Comment by jmull
21 hours ago
Tricking people into thinking you personally wrote an email written by AI seems like a bad idea.
Once people realize you're doing it, the best case is probably that people mostly ignore your emails (perhaps they'll have their own AI assistants handle them).
Perhaps people will be offended you can't be bothered to communicate with them personally.
(And people will realize it over time. Soon enough the AI will say something whacky that you don't catch, and then you'll have to own it one way or the other.)
I think I made it clear in the post that LLMs are not actually very helpful for writing emails, but I’ll address what feels to me like a pretty cynical take: the idea that using an LLM to help draft an email implies you’re trying to trick someone.
Human assistants draft mundane emails for their execs all the time. If I decide to press the send button, the email came from me. If I choose to send you a low quality email that’s on me. This is a fundamental part of how humans interact with each other that isn’t suddenly going to change because an LLM can help you write a reply.