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If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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> And I discovered the pseudo social network that I’d once found cringe is actually full of smart people—who crop up if I’m willing to spend a bit of extra time sharing my writing with them.

Without some heavy sourcing, I am incredibly hesitant to believe this.

Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume. You are, by the nature of sharing these automated words, signaling to me that you care less about my time and attention than you do your own. Of course you’re free to believe that as much as you like—in your own head. Just don’t drop it into my inbox or feed. Because that’s rude.

Oh come off it! You seriously expect me to manually write out some formulaic letter, complete with all the required phatic flourishes, just to respect your time? Use a damn AI to summarize it. I'd you're actually plowing though that slop yourself, you have only yourself to blame.

Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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> And I discovered the pseudo social network that I’d once found cringe is actually full of smart people—who crop up if I’m willing to spend a bit of extra time sharing my writing with them. Without some heavy sourcing, I am incredibly hesitant to believe this.

People don’t hate AI, they just want AI that kisses their assets.

Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume. You are, by the nature of sharing these automated words, signaling to me that you care less about my time and attention than you do your own. Of course you’re free to believe that as much as you like—in your own head. Just don’t drop it into my inbox or feed. Because that’s ru…

It should be required that any AI generated text comes with prompt that created it. So I don’t have to use AI to reverse engineer TLDR.

Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume. You are, by the nature of sharing these automated words, signaling to me that you care less about my time and attention than you do your own. Of course you’re free to believe that as much as you like—in your own head. Just don’t drop it into my inbox or feed. Because that’s ru…

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Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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post #7

The right response is to use AI to write a reply that is verbose and clearly sounds like AI.

And then you have AIs talking to each other slopping junk derived from minimal prompting back and forth. Why have humans at all?

For discernment perhaps? Humans have an authentic connection to the real world.

Re: If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

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post #7

The right response is to use AI to write a reply that is verbose and clearly sounds like AI.

And then you have AIs talking to each other slopping junk derived from minimal prompting back and forth. Why have humans at all? For discernment perhaps? Humans have an authentic connection to the real world.

Well someone has to shovel in all the coal we need to power those AIs
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