Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are AI-assistant-enriched coffee catch ups an actual thing that's happening or is OP inventing scenarios to be mad at?
I've had now-ex friends send me unsolicited ai-slop catch-up messages summarizing their life "since we last spoke".
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#52Just saying no sounds simple enough. But social pressure makes that very difficult.
The normalisation of constant recording really has me worried, everything is so monitored now. Privacy just keep get more and more eroded for the sake of minor convenient features and products. At what point do we start deciding these trade off are no longer worth it? And is it even too late to make that decision?
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#53I've had medical students in the room when doctors do all kinds of checks. I somehow didn't have any reservations about that either.
I've had medical students in the room when doctors do all kinds of checks. I somehow didn't have any reservations about that either. Medical students are covered by rafts of privacy laws that will end their careers if violated. The modern tech industry runs on privacy violation. The two are not comparable.
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#54> Let's imagine for a second that the whole AI craze doesn't exist, but you still would want to real-time note-taker, what would you do? Indeed, you bring a literal third person to the table. That will just be sitting there, listening in on your conversation and writing everything down. That's what secretaries were, and this happened in pretty much every significant business meeting for a long long time.
This article and the one it is responding to are explicitly talking about non-business meeting contexts. They are talking about personal conversations, medical appointments and much more casual business contexts like informal interviews. Places where there would never have been a secretary present.
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#56> How fucking creepy is that?! How fucking awkward is that? And before you start talking with whoever you're catching up with, you ask "You don't mind, do you?" In living memory, I had a HUMAN notetaker in important meetings. After secretaries left the world went to hell and topic experts and engineers were expected to have social graces, everything got worse. We invented new religions like agile to make up for a goo…
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Secretaries are compelled by the same privacy and disclosure laws as doctors - AI notetaking apps may or may not be (it'll take examination of the product on a case by case basis) and the public is, at this point, used to AI companies blatantly lying about privacy, confidentiality, training sources, reuse of conversations and pricing - the good faith is gone as a default and in a setting like a HCP that is a terrible…
> Secretaries are compelled by the same privacy and disclosure laws as doctors What HIPAA-like law is there for secretaries?
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#58> Let's imagine for a second that the whole AI craze doesn't exist, but you still would want to real-time note-taker, what would you do? Indeed, you bring a literal third person to the table. That will just be sitting there, listening in on your conversation and writing everything down. That's what secretaries were, and this happened in pretty much every significant business meeting for a long long time.
So, NO, this is not “what secretaries were”
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#59Now come the replies saying, "as if human note-takers never made mistakes!"