Comment by ryandrake
2 days ago
> The number of people who I see having E-mail conversations where person A uses an LLM to turn two sentences into ten paragraphs, and person B uses an LLM to summarize the ten paragraphs into two sentences, is becoming genuinely alarming to me.
I remember in the early days of LLMs this was the joke meme. But, now seeing it happen in real life is more than just alarming. It's ridiculous. It's like the opposite of compressing a payload over the wire: We're taking our output, expanding it, transmitting it over the wire, and then compressing it again for input. Why do we do this?
> But, now seeing it happen in real life is more than just alarming. It's ridiculous. It's like the opposite of compressing a payload over the wire: We're taking our output, expanding it, transmitting it over the wire, and then compressing it again for input. Why do we do this?
I assume this is satire.
The guess I've had was that most people were genuinely not reading emails/messages much or paying much attention to what they wrote to begin with, bolstered by the number of times I've tried to convey simple instructions or ask simple questions just to have most of it entirely ignored. I tried all kinds of organization, tried making them very short and direct, but still fruitless. So they don't experience the same loss
We do this because using AI makes you immediately lazy in a way that is difficult to put in words but that anyone who tried can relate to.
We do this because we were impressed that one time the stars aligned and the output was decent. So we write just one more prompt bro in the hope it'll will be better than the latest 10, which ended up a waste of time.
We do this because $boss has been successfully spitting out 7 PowerPoints a day with it, which nobody reads but makes them feel productive, therefore this must be the future, therefore AI use shall be mandated until team productivity improves.