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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I disagree. You should see the unprofessional emails and memos that Doge sends me on a daily basis. Good writing matters. [/quote]
Yes, there are some really bad writers in the professional world.  But, the vast majority write well enough to understand the meaning.[/quote]

I believe you mean that the vast majority write well enough to make their meaning understood. I certainly hope they understand the meaning of what they themselves have written. So the key is actually the reader being smart enough to figure out what the poorly written information means despite the writer's incompetence; not that the writer "writes good enough."

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