Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How are journalists, novelists, researchers, etc fake?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sorry, I was focused in on professional communication. All those emails sent by bosses that feign interest or care. All necessary niceties that can grate on someone once they know many are just masks.

    I wasn’t being precise, and I assumed others wouldn’t think about it in such broad terms. I agree that my statement would be silly if it applied to all writing that people get paid for.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Professional writing was always fake.

  I don’t even know what that means. You mean that professional authors use spell-checkers or something?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I said more in another comment, but I mean stuff like email. The thing companies like Apple are showing ads on TV for.

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• GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you talking about corporate jargon? Intentionally vague and used by people to try to sound smart. I always ask what someone means when they use it because they could have just used clear and normal language.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I appreciate that someone could tell I didn’t mean to be super broad.

    Jargon definitely falls under the umbrella I was pointing at. Communication among co-workers. Managers. Etc.

    The whole style feels cold to me. And impersonal. And I hate it. Jargon can definitely play a role. But I’m also ok with certain types that actually do make communication flow smoother. But yeah, the vapid jargon that masks a lack of understanding, curiosity or humility is a bummer.

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    • stickly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The reason it feels like that is because it’s addressed to someone who you don’t know personally, even if you know them professionally. You never really know if a specific reference would offend them, if their dog just died, how “this email finds” them, etc…

      And in the context of both of you doing your jobs, you shouldn’t care. Its easier to get day-to-day stuff done with niceties even if it’s hollow.

      That’s just the tone tho. People trying to insist they give a shit when everyone knows they don’t is what bothers me. If you’re firing someone don’t sugar coat it.

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