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People loved AI when it corrected the picture. They panicked when it could enter the picture.
Correction Was Cute. Creation Got Weird. isn't a book that tells you to love AI or hate it — the author is upfront that pretending there's a clean answer would be dishonest.
For decades, machines helped us spell, drive, shop, calculate, take photos, avoid traffic, find songs, and flag fraud. Nobody called it cheating. We called it convenient. Then AI learned to write, draw, speak, imitate, and invent, and suddenly everyone got very concerned about what was “real.”
It's a funny, honest, occasionally self-deprecating tour through machine assistance old and new — spellcheck, GPS, autofocus, and actuarial tables, all the way to chatbots, image generators, and deepfakes — built around one question the rest of the conversation keeps skipping: did it help a human become more capable, or did it just make weakness look polished?
This isn't a manifesto with a verdict at the end. It reads more like a conversation with someone who has actually used the tools, noticed the weird parts, and isn't finished thinking about it either.
“The first AI many of us loved was spellcheck, which is funny because spellcheck has been publicly humiliating us for years.”
“Buttons did a lot of public relations for machines.”
“Good formatting has talked a lot of nonsense past security.”
“A tool does not become wise because it is powerful.”
“Did it help a human become more capable, or did it just make weakness look polished?”
Miles Lane writes about the ordinary, absurd, and occasionally uncomfortable ways technology has already changed daily life — usually before anyone agreed to it. Correction Was Cute. Creation Got Weird. is his first book.
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