We desperately need some cultural norms and taboos to develop around AI usage.
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
#42Obviously you need to use an AI to summarise the wall of text generated by the AI. Duh.
There’s someone in this thread unironically suggesting this.
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#43Then at the end, "Use AI to make things clearer". NO! STOP USING AI AND JUST TALK!
I have a coworker whose first language isn't English. She uses AI to polish up her writing, particularly long documents. She puts a ton of effort into making sure that it still reads well. Because of this effort her writing is strong and precise. Before AI she made all the obvious mistakes you'd expect from someone who's not a native English speaker. It's very hard to tell that she used AI because she puts so much effort into post-AI copy editing, it's just clear and useful writing. Sure, the occasional non-idiomatic phrase creeps in but those are hard to find.
That's AI writing done right, and it's very different from this other guy I work with who does the whole slop grenade thing.
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#44I love asking someone who sent me a Slack wall of AI text to join a huddle, then ask them deep questions about said wall of text while they struggle because they have no idea what they’re talking about. It seems to encourage folks to be a little more careful about their wall of texts in the future.
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#45I swear most executives can barely read so you're not doing your career any favors sending them more than 150 characters.
In instances where context is important, I have been including a summary with call to action at the start of the message, then include details below to hopefully eliminate back and forth. It helps me be more clear with my point, and most people once they have an action only use the context for reference later.
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#46Then at the end, "Use AI to make things clearer". NO! STOP USING AI AND JUST TALK!
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#47That’s interesting. When I use AI to help me write chat messages it’s almost always, “make this shorter,” or “clean this up”
Why do you use an AI to write chat messages? Either you have to give the AI the points you want to convey, then just put those points in a message. Or you don't have anything to convey, then don't post a message. I don't see why anyone would want a slopified version of whatever it was that I had to say.
> I don't see why anyone would want a slopified version of whatever it was that I had to say.
Lots of people lack confidence around their writing, and many people (particularly in tech) are not english native speakers. I can definitely see both of those groups getting use out of AI assistance in writing.
That being said, I sometimes use AI to see if I've missed anything, but the last thing I'll give up to our future AI overloads is writing text, as I enjoy it.
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#48Then at the end, "Use AI to make things clearer". NO! STOP USING AI AND JUST TALK!
I have a coworker whose first language isn't English. She uses AI to polish up her writing, particularly long documents. She puts a ton of effort into making sure that it still reads well. Because of this effort her writing is strong and precise. Before AI she made all the obvious mistakes you'd expect from someone who's not a native English speaker. It's very hard to tell that she used AI because she puts so much ef…
Then a better recommendation should be to use specialized AI proofreading tools, such as Kagi Translate's proofread feature.
Yeah, it uses AI, but the "harness" around it forces you to use it only to improve your text, not sloppify it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you think this is AI slop?...
> You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document. > It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness. These are particular sentences I find questionable. Would you write that way? I certainly wouldn't. GPTZero is by no means perfect, but it agreed this was likely generated.
Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.
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#50now I know what to call it, thanks