@AmyZenunim

This sounds excruciating.

I'm hearing it from all quarters these days, though.

I cannot wait for the bubble to burst so people can get back to using their own intelligence, their own training, and their own brains to get things done.

As an actual human scribe who takes pride in their work, I had a request last month by one of my organizers to use AI to try to "help me get the notes done faster" -- and was provided with a 31 page run-on sentence full of hallucinations and mispunctuations and zero clue as to who was speaking from the AI transcript to try to wade through. 😡

I gave it the proverbial "college try" and was able to prove that it did *not* help me get the notes into a cogent form faster. In fact it made the process about twice as long, because I had to check every word in that 31 pages against what I was hearing and what I had already noted down.

I requested that I never have to use the AI transcript again. They're free to record it and free to do that to their heart's content for whatever reasons they may have, but I want no truck with it.

Thankfully, it's a volunteer job, so I can do it however the heck I want. I'm going to continue to use my own ears, my own hands, my own technique, and my own brain from here on out.

I would wish that kind of autonomy on everyone who's being forced to use AI. It should be optional, not mandatory.

I think it was my joke about needing to go save some turtles to offset the water and energy costs of the AI transcript that probably made my organizer not push it any further. I'm finding out that most ordinary people don't understand the environmental costs of it! That really, really scares me.