Just how creepy is the AI now?

I wrote the following comment:

The content of the AI discussions, and their flow, seemed fairly natural, but in looking at the "text" of the dialogue through the mind of a scriptwriter, one can sense the machine-like tendency to balance the dialogue, to make the discussion somehow both fair and blandly neutral—cold and lifeless. I'd heard one of these AI "exchanges" some time ago (as you say, this isn't exactly new), and I recall coming away with that same creepy feeling. Even the "um"s start to feel like machine-generated attempts at naturalism. Neither interlocutor has any real "punch" or personality; neither is trying to provoke or otherwise antagonize the other; there's no sense of a potential personality conflict or a wabi-sabi imbalance between the two, e.g., he's the impetuous one while she's the more quietly logical one. Instead, it's just two robots clothed in naturalistic voices, interacting in a way that's ultimately banal, milquetoast, and dead.

There's also a certain relentlessness to the conversation, an artificially unflagging energy displayed by both "interlocutors." It's way too peppy to be real, but this isn't something you can figure out immediately. As you listen, though, it becomes more obvious, at least on a subliminal level. This kind of thing could get really entertaining as regular people start to write their own crazy dialogues using AI voices, changing up accents and cadence and adding all sorts of random, "human" sounds to the dialogue (coughs, hawking, simple nose-breathing, etc.). We'll all become playwrights. As another commenter said, "When AI gets good enough, the actors' guild will be destroyed."

Of course, when everyone jumps in and participates in a thing that's been democratized, we'll also see a distinct jump in the level of banality and mediocrity—which is, ironically, something the AI is already good at. Most humans will simply follow its lead. You have only to look at how internet memes, with their constant display of stupid language gaffes, have promoted the pulverization of English into its most retarded form to see what I'm talking about.