I do not want AI to "polish" me

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Post by doodpants » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 1:50 PM UTC

I do not want AI to "polish" me
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Re: I do not want AI to "polish" me

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Post by pjc50 » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

You have an individual and unique way of speaking and writing? We're going to have to polish that out with the slop machine, citizen.

Re: I do not want AI to "polish" me

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Post by bloomingkales » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

There is no way in hell anyone who knows me would get that email and not think I’d been abducted

This person cares about not putting up a fake identity. That's pretty cool, but social media has exposed that a large number of people are perfectly fine presenting an illusion. People will have no shame passing off well written things as an output of their talent and hard work. Digital makeup has no bounds.

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Post by waihtis » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

The obsessive need for AI developers to make everything into the most banal, inoffensive version of said thing will probably end up being the biggest roadblock for AI taking over human jobs.

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Post by chias » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

That opening sentence is magical.

Re: I do not want AI to "polish" me

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Post by damidekronik » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

waihtis wrote: post #4

The obsessive need for AI developers to make everything into the most banal, inoffensive version of said thing will probably end up being the biggest roadblock for AI taking over human jobs.

"The obsessive need for AI developers (...)" - Of product product/business people trying to fit into the "AI era". Developers, if given a chance, wouldn't probably built this.

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Post by pipeline_peak » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

The irony is that someone would just use an AI to summarize the long winded polished version.

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Post by benreesman » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

Digital culture was fake and performative and insincere enough before Turboclippy: fuck that with something sharp.

It feels like the whole world is turning into an HR department premised on the ideological axiom that killing one man is a murder but killing a million is a statistic.

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Post by dsr_ » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

Since the standard thing for the marketing side of the industry is to promise blatant absurdities, I'm sure the next big thing will be "Let us maintain your authentic voice by learning from your messages!"

Oops, probably too late.

Re: I do not want AI to "polish" me

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Post by causal » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

I think LLMs are transformative but it's incredible to me how unimaginative most product managers have been. It reminds me of the 90s when people discovered GIFs can be put on web pages so every page had to have a hundred of them. It was tacky, as is most embedded AI.