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This is, obviously, a very insensitive use of ChatGPT, based on our current social customs, where authenticity and genuine effort is expected in these sorts of
by jawns 4y ago
This is, obviously, a very insensitive use of ChatGPT, based on our current social customs, where authenticity and genuine effort is expected in these sorts of communications.
But there is one social situation where people really don't seem to object to being fed unoriginal, mass-marketed communication, even in very vulnerable circumstances.
I'm referring to the exchange of greeting cards.
When you lose a loved one and receive a sympathy card, or when you're going through a tough time and receive a "thinking of you" card, it doesn't really matter that the card giver is using someone else's flowery language because they couldn't think of the right words themselves.
In fact, there's an implied humility involved: "I'm not so good with words, but you deserve good words, so I obtained them from a professional wordsmith at Hallmark."
Perhaps down the line, social expectations will change in a way that acknowledges that people might turn to LLMs to put into words things they would like to say, but fear they cannot say well enough.
- juujian 4y ago> based on our current social customs, where authenticity and genuine effort is expected in these sorts of communications I work at a university and I expect exactly zero authenticity and genuine effort in any communication from administrators. It's sad boy not surprising that they would find a seat warmer for a that position.
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- cuttysnark 4y agoMade me think of Joaquin Phoenix's job in Her: > Theodore Twombly is a lonely, introverted man who works for a business that has professional writers compose letters for people who are unable to write letters of a personal nature themselves[0] Thinking about it now, it's sort of funny how in that imagined future, humans are writing personal letters for others, when the technology that makes OS1 possible, exists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)
- dTal 4y agoYou may enjoy the satirical short story "Down Pens", written in 1914 by Saki, which extends this concept to thank-you letters for Christmas presents: https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/down-pens https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-st...