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It's rude to show AI output to people

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321 points distantprovince | 5 comments | 19 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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phito ◴[19 Jul 25 17:28 UTC] No.44617442[source]▶
I really wish some of my coworkers would stop using LLMs to write me emails or even Teams messages. It does feel extremely rude, to the point I don't even want to read them anymore.
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benatkin ◴[19 Jul 25 17:34 UTC] No.44617500[source]▶
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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echelon ◴[19 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44617529[source]▶
Wow. What a good giveaway.

I wonder what others there are.

I occasionally use bullet points, emdashes (unicode, single, and double hyphens) and words like "delve". I hate it think these are the new heuristics.

I think AI is a useful tool (especially image and video models), but I've already had folks (on HN [1]!) call out my fully artisanal comments as LLM-generated. It's almost as annoying as getting low-effort LLM splurge from others.

Edit: As it turns out, cow-orkers isn't actually an LLMism. It's both a joke and a dictation software mistake. Oops.

[1] most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482876

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1. furyofantares ◴[19 Jul 25 17:45 UTC] No.44617610[source]▶
Maybe I'm misunderstanding - but I don't think LLM's say cow-orkers. Or is that what you mean?
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3. ffsm8 ◴[19 Jul 25 17:56 UTC] No.44617728[source]▶
As this error seems to be going back a lot longer then LLMs existed (17 yrs), it could be an auto in-correct situation.

Might be incorrectly saved in some spell check software and occasionally rearing it's head

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4. chaps ◴[19 Jul 25 17:58 UTC] No.44617754[source]▶
https://ask.metafilter.com/15649/coworkers-why/amp

This goes back a loooooong while.

5. furyofantares ◴[19 Jul 25 18:00 UTC] No.44617775[source]▶
Oh I see the confusion then. It's not an error, it's a joke, and a very old one at that. Like saying Micro$oft.