It's a game of Chinese-room whispers.

I hope researchers somewhere are quantifying exactly how different they are.

Yup. People don't like to admit that a huge percentage of corporate "work" is performative

There is an idea among the neurotypicals that longer is better, in part because the academic environment rewards length. More words is more better.

Yeah i do this. Whenever i try to write in paragraphs the recipient ends up not responding to half of it. It's like they reach the first question and stop reading.

This AI expansion and summarization reminds me of when translation online was new and you'd translate something then translate it back and get a totally different thing.

I would like to do this, but many people want the fluff and sparkles.

I have received compliments from coworkers about my AI slop, and I told them, "You know that I just feed a list of bullet points into an AI, right?"

They were happy anyway. It will probably take some time before everyone gets over the 'wonders' of AI. Until that day, I give them what they want.

I used to be like that but learnt that the literal meaning isn't enough for some people, and an emotional impact needs to be created through prose. In general I still prefer brevity if it is very common phrases/jargon.

Same but I'm playing the stupid ass game. Would prefer to do my work and use notepad to give you a list of things I did. Now it's a formatted report with a summary that said I did all the things.

But… this is the opposite of compression.

Was it ever real? I think AI is just exposing how nonsense it all has been for the past 40 to 70 years. This whole corporate culture mindset was built by people who used work to avoid their family and golfed or drank their way through lunch.

More than 5% of the people alive today got to work jobs in a time before weekly status reports, organizational key results, year end reviews and stacked ranking. There are even worse things from before those so going back isn't the answer. We need to build a new work culture and we should not feel that what we have today is just how it is.

Yep. I think about it like having a time machine that could go back and change the future, or a printer that outputs perfect money dollars. Would be super useful, but only if somehow you alone, no one else, had the same technology. If everyone has it, it's just chaos and everything sucks.

I use AI everyday for software development. It's soul sucking and saps any satisfaction from completing anything but you can't put the genie back in the lamp so here we are.

I have had multiple discussions with non technical people who are on both sides of this image. They sit there talking about how it makes it easier to do the various parts of their job without irony. I just blink back thinking "you are describing a meat proxy". If you are just copy pasting emails from one UI to another why do they need you?

The anti AI people like to pretend that it's ineffective but there are a large number of people in the middle of the org chart whose job is basically summarizing PowerPoints from below and then pass up. AI can definitely do that and even if it's inefficient it's fast and doesn't need benefits and healthcare.

Those people are going to get fucked.

There are job "cheats" that are efficient - ways to save time that don't affect work product.

And then there are "cheats" that just push the work to someone else, because some people will gladly save five minutes for themselves even if it creates an hour of work for someone else.

So yes, the latter people are the ones driving workplace AI adoption, as their "little productivity secret."

WHERE IS MY HOVERBOARD?

Probably partly philosophical questions among some over whether your teleporter is a duplicator with an execution feature.

https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/

I like this one

Thank you! That's just the one I was thinking of too

but I didn't personally see it, so does it really matter?