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I find it useful for when I have to respond to a communication and all I want to say is invective and a curse-laden rant about what a fucking poorly thought out terminal prolapse of an idea that particular thing would be, and I can ask it to reword my arguments in a professional manner that won't get me either fired or committed to supervisory care.

I am one of those people that prior to AI I used the thesaurus for absolutely everything and reworded things a million times myself. Words just slip my mind often and I can never get my intent quite down the first time. I don't know if it's because I'm a non-native speaker or I just overthink things.

It does help for that sometimes, but honestly the stuff it writes just sounds so AI I end up changing it again to sound more like myself anyway. I only really use it for work to cut down on the 3 hours it would've taken me to write an email.

It's an immense privilege that in first world countries all people theoretically have the right to obtain. That's one of the purposes of general education, but through a lot of failures between schools, parents, students, and society at large it's become less universal than it should be.

"Why do I have to keep writing pointless essays about stupid books?" Because you need to be able to interpret a text and communicate clearly in the written word, and these are both harder than it seems. Furthermore, it's often the students who haven't gotten it yet that complain the most. I know I did. I wasn't just frustrated with the books I didn't like or the long hours writing, I was frustrated with how I struggled to really understand how to write naturally and effectively.

And I should add, I'm both (mildly) dyslexic and dyscalcic. I write fairly well if I do say so myself, and I'm an engineer, so these aren't insurmountable challenges

Outlook always suggests I delete and add words because the way I wrote things is “incorrect”, but their suggestions are, to my mind, objectively worse and communicate my thoughts poorly. Over time Microsoft is gaslighting me to think my grammar is terrible.

at work we are recommended to put things through AI to sound more ⚡️E X E C U T I V E ⚡️🔥🔥🔥🤙

so you do something like, "Got new images from design" and it'll rephrase to "Aligned on tactical operations with communications dept and successfully launched adoption of new collateral"

It's been eye-opening to see how much "leadership" is just "heavily reword simple things into complicated language to make them sound more impressive"

there is something in between my brain and my mouth that stops words from reaching my mouth occasionally (i think it's called aphasia) and if you're patient and give me a few minutes i can write a sentence that sounds professional and has all the right words. If i gotta dash of fifty of them in a minute i'm going to sound like an inebriated clown who is speaking their third language. some might be poetic, some might be funny, but they're going to be all over the place as i try to remember what that thing that makes the hard crunchy cold drink stuff tasty drink fuck whats it ICE YES FINALLY SHUT UP

we play the hand we're glorped

Maybe dyslexia can cause that (dunno, I’m not a psych or dyslexic), but anecdotally my dyslexic teacher never seems to have problems wording or explaining things more than any other person. It’s just really obvious when she’s reading aloud from something and starts tripping and mixing up words, and her handouts have weird typos and autocorrect issues that she didn’t see. But she is extremely vocally opinionated on some high level topics, haha.

But I hear the sentiment you’re saying, for people that genuinely do struggle to express the sentiment they’re wanting to convey, I’m sure it’s helpful. I guess the question is, are (general) you doing it because you can’t do it yourself or because you want instant gratification? The process of articulating your thoughts is an important part of understanding them more thoroughly, and that ability will atrophy just due to how brains work if you stop doing it.

Hell, there’s even middle ground here. Set an amount of time to spend on it and really, genuinely try to write it. Even if it’s nothing but bullet point ideas. Then after spending that time struggling, if it’s not usable (just usable! Not perfect!) then send it through the AI, if (general) you must.

I can never write what I intend to say. I'm never really sure of my intent when I sit down to write so that probably has a lot to do with it. I also don't want a machine to write it for me.

I’m with you. I wouldn’t appreciate someone standing over my shoulder trying to guess every word I’m about to write, so why would I tolerate that from a word processor? Maybe we are in the minority, but I take care to pick words and phrases that fit what I want to convey. Having a machine assume it can know what’s in my mind better than I do is nonsense.

There are at least a dozen countries around the world where less than half of residents would be able to read your post no matter what language it was translated into. Which is to say basic literacy, [which should be] a human right, is apparently a privilege in today's world.

Then what you're talking about goes beyond that to a strong command of the language—definitely an awesome power :) we are lucky to be able to do this. (usually, for me, and there’s usually some technological/social bridge for exceptions)