Trouble in Paradise Part I
It’s the year 2035. Brain-atrophying tech (Gen AI) has found its way into every corner of life as we know it, from media generation, journalism, and coding to answering emails, itinerary planning, and even setting parental and governmental guidelines.
The dead Internet theory is now a reality that you and your friends mediocrely wallow in as your once-resourceful forefathers turn in their graves.
Your unfaithful and soon-to-be ex-wife sent you a charged message, but you are too hooked on convenience and immediate results to write one in response. Besides, you suspect her writing was too eloquent to be her own—since when can the bitch write and express herself so cohesively?
You entrust the task to the language model of the future, for why should you half-ass the effort when the bot can say it better? Yeah, it doesn’t have the whole relationship context, but you do not mind authorizing access to your chat history for a chance at increasing response relevance while slashing the time you would have otherwise spent prompting and tweaking.
"That’s a surefire gen-response; I’m not proofreading this shit," you tell yourself. You wasted your youth on that hoe-ass bitch, and you are not about to give her a minute more of your time.
The message is sent, and your phone is blowing up 43 minutes later, “Hound,” – you previously named her contact – is all over your notification center. There are 20 missed calls and a text in caps that read: “Hound: WHO THE FUCK IS BRENDA?”
A storm of puzzlement and fear is brewing within you. It turns out the model hallucinated a story from an auto-corrected text. GPT 29o blundered! Who would have thought? Certainly not you in this case.
Your wife’s lawyer was briefed and is now pleased to have the case go from a tough nut to crack to low-hanging fruit. He has enough legal ammunition to make you dance in court, and you know it. You could already hear him go, “It’s not infidelity when my defendant had the right to respond in kind, your Honor.”
It's court hearing day...
End of Part One