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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 40 minutes ago

todays LLM seems to spit out cringy overexcited text though. may also include emojis.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Don't badmouth Autistic people. They're way more adept at emailing than a stupid LLM.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 9 hours ago

Emotion and warmth is unnecessary bloat, I can answer their email with a short sentence so I will.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

I've been using it for the opposite!

"Edit this email to a 'kind tone' for me." The clanker knows WTF that means better than I do.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

Sent from Proton Mail? Def autistic.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

lol I also had someone accuse me of pasting AI output into my emails.

People are now going to have to dumb down their writing not because it's too difficult to understand, but because it might be confused with GenAI slop.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

That, or stop obsessing with ai witchhunting

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

People are now going to have to dumb down their writing

I can't help but think about the movie Idiocracy. Mike Judge might be a prophet.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

My autistic colleague gets to me read her emails before she sends them in case they need "humanising" 😂 This was after a guy said her tone was aggressive and unpleasant (it wasn't, it just wasn't fluffed out and he was a big baby).

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh, I so get this. I have three writing styles: too concise, too verbose, and romance novel. I really need a fourth between concise and verbose, but I'm garbage at it for topics more complex than this comment.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago

Threadiverse comment (born from reddit) is definitely a style lol I do it too. 

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know man. Most ai is way to overly bubbly and friendly for me. So I'd be suspicious if anyone sends a super warm embellished email instead of getting straight to the point.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 12 points 13 hours ago

This screenshot is from 2023, if I remember correctly LLMs were not that bubbly at that time.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Right? And I don't bold random words. For some reason this one really cheeses me. My eyes glaze over as soon as I see that in an email.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, do you never communicate with boomers?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

#PLEASE REPLY APPROVED IF APPROVED

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

The most annoying email to receive, the one that shouldn't exist.

"That's not how approvals work Karen, you need to open a ticket. Like the last time I told you this."

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao I am sure that more millennials and Gen z folks use AI in their emails than I realize but it's the boomers and Gen x who largely fail to remove the telltale formatting, in my experience.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Gen X and maybe Boomers were taught to type and write formally and we haven’t forgotten. AI was trained on us.

Cue the Office Space meme about why I shouldn’t change because he’s wrong.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

Younger millennial here, we were taught formal at school then had to unlearn all that shit in the workplace.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Lol when your 'tism is so strong people think you're a clanker. Love it.

[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Ever since the ai bubble started I realised that data was always human... He just didn't believed in himself because he never met another autist.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Which is wild because he hung out with engineers all the time and his best friend was an engineer. I'm an engineer with audhd and no joke I'm pretty sure like 90% of the engineers I work with are some form of neurodivergent. I know for a fact for like half of them because they told me.

[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

I think often the same about people in my it field.

But yeah engineer are usually more chill people. Maybe I should change the field :D

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He wasn't human. He had flashing lights inside his head; humans don't have that. He always had emotions, though, but the humans of the 24th century were so intolerant of anything that diverged from their self-professed ideal that they wouldn't acknowledge them.

[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Okay sorry wrong wording because English inst my main language.

I mean he always wanted to know how it is to be human / think as a human?

But your post reminds me that i still want to read "The Bicentennial Man" from asimov :)

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly feel left out lol. Am I not autistic enough??

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Don't worry. Just take some more Acetaminophen and you'll gain super autism 😂

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Heh. Darn autocorrect.

[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

It's Tuesday, not Friday.