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It's rude to show AI output to people

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321 points distantprovince | 7 comments | 19 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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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moomoo11 ◴[19 Jul 25 18:23 UTC] No.44618006[source]▶
Why? AI is a tool. Are their messages incorrect or something? If not who cares, they’re being efficient and thus more productive.

Please be honest. If it’s slop or they have incorrect information in the message, then my bad, stop reading here. Otherwise…

I really hope people like this with holier than thou attitude get filtered out. Fast.

People who don’t adapt to use new tools are some of the worst people to work around.

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1. jaredcwhite ◴[19 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44619431[source]▶
If it took you no time to write it, I'll spend no time reading it.

The holier than thou people are the ones who are telling us genAI is inevitable, it's here to stay, we should use it as a matter of rote, we'll be left out if we don't, it's going to change everything, blah blah blah. These are articles of faith, and I'm sorry but I'm not a believer in the religion of AI.

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2. eric_cc ◴[19 Jul 25 21:14 UTC] No.44619464[source]▶
How do you know the effort that went into the message? Somebody with writing challenges may have written the whole thing up and used ai assistance to help get a better outcome. They may have proof-read and revised the generated message. You sound very judgmental.
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3. jaredcwhite ◴[19 Jul 25 21:21 UTC] No.44619527[source]▶
And you sound very ableist. Why should we expect people who may have a cognitive disability of some kind to cloak that with technology, rather than us giving them the grace to communicate how they like on their terms?
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4. moomoo11 ◴[19 Jul 25 23:16 UTC] No.44620374[source]▶
Good luck. If you're an employee remember that you are a expense line item :P
5. sfink ◴[19 Jul 25 23:39 UTC] No.44620516[source]▶
Except you will spend your time reading it, because that's what is required to figure out that it's written with an LLM. The first few times, at least...
6. johnnyanmac ◴[20 Jul 25 00:36 UTC] No.44620834[source]▶
Because often times you know the person behind the message. We don't existing in a vacumm and that will shape your reaction. So yes, I will give more leeway to a co-worker ESL leaning on AI than I will a director who is trying to give me a sloppy schedule that affects my navigation in the company.
7. lucyjojo ◴[22 Jul 25 07:26 UTC] No.44644131{3}[source]▶
because expecting people to be gracious goes against reality.