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For the most part, I use the robot as a grammar spotter, because Gemini's free and I ain't paying Grammarly another cent. Like O'Rourke, it also wanted to follow through, seemingly recognizing my own weakness in following through with things. And that is legitimately neat, especially as I fed it more of my old material to try and see if it can copy how I sound (which isn't even that good but I like to think it's better than a smoother but rote undergrad voice). And for text, LLMs are deadly-efficient on power. Barely like 10 watts on a local model I use on a 30-token rate with excellent memory, meaning the robot and I refer back to things faster. But she's also right about another thing: the more I use it, the more I tell it to do things I should be practicing. It's why I never let it generate from scratch, and ensure to stick with the voice even if it sounds "wrong" to it because then it's a bit more "honest" I guess. Certainly not for topics I care about the most -- Mary Oliver is right about her assertion there.

My real beef with robots for creative work lies not in the tool, but what it took to build it, and what it's helping enable. Because many of these companies will collapse soon, and I'd rather have the computing hardware and financial compensation go to the artists and creators whose work was used to train the robot EXCLUSIVELY. Yes, I want Sam Altman and his ilk fleeced naked for stealing without proper attribution or recompense, even if it was in the Gutenberg public domain corpus, and the chips redistributed as free, open-to-all render farms to allow real-time animation work at 120hz so that artists can work faster and more efficiently. It's the least they can do to pay back the people who are now being active terrorized by normal folk for seeming to be redundant when in reality, robots can never truly capture "art" on their own.

Also, many tech CEOs are siding with right-wing thinktanks because they know that the erosion of mental work that O'Rourke felt is vital to creating a consumer class that doesn't question any draconian measure as long as they can blame the repercussions on the migrant, the colored, the queer, and the poor. And they've branded "being creative" as a transgressive, at times evil, human action that must be devalued. The robot doesn't really "know" that. It only does as it's told. But I'd rather have the tool NOW to be used by us who at least care enough to do better, so that even those who see the robot as "normal" retain that distinct discretion that only a person has.