How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
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Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.
Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. It wasn't sent to test AI, or to show it off, as in "ha ha check this out"; my friend had a question to ask me, and the email asked it over the course of a few paragraphs. It then disclosed that, oh by the way, I used AI to write this. My reaction to this surprised me: I was repelled, as if digital anthrax had poured out of the app. I'm trying to figure out why. I'm fortunate in that I don't need to think about AI very much. While I work for a tech company, it's one that, against stereotype, doesn't chase trends and fads, so it just…
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