Comment by jaredcwhite

It is an ethical violation for me to receive a message addressed as "FROM" somebody when that person didn't actually write the message. And no, before someone comes along to say that execs in the past had their assistants write memos in their name, etc., guess what? That was a past era with its own conventions. This is the Internet era, where the validity and authenticity of a source is incredibly important to verify because there is so much slop and scams and fake garbage.

I got a text message recently from my kid, and I was immediately suspicious because it included a particular phrasing I'd never heard them use in the past. Turns out it was from them, but they'd had a Siri transcription goof and then decided it was funny and left it as-is. I felt pretty self-satisfied I'd picked up on such a subtle cue like that.

So while the article may be interesting in the sense of pointing out the problems with generic text generation systems which lack personalization, ultimately I must point out I would be outraged if anyone I knew sent me a generated message of any kind, full stop.