> And these AI-fueled proposals aren’t necessarily bad. That’s what makes them so tricky. They’re often plausible, sometimes even smart, but some come with strings. Every idea has costs, trade-offs, resources, and explanations attached. And guess who must explain them? Me. The guy who’s now debating not just people, but people plus the persuasive ghostwriter in their pocket
Don’t spend your time analyzing or justifying your position on an AI-written proposal (which by definition someone else did not spend time creating in the first place). Take the proposal, give it to YOUR AI, and ask it to refute it. Maybe nudge it in your desired direction based on a quick skim of the original proposal. I guarantee you the original submitter probably did something similar in the first place.
You dream of a world where isolation is all that remains. You have attained the outlook of a billionaire, detachment is virtue, every interaction is mediated through your servants.
When people do this in their relationships, marriages fail, friendships are lost, children forget who you were without the veil.
There are already stories like this cropping up every day. Do you really not understand that connecting with other flawed, unpolished people is its own reward? There is beauty and value in those imperfections.
Very poetic but you either misunderstand me or think I intend for my advice to apply all the time, in all situations.
I’m 100% an AI skeptic but also I won’t invest time and emotion replying to communications where it’s clear the other side a priori also didn’t invest at all. Let machines deal with machines and let me deal with humans.
And believe you me, I reserve this for contexts where I’m not jeopardizing my real interaction with someone I care about.
> Do you really not understand that connecting with other flawed, unpolished people is its own reward?
Oh I understand that perfectly - the above sentence shows that it’s you who didn’t understand what I said in the first place.
Understood, then we disagree only about the appropriate response. I opt instead to ignore all messages written by AI. I can even feel myself developing instant blindness to its 'house' style in the same way I stopped being able to see ads in the earlier days of the internet, prior to ublock.
That said, I do have the advantage of effectively absolute financial security, so I'm privileged enough to be choosy about who I interact with. I do understand that sometimes there's no real choice but to wade through slop in the pursuit of a paycheck.
Exactly! I reply to emails for a living, so sadly I can’t afford to ignore the ai-written ones…