> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume.

This is as long as the article needed to be.

> It’s one where I use AI to write you a thing. Then you have your AI summarize it. Then you have your AI write back. And then my AI summarizes it. Why wasn’t it all just summarized in the first place?

Could not agree more. If you're going to use a prompt that's a few bullets to write me an email just send me the prompt.

Maybe we need a new dismissive shorthand for this? Something like tf;dr

Turing (test) failed; didn't read

There was a cartoon floating around a few weeks ago wherein the sender of an email used an AI to pad out his 3 points into flowing paragraphs, whereupon the receiver used her AI to summarise it ... down to 3 points.

The value add in that scenario is nearly infinite.

Is a birthday e-card insulting because I didn't put in the time to go to Hallmark and put a card in the mail?

Is a card in the mail insulting because I didn't bother to call?

Is a phone call insulting because I didn't offer to take you to dinner?

Is dinner insulting because I didn't get you a gift?

Is my gift insulting because it only cost $30?

Can't please everyone.

Bad take, bad article. Using tools at your disposal to produce things of comparable quality to what you would produce without the tools is not bad etiquette, complaining about other people not putting more time and effort into something they are giving you for free is.

A valid point of criticism, but I do wonder if this only applies to those who can (still) easily spot LLM assisted output.

Many people lack the time or writing skills to produce something elegant by themselves, so for them it's like fake breasts: an upgrade for the less discerning larger part of the target audience, as long as they don't look to closely.

I completed a take-home project for a company I was interviewing with, and the interviewer remarked at how it was obvious my README.md was AI generated. It wasn't.

Everyone's gotten so tired of low-effort AI generated content now that text which looks vaugely AI generated is now dismissed or looked down on. I've begun purposefully introducing minor spelling / grammar errors into text I write and avoiding LLM smells like using 3 examples in a sentence lol

Does anyone have a guide or other suggestions to help make your text look more human?

> And I discovered the pseudo social network that I’d once found cringe is actually full of smart people—who crop up if I’m willing to spend a bit of extra time sharing my writing with them.

Without some heavy sourcing, I am incredibly hesitant to believe this.

The right response is to use AI to write a reply that is verbose and clearly sounds like AI.

> Presenting a friend or colleague with a note an AI wrote is like inviting them over for dinner and microwaving a Stouffer’s. An AI post on LinkedIn is bringing that same microwaved dinner to a potluck. You should be embarrassed in either case!

Hey now, nothing wrong with a Stouffer's, especially for a potluck. Everyone else at the potluck is doing the same thing anyway.

I have noticed that many of the AI generated slop posts intentionally contain grammatical and spelling errors. Sometimes missing or inappropriate words. Clearly this is intentional and designed to make it seem more like a human wrote it, when obviously it was an AI.

I use AI to read articles now so no problem

> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume. You are, by the nature of sharing these automated words, signaling to me that you care less about my time and attention than you do your own. Of course you’re free to believe that as much as you like—in your own head. Just don’t drop it into my inbox or feed. Because that’s rude.

Oh come off it! You seriously expect me to manually write out some formulaic letter, complete with all the required phatic flourishes, just to respect your time? Use a damn AI to summarize it. I'd you're actually plowing though that slop yourself, you have only yourself to blame.