Comment by crooked-v
10 months ago
I think the attribution itself is a certain form of cowardice. If one is actually confident that a summary is correct they'd incorporate it directly. Leaving in the "Copilot says" is an implicit attempt to weasel out of taking responsibility for it.
It's probably just transparency, because the summary will be written in a different voice and sound AIish either way.
If I were to include AI generated stuff into my communication I'd also make it clear as people might guess it anyway.
But if you haven't personally verified the summary is accurate then you should not share it. And if you have verified it, you don't need to disclose.
I'd push back on this: I wouldn't share something I haven't checked, yet my natural writing style is nothing like Gemini, so having a whole paragraph in a different style in my mail requires a disclaimer (I don't want people double guessing what I'm quoting or if I had some different intent writing that paragraph)
Rewriting it in my own words would clear the issue, but then why am I even using an AI in the first place ?
I see it more as a form of honesty, though maybe also laziness if they weren't willing to edit the summary, or write it themselves.