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Re:Proof of care in the age of AI by miles_matthias on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:10AM (#48907183)
I love this problem and think it's super important. I've similarly noticed myself using a whiteboard to think critically for a while and then take a picture of the whiteboard as proof of deep thought, even if the next step is AI supplemented (a doc, a video, etc).

I've also started noticing people annotating a whole doc "written by humans" to try to convey effort and care. That's fine for some things but do that too often and a reader will be left with two thoughts:

1. Did they actually write this by hand? No way 2. Should they have written some of this with AI? Seems like a waste of time formatting some of this when they could've been spending their time thinking critically

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Re:Proof of care in the age of AI by b40d-48b2-979e on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:30AM (#48907510)
What do you mean "no way"? We've written long texts for as long as we've been writing as a species.
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Re:Proof of care in the age of AI by psd1 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:39AM (#48907655)
Not GP, but consider the view from the inside of a feckless pleb's skull. Effort is to be avoided, so its needless expenditure is unrelatable.
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Re:Proof of care in the age of AI by miles_matthias on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:40PM (#48910394)
it's not that it's completely unbelievable, but I could see people having doubts considering:

1. AI exists and is widely used 2. A person only has so much bandwidth. If they put out 10 docs in a day, did they really hand write them all?

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