I used regurgitate to try to differentiate it from actual writing to that professor earlier today. It's an entirely accurate term. People just need to understand it's spitting out stuff from a stockpile of data, not "making" something.
All kidding aside on my part, it's the war over AI in the Dune books and I keep thinking that we find ourselves over and over again seeing the real-life version of weird stuff from sci-fi novels only when they happen to us they're just dorky and dumb instead of scary and cool.
I need to revise earlier statements. I used to say the only thing AI was unequivocally good at was information warfare at speed. I was wrong. It is *also* very good at inventing whole new dystopian futures I'd not really considered. It really innovates in the "bleak future possibilities" space.
My partner's father is in cognitive decline but is, because he's always been kind of an asshole by nature, making it very much his daughters' and wife's problem, and even in my most frustrated point with him I would be disgusted by someone doing something like this to him. And these fucking psychopaths think inventing memories for granny is doing her a favor. AI really does excel at making new ways to be cruel to people.
