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Do you refuse to read LLM slop?
If a body of text has an em dash, I am not reading it. Not because "if you weren't arsed to write it, I'm not arsed to read it", okay a bit of that, but more so I have never read a piece of text that simultaneously contained an em dash and was good.
My employer forcing LLM use (justifiably so for some employees) IS NOT HELPING. https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/123tyge/the_future_of_communication/
I can feel a sort of fatigue setting in for me. Talking to an LLM for hours a day is not effortless, I feel my social battery is drained much more so.
Conjecture: AI in the hands of those who don't have a coherent mental model of what actual productive work is (most white collar employees), is a net negative as they pollute the communication channels with more noise, and find themselves going in the wrong direction, faster. The mass effects of this give me the heeby jeebies.
Personally I mostly use LLMs as a semi-intelligent rubber ducky, or for generating low-complexity boilerplate code that I don't want to write. It can be useful to bounce ideas off a LLM instead of interrupting one of my coworkers.
It is very annoying to get a lengthy email that is clearly AI generated. Generally they are very low information density and just waste the recipients' time.
The one useful application I have found for that kind of text generation is for dealing with risk and compliance people. For some reason they love reams of bullshit paperwork, and LLMs are very good at giving them nice sounding fluff. It's amazing to be able to throw in a list of bullet points and have it expand that out into something they find sufficient.
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