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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=dony898]Everyone dunks on English majors until they need help writing a single coherent sentence on LinkedIn.[/quote]
I had to write a job description recently and used AI for the first to time to do it. It was pretty dam* good. I just had to tweak it a bit.  I was a bit shocked.

I saw a video of a fake podcast created by Google Gemini for a technical manual.  It was shockingly amazing.[/quote]

I think many, if not most, people find it to be good because they can't write to save their arse so anything that's comprehensible is going to be good.[/quote]

95% of all communication in the business world is simply communicating the equivalent of the chicken crossed the road.

Who cares if your company earnings press release is written well.  It just needs to communicate that revenues were up 5% and earnings increased 10%.

Who cares if advertising copy is well written?  Almost nobody which is why it’s literally being taken over by AI.

Who cares if a Company’s IPO perspectus is well written?  Nobody considering few read them…however you do need to make sure AI doesn’t hallucinate something to cause a lawsuit down the road.

This isn’t about “good” writing…it’s just is it good enough.  That’s all the corporate world cares about.[/quote]

What’s even funnier is the press release and prospectus are written typically by the C-suite or their direct reports, and then edited by the lawyers.  The documents are then reviewed by the paralegals for errors and grammar. Of these individuals, it is the paralegal who is likely to have the English degree and who earns far less than any of the others in the process. [/quote]

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