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It's happening everywhere. We have people using AI to generate documents, then using the same AI to read/summarize them. What is the point? The writing itself,
by icedchai 1mo ago
It's happening everywhere. We have people using AI to generate documents, then using the same AI to read/summarize them. What is the point? The writing itself, especially with recent Claude models, is often incredibly awkward.
- spicyjpeg 1mo agoI like to call this phenomenon "reverse compression", or occasionally "depression". It's even lossy and subject to generational loss.
- icedchai 1mo agoHah. "Depression" fits well for a few reasons.
- cameronh90 1mo agoThe logical answer is to send what you would have put into AI. However, terse lists of bullets without any padding or phatic expressions are considered rude. Perhaps previously a long message indicated you'd put time and thought into it. Maybe AI will invert the social signalling, and make conciseness polite. As it should be.
- pixl97 1mo ago>What is the point? What is the point is a question to a whole lot of human practices outside of AI, well, that I should say that AI is pointing out. Huge numbers of us have mostly useless jobs. That's not to say they are completely useless, but maybe like at most 50% of the job is useful. The rest just gets filled with busy work and worthless text generation and TPS reports.
- icedchai 1mo agoAgreed, a ton of white-collar job activity is useless: writing reports nobody wants to write for people who don't actually want to read them anyway. Mass AI-induced unemployment is a real possibility within 5 to 10 years, maybe sooner.
- gonzalohm 1mo agoIt's the wet dream of any CEO. Subscription model for companies to pay to do tasks and subscription model for companies to understand the output of the subscription model. Amazing, they should do another Silicon valley season