PLUS: Finding the energy to save the world. View in browser | Your newsletter preferences 03.22.26 Crypto Catastrophical Snorfalemonorp! There, now you know this wasn't written by a robot. Or … do you? DO YOU REALLY KNOW THAT? Reader, you don't. There's no rule that says AI can't make up nonsense words. OR SCREAM IN ALL CAPS. Or use ~funky internet punctuation~ or maek typos or [insert other stylistic idiosyncrasy that ostensibly demonstrates a writer's humanity]. At this point, large language models can fake just about anything. So. There's no hope? No hope for creativity in the literary arts? No new piece of prose about whose originality we can harbor no doubts? Wrong! Even if LLMs can make up words, or SCREAM, or write phrases as unbearably try-hard as "about whose originality we can harbor no doubts," they don't. Most users are content to let AI speak its native (technically tongueless) tongue: a bro-y, yes-and, over-em-dashed t...
