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I use AI to write professional emails, job applications and to edit my resume. I do this because I cannot for the life of me figure out the neurotypical idea of "professional communication" where you have to toe the edge of lying trying to sell yourself, while not actually seeming directly interested, but you have to still seem interested. Nor can I work out the communication where you have to dance around the subject without ever addressing it. When I write these things myself it takes me actual days, I fucking hate that type of writing, might as well ask me to write an epic in latin.
The people that treat it like Google or trust it inherently or use it for creative or personal communication strike me as odd, to be kindest. One of my friends used it to ask for advice on gardening and it ended up killing a plant.
What advice did it give them? in my recent experience (again just interacting with the google llm via search, i don't go to chatgpt.com or w/e) it's been fairly accurate (i.e. "what the fuck is this little white butterfly leaving yellow oval eggs on my collard greens" and it's like "that's a cabbage white, dawg, you should probably just cover them with netting" but i didn't wanna do that so it suggested Bt or spinosad. I know enough about how those work to know, yea, that'd work, but also the initial netting idea is probably still the best if i weren't lazy), but gardening being what it is sometimes accurate advice still can't make something live yknow
Also i ignore it on various things like it says not to put rocks and shit at the bottom of your pots. "It'll create a perched water table and rot your roots!" shut up robot, i don't care, my pots all drain 100x better with a layer of rocks and then garden fabric before the dirt. And i like watching it trickle out around the rocks 😤
Using it for resume writing is, unfortunately, probably a necessity; with the recent Stanford study showing that companies who use LLM's to screen resumes are biased towards LLM generated resumes, especially the ones using the same LLM as the company uses.