My coworkers who use AI are getting dumber by the day

[Anonymous]

"I'm sorry, Doug, but I can't make sense of this email. Can you rewrite it or explain to me what you're trying to say?"

[Anonymous]

This is one of the main reasons I left a recent job. Everyone was using ChatGpt for everything, and almost sort of bragging about it because they thought it made them seem in unafraid of technology. The product was so embarrassing. It felt like a constant South Park episode, with everyone leaning hard into complete sh*t, with more and more people falling in line every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I'm sorry, Doug, but I can't make sense of this email. Can you rewrite it or explain to me what you're trying to say?"

This type of thing just gets me another AI response, or an absolutely infuriating conversation because the person doesn't even know what they wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

If this is your team then that is exactly what you tell them. "Send me the bullet points not the AI memo"

This doesn't really need to be crowd sourced.

I cant relate btw, AI in my field makes summaries and emails better. Its a small part of our job but I like when my team uses it.

Sorry, sounds like your team started off on the wrong side of the bar. What field are you in, exactly?

[Anonymous]

Call em out in person at next team meeting. “Bob, in your memo you raised X inane point. Can you please explain to us how that relates to project? I don’t believe we’ve been briefed on that before.” Look expectant and interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm sorry, Doug, but I can't make sense of this email. Can you rewrite it or explain to me what you're trying to say?"

This type of thing just gets me another AI response, or an absolutely infuriating conversation because the person doesn't even know what they wrote.

OMG, imagine how bad your team is if AI sounds better. I’m so sorry, I’d probably have murdered them already.

[Anonymous]

Boring topic

[Anonymous]

So many adults, even in white collar jobs, are illiterate or low-literacy. The pandemic shift to telework put pressure on them because asynchronous work required more reading/writing. I know I should be happy that AI can help them digest incoming text but I wish it wasn't used for outgoing text.

[Anonymous]

Stop complaining, get with the times boomers. AI will take over your jobs in the next 10 years. Complaining about it is not going to fix the situation.