You joke, but some companies are pushing this idea unironically by putting "use AI to expand a short message into a bloated mess" and "use AI to turn a bloated mess into a brief summary" into both sides of the same product. Good job everyone, we've invented the opposite of data compression.
Reminded me of this - an URL lengthener: https://looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Great cartoon with comment about this problem:
https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
We could call it “bsencode.
The next HTTP standard should include `Transfer-Encoding: polite` for AI-enabled servers and user agents.
Sadly, it might not be ironic. I've encountered many people (particularly software engineers and other tech bros) who assume most written language is mostly BS/padding, and assume the only real information there is what you get get from a concise summary or list of bullet points.
It's the kind of incuriosity that comes from the arrogance from believing you're very smart but actually being quite ignorant.
So it wounds like one of those guys took their misunderstanding and built and sell tools founded on it.
of course they are. that way they can sell both the shovels and the shit.