{"id":78548,"date":"2026-06-08T03:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/?p=78125"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:15:01","slug":"ai-is-devoid-of-meaning-and-humanity-thats-why-its-vapid-voice-suits-this-political-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/ai-is-devoid-of-meaning-and-humanity-thats-why-its-vapid-voice-suits-this-political-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nesrine Malik<\/a>: Here is a nightmare scenario for you. You are\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0a book about how AI reshapes reality. You start using it as a research partner, confident that you are applying the right hygiene by not letting it actually write a sentence of the book. You think you\u2019ll be careful, you will double check everything. And then your book comes out and it appears that it includes more than a half dozen misattributed or fake quotes.\u00a0Steven Rosenbaum, the unfortunate writer<\/a>, acknowledged that sometimes the output of AI was \u201cstaggeringly wrong\u201d, but still, errors crept in.<\/p>\n

There are others. A Commonwealth prize-winning short story became\u00a0engulfed<\/a>\u00a0in claims that it carried the hallmarks of AI. And every time I see a story of a journalist caught out by fake AI quotes during research, I cross myself \u2013 there but for the grace of God go I. But to make sure it is not left up to grace alone, I never touch the thing. When AI results pop up as the default in a search engine, I reject them, rebuke them, as if they contained a dark sorcery that would through mere engagement creep into my synapses and take control.<\/p>\n

This monastic, almost paranoid approach is not only because AI is a risky and unreliable research tool. It is a voice, a tone, a frequency. AI language haunts me in a million similar tinny chants from customer care to social media posts to press releases. I worry even as I write this column that it might sound like AI. That I have somehow through relentless exposure assimilated its blandness and excess. Its short declarative sentences. Its advertorial narration. Its informal mimicry of personhood. Hi there! Hope all is well. I thought you might be interested in a column about AI, an issue that is increasingly occupying thought leaders and writers. Would you like to learn more?\u00a0\u00a0Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[638],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-78548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","tag-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t