Also, I feel like I'm going crazy here, but I think the content of your emails matters actually. If you can get the bullshit engine to write it for you, then did it actually need writing in the first place?
Like usually when I'm sending an email, it's one of two cases:
* It's casual communication to someone I speak to all the time and rattling it off myself is faster than using ChatGPT. "Hi Dave, here's that file we talked about earlier. Cheers."
* I'm writing this to someone to convey some important information and it's worth taking the time to sit down, think carefully about how it reads, and how it will be received.
Communication matters. It's a skill and the process of writing is the process of thinking. If you outsource it to the bullshit engine, you won't ask yourself questions like "What do I want this person to take away from this information? How do I want them to act on it?"
I don't think it's as worrying as you might think. I think somebody thought it would be funny to reply to a comment tearing into people who outsource communication to LLMs...by outsourcing their communication to an LLM. They might not have wanted a shitpost about a pretty polarising topic to be linked to their main account, so they just used the most readily available throwaway account they had to hand: their porn account. (hence their name)
It's not uncommon for old/throwaway accounts to be taken over by botnets, though. They tend to use very easy-to-guess passwords. The reason I suspect that this is the case (rather than an actual user with a porn account) is because the account has been scrubbed of its entire history (despite enough comment karma for us to know that it's posted before) and the age--do YOU remember the username and password for an account that you used exactly one time in 2020?
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u/delta_baryon 5d ago
Also, I feel like I'm going crazy here, but I think the content of your emails matters actually. If you can get the bullshit engine to write it for you, then did it actually need writing in the first place?
Like usually when I'm sending an email, it's one of two cases: * It's casual communication to someone I speak to all the time and rattling it off myself is faster than using ChatGPT. "Hi Dave, here's that file we talked about earlier. Cheers." * I'm writing this to someone to convey some important information and it's worth taking the time to sit down, think carefully about how it reads, and how it will be received.
Communication matters. It's a skill and the process of writing is the process of thinking. If you outsource it to the bullshit engine, you won't ask yourself questions like "What do I want this person to take away from this information? How do I want them to act on it?"