I posted this on Facebook and LinkedIn, and nobody liked it.
One knock-on, downstream effect of the AI revolution is that Alberts, Alfreds, Alphonses, and Alistairs will probably stop using the nickname Al.
I presume this is because the algorithms don’t have a sense of humor or have flagged it as misinformation.
It would never occur to me it’s just not that funny.
The joke came to me when I read an article about climate change, and the name Al Gore was broken so Al was on one line and Gore on the next, and I just scanned Al as AI. In the serif font of the WordPress text editor, it’s clearly different. But in the sans serif fonts of the Internet, it looks the same.
One more reason to study calligraphy: If one can read it at all, one can tell the letters apart.
