{"id":4159,"date":"2025-08-11T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rzautoassembly.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:53:05","slug":"ai-wrote-my-column-but-i-stole-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rzautoassembly.com\/sl\/ai-wrote-my-column-but-i-stole-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Wrote My Column (But I Stole It Back)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\uff081\uff09<\/span>The coffee had cooled to the temperature of a regret\u2014lukewarm, lingering<\/span><\/strong>, proof that I\u2019d spent 47 minutes \u201cjust resting my eyes\u201d instead of writing this column. The solitaire deck was stacked like a monument to my own indecision: three kings buried under a mess of 5s and 8s, much like the ideas in my head. I stared at the blank document, its cursor blinking like a judgmental eyelash, and thought: If only this thing could write itself.<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff082\uff09<\/strong><\/span>Turns out, the computer was one step ahead<\/span><\/strong>. Above the empty page, a tiny prompt winked: \u201cLet AI help you draft.\u201d Followed by a list of suggestions, as if it knew I was flailing: \u201cMath quiz for fifth graders.\u201d \u201cResume outline.\u201d \u201cMicrosoft intern interview guide.\u201d None of which screamed \u201chumor column,\u201d so I typed the words like a plea: \u201cWrite a humor column.\u201d Then hit Enter.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff083\uff09<\/span>And there it was<\/span><\/strong>. A column. Eleven hundred words, with subtitles, rolling onto the screen like a conveyor belt of jokes. About procrastination. Procrastination.<\/em>\u00a0The very thing I\u2019d been perfecting since 9 a.m. Eerie? Absolutely. It even had lines that made me snort\u2014lines I swear I\u2019d used in 2017. \u201cProcrastination is just your brain\u2019s way of saying, \u2018This can wait until we\u2019ve rewatched\u00a0The Office<\/em>\u00a0for the 12th time,\u2019\u201d it wrote. I checked my old columns. Yup, that one was mine. So much for \u201coriginal content.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff084\uff09<\/strong><\/span>Now, I faced a moral dilemma that would\u2019ve made my high school English teacher gasp<\/span><\/strong>: Plagiarize an AI? It was faster, cleaner, free of the typos that usually decorate my work like confetti. But then I remembered what I\u2019d actually<\/em>\u00a0wanted to write about: the chaos of English spelling, that cruel prank played on humanity by people who clearly hated vowels.<\/div>\n
Take \u201cqueue.\u201d Four extra letters hanging off the back like a tail on a goldfish\u2014pointless, floppy, begging to be trimmed. Or \u201crhythm,\u201d which looks like someone dropped Scrabble tiles into a blender. And don\u2019t get me started on \u201cough\u201d: It sounds like \u201cuff\u201d in \u201ctough,\u201d \u201coh\u201d in \u201cthough,\u201d and \u201coff\u201d in \u201ccough.\u201d Why? Who decided this? Was there a meeting? Did they serve snacks? I bet they did. Cowards.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff085\uff09<\/span>I\u2019d also planned to campaign for ditching \u201cph\u201d for \u201cf.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> Let\u2019s make \u201cphony\u201d into \u201cfony,\u201d \u201cphotograph\u201d into \u201cfotograf.\u201d Save ink, save sanity, save kids from crying over phonics worksheets. But then there\u2019s \u201cknow\u201d\u2014if we chop the \u201ck,\u201d how do you tell \u201cno\u201d (the refusal) from \u201cno\u201d (the knowledge)? You can\u2019t. English, you see, is a drama queen. It adds letters for flair, drops them for chaos, and calls it \u201chistory.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff086\uff09<\/span>But the AI?<\/span><\/strong> It didn\u2019t care about any of that. Every time I typed a typo\u2014\u201cteh\u201d instead of \u201cthe,\u201d \u201cbeleive\u201d instead of \u201cbelieve\u201d\u2014a little box popped up: \u201cRewrite with AI?\u201d As if my mistakes were a problem to be solved, not a signature. As if the reason people read this column isn\u2019t the occasional \u201coops\u201d that slips through, the proof that a human (flawed, caffeinated, prone to tangents) wrote it.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff087\uff09<\/span>The AI\u2019s column was perfect.<\/span> <\/strong>Too perfect. No detours about my cat knocking over a plant mid-sentence. No parentheses that wander off like lost dogs. No lines that make me think, Did I really just type that?<\/em>\u00a0It was a robot doing an impression of me doing an impression of a humor writer. Faster? Sure. Easier? Absolutely. But better?<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff088\uff09<\/strong><\/span>At the bottom of the screen<\/span><\/strong>, in letters small enough to hide a secret, the AI warned: \u201cAI generated content may be incorrect.\u201d A masterpiece of understatement. It can\u2019t get \u201cqueue\u201d right, can\u2019t laugh at its own typos, can\u2019t know that the best jokes are the ones that feel like a friend leaning in to say, \u201cHey, isn\u2019t this ridiculous?\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\uff089\uff09<\/span>So here\u2019s what you get instead<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong> A column written by someone who spent 20 minutes arguing with a computer about \u201crhythm,\u201d who still thinks \u201cough\u201d should be banned, and who will never let an AI steal the joy of typing \u201cteh\u201d and deciding.<\/em><\/div>\n
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The cursor\u2019s still blinking. My coffee\u2019s still cold. But at least this one\u2019s mine. Warts, typos, and all.<\/span><\/div>\n

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