Both of the texts are suboptimal in different ways. The original text is:

  im interested in this place - do you allow dogs?

Some readers will assume the writer is not well educated because "im" should be capitalized and there should be an apostrophe. Other readers will notice the use of a hyphen, which is not very common in written text; it reveals that the writer may actually be educated but writing quickly. A well educated reader will see both of those signals and recognize that this is too little information to reliably judge the writer.

The AI version of the text is overly formal and verbose, making it clear that the writer does not wish to reveal their level of education. I think that's the reason people might be interested in this.

Its interesting when all you seem to factor in is level of education, implying it's the most important metric for selecting tenants. I'd contend its hardly relevant.

My only gut impressions is the first seems rather nonchalant, which is sort of strange when entering a presumably expensive contract. The longer response just feels very boilerplate to the point where I'd question if its not the opening to a blanket scam message.

I guess an important takeaway is that everyone perceives interactions in different ways and that's really why this whole thing is relevant.

I think of it more from the writer's perspective. In my experience, a large number of people shy away from writing anything because they feel they cannot write in a way that makes them sound smart. (And if they're not smart, they believe the recipient will not be interested in helping them.) I think there's value in tech companies helping people overcome that fear.

I think you've found a legitimate use for this. (As a stopgap measure, for better education.)

Sadly, I don't think that will be the majority of the use.

Also, if this were the target use case, the use case could be adapted to the larger problem of tutoring/coaching feedback, to help the person learn and improve, not "write my essay for me, I don't much care what it says, just make me look smart".

I think the apartment writing is symptomatic of the extreme, highly educated, San Francisco bubble many live in.

The people I know in real estate are not reading Hemingway on the weekend and appreciate fine writing. They are blue collar guys with good business sense and good at fixing housing.

The writing style of the tenant matters to them zero.

"You can write a proper restaurant review for Benu or Birdsong along with writing a good inquiry into getting that apartment in Presidio Heights you always wanted"

The AI version of the text has me expecting that the next reply will be an explanation that they are a Nigerian prince and will be paying me twice my asking price but that I will need to cash the first check and send half the money to an escrow holder to prove that I am trustworthy.

Yeah, nothing about this looks necessary or advisable. The only people who want this are the Google PMs who have to “integrate AI” by Q2.

Are we leaving the era when adtech and surveillance by Google were things we could look past, because they mitigated it with some older-era good things?

(I still love the 3D view in Google Maps.)

It is always telling when they can't even come up with good example uses from the entire space of possible uses

"leave a well-written review for a restaurant, craft a friendly RSVP for a party, or make a formal inquiry about an apartment rental.”

That is what the world needs. More restaurant reviews.