As an example, imagine if you went incognito simply by wearing a wig and a mustache. From a distance, people might not suspect anything. But up close, they’d know something was off.

I started this experiment with very difficult requests. Then I worked my way down from there.

First, I tested the AIs humor:

You can see how it almost cracks a joke. But not quite. In other attempts, it tried to make a pun. It failed. Which is probably for the better. The world already has enough puns.

Initially, I was skeptical of these programs. I suspected they were just crawling the web and pasting text. So I tried something ridiculously specific, which hasn’t been written before:

The best of six responses:

Not bad, right? It passes. Not great. But definitely not terrible.

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