husband asked a client on a quite complicated project please to stop using AI to write her e-mail replies because it makes it very unclear what she actually wants. she ignored that bit of his mail and replied using AI.
(now i'm wondering whether she's using AI to read mails too and it conveniently left that bit out ...)
I feel like the correct response here is to assume the person is in fact not using AI at all. They simply cannot communicate via email effectively in a professional setting.
Their use of AI is a factor, but the result is the issue. This is like folks in the 60s saying "Sorry officer, I had a few too many drinks" and expecting/receiving an understanding response.
They're both irresponsible uses of a technology (AI, high-speed travel) moving faster than the speed of regulation.
it's at the point where she's just copy-pasting what AI says w/o bothering to remove the fluff, i.e., her giving it a block of text and saying, "can you make this more like x?" and it saying, "ok, got it, here's y more like x".
i suppose the hope would be that people would self regulate, but. sigh.
I hate the pace at which we're adopting AI, but I still sometimes use Copilot at work.
It's a great way to lay out a plan to try something you've never done before - for example outlining basic testing strategies given a specific web configuration. But then you've gotta QUESTION everything it says and go do your own thinking and research.
She's surrending her voice and agency to a non-entity, and becoming a non-entity herself in the process. That's deeply sad.
i have to say i will not use it. at all. i personally feel that what it bring with it and the resources is destroys aren't worth anything i could think to ask it for, whatever i happened to be doing, but i realise many people do not share my opinions in that (or in a lot of things ha).
were it possible to use it just as a tool — a tool that was made once and won't continue to drain the planet (and won't prop up the techbros and totalitarian regimes) — then that might be different, but alas.
but again, many people do not share my opinions, and i tend to be fairly ... all or nothing ... about things in general. and resistant to "the future"
*throws clog into machinery*
i hope your week-end is a happy one 
If I could make it go away I would; I believe the world was a better place before all this AI nonsense. I'm not proud of using it, and I don't aim to convince anyone towards that end.
I just think it's sad/problematic to see folks sheepily lean into this slide towards passivity.
Had a chat with my mom the other day - she's in her 70s. She understood AI was bad, but not *why* - and that's the gap that media needs to bridge more effectively.
Stay safe.
laen 🕯️
Carson Hill