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In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @techtakes @fuck_ai

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

damn, man, this is a gutpunch :| I’d be similarly dismayed

your friend who sends you audio recordings of them from various places they’re in sounds like a keeper - it’s great of them to share bits of their world with you in that manner :D

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 6 points 1 week ago

@froztbyte An absolute keeper, indeed!

[-] nigel@snac.lowkey.party 11 points 1 week ago

At a point in my life I too would have made this mistake. I have been oblivious to how the things I did would make others feel.
It is easy to want to write what we think the other person wants to hear from us, when the reality is that a single sentence that a person has taken the time and thought to write, is far more valuable than word noise generated from a plagiarism machine.

I hope she understands, or you get a chance to explain that to her at some point.

oh and a belated happy birthday to you!

CC: @techtakes@awful.systems @fuck_ai@lemmy.world

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 1 week ago

@nigel @techtakes @fuck_ai Oh yes! Thank you! I will explain to her soon, but thank you for commenting! I can’t find it now but someone else was thinking about all the insincere gifts they received from people, but at the moment, even those insincere gifts seem to be more thoughtful, but yes I will explain when it is a propper time.

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

why are so many posters falling over themselves to Dr Phil it up when OP didn't ask for advice, fucking hell..

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 1 week ago

@froztbyte My theory is that they feel better giving advice rather than examining their feelings.

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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ugh, good read yet sad content. The irony of complimenting your writing by using the antithesis of word choice and structure to express emotions. If she was looking to make it easier, then she saw your birthday message as a chore. This is the tech way to have your assistant write and sign your birthday card. It's the exact opposite of consideration, just rude and tacky.

Happy birthday tho! ♥

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 7 points 1 week ago

@inb4_FoundTheVegan Thank you! The truly sad thing is, because I know LLM’s so well, I even think I know the exact prompt she used. There was another person that said, well, she didn’t make it a generic thing. She put in her prompt that you were a writer. It doesn’t make it thoughtful. Thank you though for Yoyr happy Bday wish! I also came across this after so mine. Very similar https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/

[-] webhat@infosec.exchange 9 points 1 week ago
[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 6 points 1 week ago

@webhat @techtakes @fuck_ai Thank you! Cookies and cakes ahoy! Yum!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Happy birthday!

And sorry for your sad experience. Annoying how AI is degrading our supposedly genuine interactions (both by people using it like this, and people interpreting a honest message like AI (I do feel a bit sorry for all the people working in low level customer support who in addition to all the normal bullshit now have to deal with AI accusations for example)).

[-] mahryekuh@fosstodon.org 9 points 1 week ago

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai Happy belated birthday! This post struck a nerve with me because in this case, AI took away one of the last bits of humanity left in our digital communication: a personal message from a real human.

Time and effort are valuable commodities. When your friend offloaded that to an AI, it took away from the value of the message. Maybe they spent time crafting the perfect prompt, but saying “it’s easier” negates that idea.

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 8 points 1 week ago

Thank you! Also, someone else thought the audio friend that sent an audio song to me of happy birthday was also an LLM/AI and that was the actual human one! Yikes! But agreed! Thing is, because I know LLM's super well, I can tell what prompt she used and that just makes me sad because the prompt was something like write a happy birthday email to my writer friend. @mahryekuh @techtakes @fuck_ai

[-] mahryekuh@fosstodon.org 5 points 1 week ago

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai You can make LLM songs but undoubtedly you would have noticed that; that gift sounds lovely, by the way.

Hopefully you and your “AI friend” can work this out together.

[-] whereisk@mstdn.social 8 points 1 week ago

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai “it’s just easier”
I prefer a quick ‘happy birthday, I’m thinking of you and wish you the world’ than 3 pages of AI vomit.

[-] slashdottir@mastodon.online 6 points 1 week ago

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai

Good grief. Can't be long now till they create some kind of AI secretary who will reply to all your emails and send out all the birthday and Christmas cards so you can become completely detached from all your friends and relatives.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Most divorced people in the world pushing the boundary of how effectively one can estrange themselves from their family

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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Happy Birthday dude. This blog post capures the modern online experience uncannily well

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Happy birthday !

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Happy belated birthday!

[-] pteryx@dice.camp 3 points 1 week ago

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai

What a way to lose a friend.

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