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Re:Field Experimental Evidence of AI on Knowledge Worker Pro... by jprete on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:52PM (#39018173)
That kind of text is valuable as a signaling exercise - the author is willing to claim the text as indicating their actual beliefs. Writing it with AI would actually damage the author's credibility since it's no longer their words - although this shouldn't be a problem if the author is carefully checking the text every single time to make sure it represents their position.

The effect would be even worse the first time the author missed a mistake from the AI and had to walk it back publicly. Nobody's going to trust anything they put in writing for a while after that.

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Re:Field Experimental Evidence of AI on Knowledge Worker Pro... by jampekka on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:00PM (#39018283)
There are genres of text that have little to do with the writer's beliefs and are a kind of formality with contents known by all interested parties beforehand. Sort of elaborate prose versions of "I Agree With the Terms and Conditions" textboxes.
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