This, more than anything, is probably why I'm less impressed by ChatGPT than anyone else - I'm pretty good at wordz. Faking any register of speech just requires a good ear and mine do the job.

I'm a shitty fuckin' pianist, tho. 'sokay, so's Brian Eno. He's famous for saying he prefers to work with people who don't know how to play because they're more improvisationally free. I don't know that I agree but I can see his point: there are things you do with instruments because everyone does that with them, everyone teaches you to do that with them. It depends on what you want to do.

Korg came out with a synth called the Karma some ten, fifteen years ago. It has an improvisation engine on it. You play a chord in a tempo and it'll give you an improvised bassline to go with whatever your right hand is doing. It's kinda cool? but it also makes everything sound like you're playing the Holiday Inn Lounge on Turnpike 80. Which, let's be honest, is what you're doing. You're not cutting new hits with your Korg Karma you're in a '70s cover band that plays for beer money and now your chops sound like you minored in music (and majored in pipefitting) rather than giving up on piano lessons in 10th grade.

- write the shitty first draft of (code / email / report / …) so that I can use my creative energy only for the important stuff

The reason language breaks up into registers is to exclude segments of society. You don't write in legalese because it's fun, you write in it so that everyone knows you're a lawyer talking to lawyers and judges. It's protective coloration for the payload of what matters, which is why lawyers kept Lotus Word Pro alive long past the point where everyone else switched to Microsoft: it's got a macro function that lets you dump big stupid blocks of legalese into whatever you need whenever you need it. Other professions didn't peacock feather their language nearly so hard as lawyers so they just adapted to whatever's easiest which is usually what comes in the box.

The easier it is to mad-lib this stuff, the more professions with the need to protect their expertise behind register will resort to complication and metaphor. If AI is what makes it easy and accessible, over time the register will shift to be increasingly hostile to AI.