Also there are so many folks, especially on LI, who don't even have fluent English, or decent grammar, and therefore behind the filter of an erudite LLM is an excellent place to stay, pull some levers, and plop out some really compelling word-salad.
That is just the way of the world today. Whether people are doing minimal processing, through SpellCheck or Grammarly, or just prompting an LLM to generate walls of text, they're using assistance to actually find their voice, or filter their own weak voice through something that will win friends and influence more people than they ever could on their own.
I've spent very little time on LinkedIn, but what I have read struck like individuals writing in the voice of a corporate communications department giving a TED talk.
So, given the kind of metrics many corporations are putting in front of employees, I bet there are a lot of people on LinkedIn who strongly believe writing with AI is the company-approved RIGHT THING TO DO(tm).
In what bizarro world would I want to follow a rando, who has absolutely nothing to do with my career, on a platform purportedly designed for like minded people to advance their career/business?
Might as well consider the dog with the most fleas as the “Alpha”!
"ok
Sent from my iPhone."
emails.
Many people in fact don't like doing. They like shutting off their brain. Sitting still and not using their body and letting muscles atrophy and fat pile up. AI is perfectly aligned with this disease inherent in our post survival civilization. These are the people who would have died off in the hunter gatherer era. Now we go against the forces of natural selection and what do you know, lazy nonthinking people everywhere.
But If I send a message with more than one question, there is what feels like a 10% change they will answer all my questions and a 90% chance they will either answer one or none and I’ll just get an “ok”. And I am talking about 5 lines messages not 50 lines.
So I have to send my questions one at a time, wait sometimes minutes to hours for an answer, then send the next one.
Of course I can also call, but often can’t reach them. Or can reach the front desk that doesn’t have the answers. I understand people are busy but it turns something that should be one message into a cat and mouse game
If I peppered someone with a series of questions or worse, bundled unrelated issues into one message, they would all probably be mishandled. I think it was a mismatch of expectations and/or how corporate workers use email apps.
So if I held every message to one topic, one question, things tended to work as expected.
That's what i learned in a big company.
(Not AI, I couldn’t resist!)
Some were low IQ but had power and money. Some were busy. Some did not want to put any additional effort because the relationship permitted them to be informal, lazy, brief.
In person and with contracts they were extremely diligent with their words.
When I get ready to send an E-mail to a SVP or other VIP at work, I agonize over the wording, get others' feedback on it, write a draft, get it reviewed, write another one, make sure all my facts are straight, make sure there's a TLDR up front, make sure it's formal enough but not stuffy, then clench my butt and hit send...
Then you look at the Epstein files, and these E-mails are going to CEOs and heads of state! And they're like:
"yo, wasssup retards!! we doin some kiddy diddling FRIDAY. who in???????? peace out bitch4es"And that is 99.9% of HR, accounting, and every social media related company.
Now, AI has given all these Linkedin psychopaths who did not have a voice because of their affliction a rare kind of superpower to endlessly spew their meaningless dribble.
I cringe every time I have to go on the cesspool that is Linkedin, but forced to since am job hunting.
To the extent that LLMs help this where otherwise people would simply have not spoken up, I think it's OK. Of course, the slopisms are an instant turn-off and limit the reach of those ideas, but at least they're out there now.
Personally I've developed a knack of quickly skimming through the bland language to get a sense of whether there is anything interesting enough to re-read more closely. It's become so ingrained that I don't mind wading through all the noise from all the other lazy, content-free slop to get to that little bit of signal.
The irony is, if one can't ideate or write novels, then why are they writing novels at all?
I would never use AI to write in my native language though
You know, why should i think for myself when someone else does it for me ? /s
Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments.
Quoting from myself there:
"When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone.
If you use an AI tool to write for you instead, you lose all of that."
That seems blindingly self-evident to me, but apparently a lot of folks disagree.
Something else I said:
"Writing is hard because thinking is hard. When you write, you forge your thoughts, distinctions, mental models and even feelings into the clarity of precision that the written word demands. When you outsource your writing to an AI tool, you lose more than you know."
I guess a lot of people don't want to bother with all that.