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People don't like if they find out a friend used AI to help craft a message to them, a new study suggests. But they are equally upset if their friend had writing help from another person (news.osu.edu)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I'm talking to a friend I want them to be themselves and genuine. Having someone else compose a message for them, AI or human, invades my privacy and tells me that they don't want me to see who they genuinely are. Talk to me like you normally do. Don't paraphrase everything you want to say through a third party. We're not strangers, there's no need for everything to be professional. I'm friends with YOU, and I'm talking to YOU. Don't pretend to be someone you aren't.

To me this is less about AI vs Human, it's just the fact the friend isn't being genuine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you think about the card industry that sells all these birthday and anniversary cards that people buy all the time? Not sure this is really much different.

Just curious because I usually buy a blank card and write my own stuff. Never can find a card that says what I want to say anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Those cards are platitudes, and I think nothing of the messages within them.
An empty card with no design and a signed name would be equally meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

cards are old school memes.

No one is expecting what's written inside in typed font to be the words of the individual who gave them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the difference is that a card is more of a gesture than a discussion like in texts. They’re a way to show that you’ve gone out of your way to acknowledge something card-worthy. Texts are a discussion between both people.

I do think there’s more genuine expression from selecting a card that seems right than running with what an AI suggests, especially since cards are (hopefully) written by an actual person considering the occasion. That and you can always add a personal note to a store bought card as well.

Overall though, it kind of feels like an apples to oranges comparison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As somebody with autism. I find this take lacking nuance. You see for me these tools represent a huge leap and accessibility for me. I can turn a wall of stream of consciousness text into something digestible and represents myself.

I find myself constantly exhausted with the societal expectation that I review, edit, and adjust my own speech constantly. And these tools go a long way to helping me actually communicate.

I mean, after all nothing changes for me. People thought of me as a robot before. And I guess they can continue to think I'm still a robot. I've stopped giving a crap about neurotypical expectations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think they laid out their thoughts pretty well and in a good number of situations it works, but like most things it depends on the situation, if someone gets mad at you for using an AI and you explain to them that it's a great tool to help communicate your thoughts in a way that is more easily digestible due to whatever personal factors and they are STILL upset then the problem isn't AI the problem is that they are an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your fighting with me idgaf who you are, I will use the 200 IQ magical chat bot to lawyer your ass.

I am too much of a sperglord to go it alone!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I take a less extreme take. But I definitely resonate. As somebody with autism, it's really nice to have an impartial chat assistant to turn my stream of consciousness wall of text into something far more digestible. Trying to do so myself often takes hours to construct a message a couple paragraphs long. Where I checked and double check and triple check for anything that might offend somebody or come across strange or not flow well. Etc etc etc.

A lot of these articles don't really investigate the accessibility aspect of these tools. And I really wish they did. I know if one of my friends used chatgpt to help with their messages, I would be completely fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah! I think there’s a big difference between checking out from the interaction emotionally and just saying some plausible nonsense, and finding easier ways to communicate what you do want to say. Those are really different things. I think only the people within that relationship can really tell the difference. It depends on the dynamic. If someone is dismissive or distant in general, this would bother me, but if they were just using it to more easily converse with me, it wouldn’t.