When Words Aren’t Speech

AI can generate perfect sentences. The First Amendment is about something else.

Why trying to answer this question helped me feel (slightly) less existentially terrified by machines that sound like humans

The first time I used ChatGPT, I didn’t sleep the entire night. It was so much better, so much more realistic, and so much more uncannily human than I ever thought I’d see in my lifetime that I was convinced humanity was over (in t…