Post #3220035

2025-11-22 14:32 UTC

@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt I guess that's why doing that for an email to a boss seems less offensive than doing it for an email to a friend. That said, I don't even really think the tech is very good at this type of thing. You will always need to proof-read and edit, and edit and edit. By the time you are done it's the same process. Unless you close your eyes and hit "send" and hope no one notices you sound like a creepy overly friendly creature from an advertisement. And some people are doing this.

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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-11-22 16:15

@futurebird@sauropods.win My wife is incredibly much more productive if she starts with something on the page and can edit it. Almost all her scientific papers started out with me writing some bullshit about the topic and her then writing an entire paper about how wrong I was 😅 anyway now she outsources that to AI! AI took my job! @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

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@macronencer@mastodon.scot 2025-11-22 20:53

@futurebird@sauropods.win @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt "That said, I don't even really think the tech is very good at this type of thing. You will always need to proof-read and edit, and edit and edit. By the time you are done it's the same process." Yep. A colleague of mine used an LLM to shorten an email I was going to send. I had to check it carefully and correct it in three places where it had missed my nuance and actually changed the meaning.

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@KFvMalssen@mastodon.social 2025-11-23 11:32

@futurebird@sauropods.win @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt if you have, like me, typing speed close to talking speed, proofreading an email costs as much time as writing it myself in the first place. So prompting LLM to write it for me is all additional time lost. No thanks, I will write my own mails.

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