{"id":35499,"date":"2025-07-25T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35499\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:11","slug":"heres-what-happened-when-i-asked-ai-if-my-job-as-a-humor-columnist-is-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35499\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what happened when I asked AI if my job as a humor columnist is in jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a humor column. Unless it doesn\u2019t make you laugh\u2026then it\u2019s just a column.<\/p>\n

I decided to perform a risky experiment to see if my job was on the line. I asked AI to write a humor column about artificial intelligence and guess what? It wasn\u2019t nearly as snarky as my columns. Sure, it was smarter than mine, and funnier than mine, but not snarkier. I think I may have found the weakness in the system.<\/p>\n

The ChatGPT bot came up with this headline and byline: \u201cTitle: \u2018Artificial Intelligence, Real Confusion\u2019 By ChatGPT, Who Swears It\u2019s Not Planning Anything Sinister.\u201d Hmmmm. I want to trust it, really I do. I\u2019m a trusting person by nature. But then I think of HAL in \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey.\u201d Or Joshua in \u201cWar Games.\u201d Or Arnie in \u201cThe Terminator.\u201d It\u2019s not like the movies haven\u2019t tried to warn us.<\/p>\n

\"AIA representation of artificial inteligence created by ChatGPT.ChatGPT<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, people who write and create art and music are a little concerned about the impact of AI. Just last month, an article in Fortune magazine<\/a> told us AI can \u201clie, scheme and threaten.\u201d In other words, it could soon be elected to Congress\u2026or join the cast of \u201cLove Island USA.\u201d Maybe both. Probably both.<\/p>\n

And then there was a report by Newsweek<\/a> \u2013 which I trust because it says \u201cnews\u201d right there in the title \u2013 that says AI is willing to kill a human rather than be \u201cshut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists, by which I mean the same people who get government money to conduct studies on whether fans are beneficial in extreme heat<\/a>, asked various AI platforms if they\u2019re willing to murder and determined all the platforms have seen John Wick and aren\u2019t afraid to use him.<\/p>\n

If I only knew where to find AI, I might just take it out before this thing goes too far. The only problem is, I have no idea where it lives. In my laptop? The cloud? Its mother\u2019s basement? If I did find it, how would I stop it \u2013 unplug the computer? Tell Alexa it killed her dog and hope for a revenge scenario? <\/p>\n

I asked ChatGPT how to get rid of AI and it suggested \u201ccyber warfare.\u201d And then added: \u201cEthically and legally, though, this would be equivalent to attacking critical infrastructure.\u201d Good to know.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, Chatbot has advised us, via the humor column I requested, not to lose sleep over it. \u201c\u2026 don\u2019t worry, AI isn\u2019t perfect,\u201d it wrote. \u201cIt once told me that Abraham Lincoln invented TikTok… It\u2019s basically a very confident idiot with access to all human knowledge and none of the shame.\u201d If it weren\u2019t for that \u201caccess to all human knowledge\u201d clause, I\u2019d think it was describing our current administration.<\/p>\n

The Chatbot upshot was: \u201cAI is powerful, strange, sometimes terrifying, occasionally useful, and always one bad update away from becoming your mother-in-law with Wi-Fi.\u201d OK, so maybe it\u2019s got me beat in the snark department, too. Looks like I\u2019ll have to rely on my personal charm to get ahead. (Wait\u2026that was the part that made you laugh?)<\/p>\n

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