Comment by supriyo-biswas

10 hours ago

It remains to be seen whether GenAI only acts as an accelerant of organizational decline, by amplifying the laziness inherent in people.

It’s worse.

Remember the “Prussian general 2x2”? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

AI enables the stupid and diligent. When I get long form emails from people I don’t know well, I assume that 80% of the time it’s AI bullshit. People are having AI respond with bullshit to other people’s bullshit.

I’m actually deliberately adding bad grammar to communications as a hook that you should read it. It hurts my soul.

  • During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered when the teacher answered, "Of course." Some students immediately turned in their exam assuming it would be impossible to pass.