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It's rude to show AI output to people

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321 points distantprovince | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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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. sfink ◴[19 Jul 25 23:36 UTC] No.44620504[source]▶
They are being efficient with their own time, yes, but it's at the expense of mine. I get less signal. We used to bemoan how hard it was to effectively communicate via text only instead of in person. Now, rather than fixing that gap, we've moved on to removing even more of the signal. We have to infer the intentions of the sender by guessing what they fed into the LLM to avoid getting tricked by what the LLM incorrectly added or accentuated.

The overall impact on the system makes it much less efficient, despite all those "saving [their] time" by abusing LLMs.