December 22, 2025
I recently spoke about how people now sound like AI. After pondering the issue further, I came to a scary realization that I, too, am permeable and thus susceptible to this.
A while ago, I ended up looking up commonly used AI words, like: delve, boast, meticulous, etc., so I could avoid them. I now find myself generally avoiding scripted videos, as they might have used AI for the script.
Even if they did not, many people now sound like AI, and I’m trying to minimize my exposure to it. I don’t want to sound like a machine; I want to sound like a human. I want to stutter and make mistakes.
In old Sci-Fi books, the robots always envied us. Our imperfection was what made us humans, and in stories like Asimov’s Bicentennial Man, the robots seek imperfection to become more like us.
Especially as someone who writes fiction, I don’t want my writing to be robotic. I want it to be perfect, but what that means seems to be changing.
Perfection is sterile and clinical. Nature is imperfect, and yet it’s all I’ve ever wanted.