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Jeremy's Iron's avatar

When I hear people say “I used ChatGPT to write a cover letter for this job application” or something like that, I get the feeling that the person doesn’t really understand or want to employ the power of writing. It’s like writing is just some series of inscrutable incantations for them and they’re happy to let the computer do it for them. I don’t think they even consider what a reader might think when they read whatever generated text the model spit out.

Recently Microsoft announced some sort of similar AI integration in the Office suite and people were joking that you’d puff up some banal work communication with paragraphs of automatically generated corporate-ese and then the recipient would use their AI to summarize it to what you’d actually meant to say in the first place.

There’s something really cynical and insincere about all of these AI models coming out recently. It’s like a lot of people only want a facsimile of human connection because it’s faster and more predictable.

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Kyle HD's avatar

Holy moly the Captain Marvel image looks FANTASTIC! Re:AI, I’m a social scientist whose research builds interventions for how people can connect and empathize with each other across difference; most talk on AI in my field is just about how students may use it to cheat for classes. I don’t feel the anxiety quite as much, but I also tend to stay away from social media pretty well.

My thought is: people have a need for authenticity (which I also study), and they haven’t yet seen AI creations as authentic enough to what they’re looking for. Human artists aren’t in danger--don’t believe the doom!

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