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Many comments are saying it's helpful. But what happens when it's widespread, everyone crafting Hallmark type empathic messages to everyone. Or once everyone ha
by firebirdn99 3y ago
Many comments are saying it's helpful. But what happens when it's widespread, everyone crafting Hallmark type empathic messages to everyone. Or once everyone has bots, then most likely they will all be sent straight to spam or something. We will be inundated with such messaging.
- suoduandao2 3y ago"Chatgpt, write an email based on these bullet points!" "Chatgpt, summarize this email into a few bullet points!" Somehow, I doubt we'll notice. The reason we don't send the bullet points email today is that the receiver will think we're angry with them. In University the engineers all needed alcohol as a social lubricant, if chatgpt replaces it I expect we'll trade hangovers for higher electricity bills and carry on.
- fastball 3y agoAnd? What is wrong with being inundated with empathy?
- Levitz 3y agoIt's not actual empathy. It's writing that seems empathic. The problem is that, exposed to enough writing that seems empathic but isn't, a person will learn that empathic writing is not sincere. We lose that as a society in the same way that if I check my email and see a "YOU'VE WON" subject I don't get excited, because I know it's fake. Do we really want that? A world in which when you see an empathic message, the first thing you think of is that it's fake? I find the idea to be quite sad.
- fastball 3y agoYou say that as if it is known fact but I don't think that is a given at all. The converse could be true: maybe being inundated with fake empathy is almost as good as being inundated with the real thing, ala placebo effect (or the studies which have shown that just forcing yourself to smile can actually improve your mood).
- hammyhavoc 3y agoIt isn't necessarily sincere.
- pmoriarty 3y agoI look forward to AI-generated sappy Hallmark-like messages, because they're bound to be better written than the same types of messages most humans write today. The sentiment will be no less fake. It'll just be better written.
- EGreg 3y agoExactly. And if you want that for comments on your forum, we’ve built a prototype here https://app.engageusers.ai https://app.engageusers.ai
- dr_dshiv 3y agoI presume the issue is detecting when the meaning is intended or not. Like if a doctor uses it to communicate their care vs a salesman uses it to get a deal?
- vidarh 3y agoThen if you don't want your messages to read like that, you'll use bots to condense and extract the bits you care about.
- tirpen 3y agoAnd thus we will have invented a lossy rarefaction scheme for communication? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rarefaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rarefaction
- vidarh 3y agoWe already do that during normal communication - people rarely say what they mean in the simplest way possible. We couch the message in all kinds of extraneous details. The tediousness of which is part of why some people want to use LLMs to generate messages for them in the first place. Stripping that out might ironically reduce the need: Of people come to expect their messages to be automatically stripped of fluff, why include it in the first place?
- williamcotton 3y agoIt is possible to learn how to write concisely.
- mattkrause 3y agoYou can learn to write concisely.
- williamcotton 3y agoI see what you’re trying to do there but you should have said “one” instead of “you” to have the same effect!
- mattkrause 3y agoI waffled on whether you/one would be better!