[pveierland]

One bothersome aspect of generative assistance for personal and public communication not mentioned is that it introduces a lazy hedge, where a person can always claim that "Oh, but that was not really what I meant" or "Oh, but I would not express myself in that way" - and use it as a tool to later modify or undo their positions - effectively reducing honesty instead of increasing it.

[chii]

> where a person can always claim that "Oh, but that was not really what I meant"

that already happens today - they claim autocorrect or spell checks instead of ai previously.

I don't accept these as excuses as valid (even if it was real). It does not give them a valid out to change their mind regardless of the source of the text.

[Mordisquitos]

Arguably, excusing oneself because of autocorrect is comparable to the classic "Dictated but not read" [0] disclaimer of old. Excusing oneself because an LLM wrote what was ostensibly your own text is more akin to confessing that your assistant wrote the whole thing and you tried to pass it off as your own without even bothering to read it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictated_but_not_read

[pveierland]

Yep! However the problem will increase by many orders of magnitude as the volume of generated content far surpasses the content created by autocorrect mechanisms, in addition to autocorrect being a far more local modification that does not generate entire paragraphs or segments of content, making it harder to excuse large changes in meaning.

I agree that they make for poor excuses - but as generative content seeps into everything I fear it will become more commonly invoked.

[kaffekaka]

Never in my life would I accept that as a valid excuse. If you sent the mail, committed the code or whatever, you take responsibility for it. Anything else is just pathetic.

[red75prime]

Are you embracing the fundamental attribution error?

[wiseowise]

You must be a delightful person to work with.

> If you sent the mail, committed the code or whatever, you take responsibility for it. Anything else is just pathetic.

Have you discussed this with your therapist?