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I knew I wasn’t interested in A.I. for a while now, but I think I can finally put it into words.

A.I. is supposed to be useful for things I’m not skilled at or knowledgeable about. But since I’m not skilled at or knowledgeable about the thing I’m having A.I. do for me, I have no way of knowing how well A.I. accomplished it for me.

If I want to know that, I have to become skilled at or knowledgeable about the thing I need to do. At this point, why would I have A.I. do it since I know I can trust I’m doing it right?

I don’t have a problem delegating hiring people who are more skilled at or more knowledgeable about something than me because I can hold them accountable if they are faking.

With A.I., it’s on me if I’m duped. What’s the use in that?

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[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

I have some experience on the letter receiving side to share. I have a work colleague who recently decided it was a good idea to answer inquiries in MS Teams or email with LLM generated text. It was very obvious because the wording was too business-polished polite, was too verbose and did not sound like anything you would answer to a colleague ever. While the content was technically fine, the tone was missed by a mile. Also the generous use of the infamous em dash and unnecessary exclamation marks gave it away immediately.

That poses a problem. If you do that to a person you're working with and they immediately know you're serving them AI slop because you're too lazy to be bothered with basic human interaction they WILL be offended. Same goes for customers if they know you personally or expect a human on the other side.

Humans are getting better at identifying AI garbage faster than LLMs improve. Because humans are still excellent at intuitive pattern recognition. Noticing that something is off intuitively is an evolutionary advantage that might save our ass.