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.
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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.
Sorry, do you never communicate with boomers?
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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."
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.
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.
Younger millennial here, we were taught formal at school then had to unlearn all that shit in the workplace.
I'm geriatric millennial so I also write formally and use bold, italic and underline in written communication. Oh, and lots of numbered lists!! However, AI applies it differently than I've ever seen humans do it, and it doesn't make sense to me. So lump me right in there with the not wanting to change because AI is wrong.
This screenshot is from 2023, if I remember correctly LLMs were not that bubbly at that time.
Lol when your 'tism is so strong people think you're a clanker. Love it.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 :)
I honestly feel left out lol. Am I not autistic enough??
Don't worry. Just take some more Acetaminophen and you'll gain super autism 😂
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Heh. Darn autocorrect.
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).
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.
Threadiverse comment (born from reddit) is definitely a style lol I do it too.
Sent from Proton Mail? Def autistic.
Emotion and warmth is unnecessary bloat, I can answer their email with a short sentence so I will.
Why long mail when short mail work
todays LLM seems to spit out cringy overexcited text though. may also include emojis.
I have a coworker that writes exactly like that. Emojis and all. In professional emails to clients. They have a footnote that they are not an AI. But I doubt anyone gets that far. Their emails are about 4 pages long to say something like “no”.
damn I hope they just play a corporate character or at least whoever friends with them finds it fun enough. I also sometimes tend to overexplain/overshare to explain simple things but not with LLM language.
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.
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.
That, or stop obsessing with ai witchhunting
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.
Don't badmouth Autistic people. They're way more adept at emailing than a stupid LLM.
It's Tuesday, not Friday.
I have a family member that works with authors. This happens to her regularly.
Would've been great if they'd said "See you next Tuesday" instead.
So which one is he?
Back before 7cups went to shit I used to volunteer there as a listener, taking chats from peers about their mental health.
A few lines into the chat I'd often get asked if I'm human. "Barely", I'd think to myself, and then I'd reply with a simple "Yes".
Sometimes the person would go on to request that I chat with them as a friend, and not as a professional. Which, of course, I'd struggle to accommodate as much as possible while simultaneously trying to explain that that's just how I communicate 🫠