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I don't really want to read (or "write") a bunch of impersonal junk written by AI. Can we skip this phase of technology? Edit: Maybe this will inspire the nex

I don't really want to read (or "write") a bunch of impersonal junk written by AI. Can we skip this phase of technology? Edit: Maybe this will inspire the next wave of tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers

monkeynotes 4y ago
Piles of impersonal junk created by humans at work. People lope through life, especially work life, a lot. If you are doing repetitive welcome emails they are almost guaranteed to be impersonal, I don't think anyone could rinse and repeat personalized emails for hundreds of people without burning out.
- waboremo 4y ago
  Just because lots of people do it, doesn't mean it has to continue to be done. If you're growing so fast you're sending hundreds of emails in a short time span, then maybe you should replace a pseudo-personal ai-written "welcome email" for new hires with something that scales better and feels personal.
  - monkeynotes 4y ago
    "Feels personal" is the problem that AI solves, isn't it? I mean there is a difference between "feels personal" and "is authentically personal". AI can definitely do the "feels". Besides that, it's not about how rapid you need to send these emails out. It's about how often it's done. If you had to write birthday cards to people you barely know every day, maybe it's only one a day, it's going to get rinse and repeat very quickly. All the ways of saying "have a great day" are going to get exhausted and whoever is writing it is going to feel insincere in a short amount of time. So why not just have the AI write this sort of thing? Slack bots welcome you to slack channels, when your email is set up there is a default welcome message. No one really cares, they just want to feel welcomed by something to break the ice. I don't think anyone really gives a stuff about how the message is written as long as it's honest. If I joined a company and the welcome email was signed off with "You friendly welcome bot", I'd be happier than some sort of boilerplate cut and paste message signed by a real person pretending they aren't writing the same thing for the 5th year in their job.
laurentlb 4y ago
Well, they also develop AI to summarize the AI-generated text... So we'll end up with this: Person A: write a thank you note to the team AI: [long text] Person B: summarize the text AI: Person A says thank you.
- notpachet 4y ago
  A perfect two-sided market!
mupuff1234 4y ago
Aren't most corporate communication already impersonal junk?
magicink81 4y ago
Whatever gets us to successive waves "tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers" is fine by me!
VladimirGolovin 4y ago
Exactly. I would honestly prefer blunt, straightforward, de-GPTified communication style. I hate the idea of wasting my time on reading substance-free filler, regardless of whether it was written by an AI or not.
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  That's the thing I hate most about talking to call centres. The useless insincere filler talk.

monkeynotes 4y ago

Piles of impersonal junk created by humans at work. People lope through life, especially work life, a lot. If you are doing repetitive welcome emails they are almost guaranteed to be impersonal, I don't think anyone could rinse and repeat personalized emails for hundreds of people without burning out.

waboremo 4y ago
Just because lots of people do it, doesn't mean it has to continue to be done. If you're growing so fast you're sending hundreds of emails in a short time span, then maybe you should replace a pseudo-personal ai-written "welcome email" for new hires with something that scales better and feels personal.
- monkeynotes 4y ago
  "Feels personal" is the problem that AI solves, isn't it? I mean there is a difference between "feels personal" and "is authentically personal". AI can definitely do the "feels". Besides that, it's not about how rapid you need to send these emails out. It's about how often it's done. If you had to write birthday cards to people you barely know every day, maybe it's only one a day, it's going to get rinse and repeat very quickly. All the ways of saying "have a great day" are going to get exhausted and whoever is writing it is going to feel insincere in a short amount of time. So why not just have the AI write this sort of thing? Slack bots welcome you to slack channels, when your email is set up there is a default welcome message. No one really cares, they just want to feel welcomed by something to break the ice. I don't think anyone really gives a stuff about how the message is written as long as it's honest. If I joined a company and the welcome email was signed off with "You friendly welcome bot", I'd be happier than some sort of boilerplate cut and paste message signed by a real person pretending they aren't writing the same thing for the 5th year in their job.

laurentlb 4y ago

Well, they also develop AI to summarize the AI-generated text... So we'll end up with this: Person A: write a thank you note to the team AI: [long text] Person B: summarize the text AI: Person A says thank you.

notpachet 4y ago
A perfect two-sided market!

mupuff1234 4y ago

Aren't most corporate communication already impersonal junk?

magicink81 4y ago

Whatever gets us to successive waves "tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers" is fine by me!

VladimirGolovin 4y ago

Exactly. I would honestly prefer blunt, straightforward, de-GPTified communication style. I hate the idea of wasting my time on reading substance-free filler, regardless of whether it was written by an AI or not.

brokenmachine 4y ago
That's the thing I hate most about talking to call centres. The useless insincere filler talk.