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I simply do not understand the end game of these sorts of features. Presumably, the idea is to make the other person think you've written the email yourself, a

I simply do not understand the end game of these sorts of features. Presumably, the idea is to make the other person think you've written the email yourself, and you're a "better"/more corporate/more professional writer than you actually are. But once everyone starts using this kind of transformer, so nobody assumes that anyone else is actually writing the content they're sending out -- what's the point?! Who benefits?

coldpie 2y ago
> Who benefits? The team that implemented the feature and hit their quarterly goal and got their full quarterly bonus. The execs who set the quarterly goals will be rewarded by wall street for shipping AI features. In 2 years, when reality has struck and the market has moved on from the AI fad, another team will receive their bonus for lowering COGS by removing this feature. Users' needs are irrelevant to this cycle. Big tech companies need to be broken up into teeny, tiny pieces.
Izkata 2y ago
> Who benefits? Phishers.
rsynnott 2y ago
> Who benefits? The vendor's share price. This is nothing to do with the _users_; it is about cramming 'AI' into as many press releases as possible because it gives the markets the warm fuzzies. No-one wants to use this, and that's really beside the point; for the time being it makes stock price go up. Presumably in a year or so there'll be a new fad, and most LLM-based 'features' will go the way of Clippy.