[rdmuser]

Personally I find that I prefer badly written english or auto-translated stuff written in languages foreign to me over ai generated or even just ai polished works I've seen. There is just so much more character, depth and variance there vs ultra ai generic or slop text.

That being said this project seems focused on content farms not people who just need a little help writing so this whole conversation is a bit of a side tangent.

[flkiwi]

One of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate. He’s recently discovered that he can put an idea in Copilot and have it generate an email. So now instead of brief, correct, but difficult to parse emails we receive 20-paragraph, bulleted, formatted OpenAI slop. It’s been a very strange thing to see, like someone getting extraordinarily bad cosmetic surgery.

[ploum]

"One of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate."

I cannot imagine what it means. To me it reads like "I know someone who can run very fast but has no legs."

[toofy]

> like someone getting extraordinarily bad cosmetic surgery.

this is such an incredible way to phrase what it all looks like to the rest of us. and i suspect the people doing it, just like those with obvious cosmetic surgery, have no idea how weird and off it looks.

[SpicyLemonZest]

I have a similar coworker, but he's not great at prompting, so 10% of the time the AI version of himself makes confident assertions that he did not intend and are clearly not true. Genuinely no idea what I'm supposed to do about it.

[dawnerd]

Sam, and when you ask them a deeper question about it on a call they usually have no idea. It’s making people very lazy.

[wolvoleo]

Yeah I hate it when people do that and I always call them out on it.

Unfortunately our company is trying to be "AI First" so they'll just point to that and continue their bullshit.

Our company literally promotes AI slop over personally made content even if it's mediocre crap. All they care about is rising usage numbers of things like copilot in office.

[lifthrasiir]

I mean, I know it is probably tongue in cheek but that never-asked-question was particularly out of place. Massively generated AI contents are usually not THAT thoughtful anyway.