Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha...
by frumper on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:06PM
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You ask for a real world use case, it saves people time/energy and has value to them. You respond by saying it's bullshit and they're lazy, but the fact is there is a lot of communications like that in the world. Not everything needs to be a Pulitzer prize email that evokes monumental emotions in your soul. Sometimes you just need to convey some simple information in a general format
Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha...
by wpietri on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:04PM
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Sure, but you haven't grappled with the heart of my point, whether this is better for the readers as well.
And this is a straw man:
> Pulitzer prize email that evokes monumental emotions
There's nothing wrong with a plain and simple email. Indeed, I think that's generally better unless the writer finds it worth the time to write something fancier.
And that goes double for anything that is supposed to be meaningful human connection. E.g., after my mom died, I got a number of nice notes of condolence from people. I appreciated them. If any of them had felt machine-generated, that person would be dead to me.
So my general feeling about the composition case is that it is going to vastly enable the generation of documents that are, to one degree or another, bullshit. And I don't think that's a net positive for society. It's not like we had a bullshit shortage previously.