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It's rude to show AI output to people

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Re: It's rude to show AI output to people

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Post by stevekemp »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #66
shreezus wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn is probably the worst culprit. It has always been a wasteland of “corporate/professional slop”, except now the interface deliberately suggests AI-generated responses to posts. I genuinely cannot think of a worse “social network” than that hell hole. “Very insightful! Truly a masterclass in turning everyday professional rituals into transformative personal branding opportunities. Your ability to synergize aut…

Best thing you can do is quit LinkedIn. I deleted my account immediately once I first noticed AI-generated content there.

I guess that makes sense, unless you're single. LinkedIn is the new tinder.

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Post by threatofrain »

pyman wrote: post #111
phito wrote: post #4

I really wish some of my coworkers would stop using LLMs to write me emails or even Teams messages. It does feel extremely rude, to the point I don't even want to read them anymore.

Didn't our parents go through the same thing when email came out? My dad used to say: "Stop sending me emails. It's not the same." I'd tell him, "It's better. "No, it's not. People used to sit down and take the time to write a letter, in their own handwriting. Every letter had its own personality, even its own smell. And you had to walk to the post office to send it. Now sending a letter means nothing." Change is ine…

I mean that's fine, but the right response isn't all this moral negotiation, but rather just to point out that it's not hard to have Siri respond to things.

So have your Siri talk to my Cortana and we'll work things out.

Is this a colder world or old people just not understanding the future?

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Post by lvl155 »

GPerson wrote: post #89
lvl155 wrote: post #38

While I understand this sentiment, some people simply suck at writing nice emails or have a major communication issue. It’s also not bad to run your important emails through multiple edits via AI.

Seems like there are potential privacy issues involved in sharing important emails with these companies, especially if you are sharing what the other person sent as well.

If you work in a big enough organization, they have AI sandboxes for things like this.

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Post by kelseyfrog »

gigatree wrote: post #31

Someone telling you about a conversation they had with ChatGPT is the new telling someone about your dream last night (which sucks because I’ve had a lot of conversations I wanna share lol).

This is the same sentiment I have.

It feels really interesting to the person who experienced it, not so much to the listener. Sometimes it can be fun to share because it gives you a glimmer of insight into how someone else's mind works, but the actual content is never really the point.

If anything they share the same hallucinatory quality - ie: hallucinations don't have essential content, which is kind of the point of communication.

Re: It's rude to show AI output to people

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Post by accrual »

esafak wrote: post #13

Applications could automatically insert subtle icons next to messages that are automatically generated. It wouldn't work for copy-and-pasted text but it's a start.

Maybe even a post-processing step that replaces all spaces with a suitable Unicode character to act as a watermark. There are more sophisticated ways to watermark text that aren't as easily thwarted with a search/replace, but it might work for some low-risk applications.

Re: It's rude to show AI output to people

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Post by jmugan »

guywithahat wrote: post #120
jmugan wrote: post #91

I love the post but disagree with the first example. "I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said: ". That seems totally fine to me. The sender put work into the prompt and the user is free to read the AI output if they choose.

I think in any real conversation, you're treating AI as this authority figure to end the conversation, despite the fact it could easily be wrong. I would extract the logic out and defend the logic on your own feet to be less rude.

Oh, I'm usually trying to gather information in conversations with peers, so for me, it's usually more like, "I don't know, but this is what the LLM says."

But yeah, to a boss or something, that would be rude. They hired you to answer a question.

Re: It's rude to show AI output to people

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

lvl155 wrote: post #38

While I understand this sentiment, some people simply suck at writing nice emails or have a major communication issue. It’s also not bad to run your important emails through multiple edits via AI.

Or are non-native speakers. LLMs can be a godsend in that case.

Re: It's rude to show AI output to people

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Post by chang1 »

I get annoyed when I ask someone a question (work related or not) and they don't know the answer, they will then proceed to tell a prompt for ChatGPT in a stream of consciousness sort of way.

Then I get even more annoyed when they decide to actually use their own prompt, and then read back to me the answer.

I would much prefer the answer "I don't know".

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