Mastodawn

My general dislike of AI writing has had a positive impact on how I read and listen to texts and scripts.

If I'm listening to a nature video, for example, and a sentence is empty of meaning or just illogical I turn that video off and avoid whoever made it.

Some of the things I've rejected probably weren't made by AI, but I don't see that as a bad thing.

My main issue with AI texts is I just find them kind of patronizing? You want me to sit and nicely listen but you can't be bothered to write?

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myrmepropagandist Feb 4

I had to talk with a chat from Optimum Online about my internet recently. I think they are using AI, but mixed with a real customer service rep in some bizarre way. Every message is so wordy positive and sycophantic. "Of course I can help you do that right away!" (can you? can you really?)

But, eventually someone made some real changes to my account that I'd HOPE they wouldn't leave to an AI. There were long gaps between each response and I still had to wait 15 to talk to "someone"

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adamrice Feb 4

@futurebird I think I’ve encountered something like this, and I just assumed that a human rep was triggering a text macro, which might have been pre-written by an AI (or a human really good at sycophancy).

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suzanne

@adamrice @futurebird
The Uber driver support got to be almost maddeningly apologetic when I drove for them. I'd call with something simple like "this order was already picked up" or "the restaurant is closed" and they'd immediately say "I'm so sorry, I know it is very annoying for you to have to deal with this!" It was just a script. I always wanted to tell them to skip it but that would have probably led to more of it or just confusion.