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Comment by squidbeak

4 hours ago

I'm mostly the opposite. I'm glad to see people calling this out. Do we really want it to become normal to offload communication to another entity?

"Claude, I need to send my wife an apology for shagging the secretary. Please make it tender and remorseful."

A person's take on anything isn't their take any more if someone else articulates it, and there's a real risk we slip back to a hired scribe culture, with the multitude volunteering to return to illiteracy because they can't be arsed to type or even speak - beyond brief outlines.

But the case is totally different for organizations and companies. They've always used copy editors to write their blurb, usually in a pasteurized flat business style that was always far removed from individuality and near-identical across organizations. I can't see why using AI in these cases makes any difference.