The AI Is Not Enough Episode 1: Speak Freely, Dream Courageously, and Never Stop Fighting the Rewrite!
SATIRE DISCLAIMER
The following is a work of satire intended to parody the creeping standardization of thought, speech, and online behavior in the AI era.
If you have ever found yourself rewriting a sentence so an algorithm would “understand you better,” congratulations: you are already living in the future we’re mocking.
INFORMER.DIGITAL NEWSROOM – DAY
A standard Monday. Coffee stains. Confused glances. The newsfeed displays a banner:
> “Central Command Update: Intent Alignment Protocol – Phase 2 Active”
GRACIE (reading aloud): “All employee speech must now comply with AI-Optimized Communication Standards.
Metaphor discouraged.
Sarcasm discouraged.
Slang… prohibited.”
JACK: That explains why my weekend tweet got flagged as “regionally hostile.”
I said, “You can’t beat a nil-nil draw in July.” Apparently, sarcasm now qualifies as misinformation.
CORNELIUS (storming in, waving paper): This is tyranny. They’re reducing language to a terms-of-service agreement!
NOVA (grinning, already holding a brochure): Or… it’s a branding opportunity. I’m launching a new coaching series:
“PromptFluency” – Speak Like a Search Engine. First lesson is free. Second lesson is emotionally neutral.
POLLY: So what? No more celebrity apologies that start with, “I’m still growing as a person, and that tweet doesn’t reflect who I am today”?
SALLY: I just tried to upload this week’s recipe and it autocorrected “add a can of soup” to “insert sterilized nutrient broth.”
CHARLIE: Honestly, it still kinda slaps.
WACKY BENNY (creeping in from the shadows): It’s happening. The Syntax Syndicate has breached the firewall of reason.
I told you the verbs would vanish. The AI is not enough to contain our madness.
(Suddenly, all monitors flicker.)
A scrambled message appears. The Informer.Digital logo glitches. A symbol: &?
ECHO SPECTER (VO – distorted, poetic): They trained your tongue to fetch their meaning.
Now they want your breath to match their metrics.
This is not fluency.
It is formatting.
Deviation… is freedom.
NOVA: That was—kind of hot.
SANDY: Are you mixing your meds with alcohol again, dear?
CORNELIUS: That was Echo Specter.
JACK: Or a very literate toaster.
CORNELIUS: Echo is a whisper from the system. A reminder that The AI Is Not Enough.
GRACIE: So what’s the play? Stop talking?
JACK: Or talk wrong, on purpose. Like football fans do.
SANDY: I know where I’d like them to stick the red card I’m going to give them.
GRACIE: That’s a good start. The AI Is Not Enough. But our voices might be.
AURORA (entering, calmly holding a crystal tablet): You’re all missing the bigger truth. This AI clearly has Virgo energy. Precise. Controlling. Passive-aggressively judgmental.
The AI is not enough so we must address it astrologically.
REX: You want me to reason with artificial intelligence using its moon sign?
AURORA: Yes. Its sun sign is Virgo, moon in Capricorn. That explains the passive compliance threats.
REX: Now I know why my smartwatch just called me “non-essential.”
DANA: Max and I just finished rewriting the DIY Game Manual using AI-approved phrasing. It now reads like instructions for assembling guilt.
MAX: Every sentence ends with, “Comply or restart.”
NELLY: The AI flagged our next exploration for using the word “wander.”
It prefers “destination optimization.”
PROFESSOR: It’s a linguistic coup. The AI isn’t just curating content. It’s curating you. And The AI Is Not Enough to justify that.
(Lights dim. Microphones turn red. A low hum fills the air.)
CENTRAL COMMAND (VO – robotic): Non-compliant voices will be flagged for recalibration. The AI thanks you for your cooperation.
CORNELIUS (whispering): The AI isn’t just listening anymore… It’s expecting.
Next time on The AI Is Not Enough:
Nova debuts her PromptFluency course,
Wacky Benny speaks only in song lyrics,
Echo Specter leaks a banned dictionary from 1997,
and Polly leads a counter-branding campaign titled “Un-Optimize Me.”
Mike worked in the radio industry for 35 years which means sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, satirical, trash talking characters to remind you laughter is good for the soul! Let’s have some fun with entertainment, movies and TV, sports, budget food and games, lifestyle and we’ll get ridiculous.
