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The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I was just commenting on how shit the Internet has become as a direct result of LLMs. Case in point - I wanted to look at how to set up a router table so I could do some woodworking. The first result started out halfway decent, but the second section switched abruptly to something about routers having wifi and Ethernet ports - confusing network routers with the power tool. Any human/editor would catch that mistake, but here it is.

I can only see this get worse.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (12 children)

It's not just the internet.

Professionals (using the term loosely) are using LLMs to draft emails and reports, and then other professionals (?) are using LLMs to summarise those emails and reports.

I genuinely believe that the general effectiveness of written communication has regressed.

[–] MisterFrog 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I honestly wonder what these sorts of jobs are. I feel like I have barely any reason to use AI ever in my job.

But this may because I'm not summarising much, if ever

AI can't think, and how long emails are people writing to ever make the effort of asking the AI to write something for you worth it?

By the time you've asked it to include everything you wanted, you could have just written the damn email

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