AIBU to wish people would stop writing professional emails with Chat GPT?

Possibly if you are at a more advanced stage but I am still in the present tense so for me it is like a staff when walking up a steep hill.

But when you're learning your new facts from MN, or from Chat GPT, those things you learn may not actually be facts.

Wrt school reports-I'm sure there must be some teachers who use CHATGPT, but it's honestly much quicker just to write the blooming thing than to piss about thinking of AI prompts and then edit whatever garbage it spews out (especially when you're doing several short reports)

Sometimes these can come across as a bit odd/stilted if the teacher is trying to churn out 32 in one lunch break, or if they they're not allowed to say what they actually mean.

Its those who CBA changing the American spellings/terms into British. Then words that don't follow.

Generally I can hear the person's voice when reading anything.

But then why bother doing anything? Isn’t your job to learn and know about things. As an academic expert in a niche subject, chat gtp which I’ve checked out of interest and seen students use - is also wildly inaccurate.

Learn something new every day!

Not unreasonable. ChatGPT writing is repetitive and empty. Ick.

@CautiousLurker1 yes, I understand that. I was asking the poster though, who seemed to have a problem understanding it, possibly confusing it with brusque, and ironically ending up looking daft when trying to point a finger at another poster!

ChatGPT wouldn't invent a work history unless the user told it to. If they're claiming to have 10 years' experience then that's their own invention.

Brisk is perfectly fine to describe speech. It means, well, "brisk". Not actively rude like "brusque", but businesslike and lacking in extraneous fluff.

Nope, but many of my students don't care about getting a good mark. They just want to pass.

Brisk means ‘active and energetic’ and refers to physical movement, such as a walk. Many people misuse it because it sounds similar to ‘brusque’ which means abrupt when used in relation to speech and is usually intended to convey rudeness/offhandedness. Ie, ‘brisk’ was incorrectly used in your example.

Congratulations on identifying a typo 👏🏼

Yes, probably. But as I typed this manually, auto correct did not.

Wonderful use of bold font though - bravo!

Just checking. I’m not very familiar with AI but getting the point now!

That's the joke.

We had a whole stack of job applications written by AI. They would start off “I would be a perfect fit for the role of project manager at X as my experience and skills aligns with your requirements. I have 10 years of experience as a project manager in Y sector, working on a diverse range of projects.” Then you would look at their career history and they would list a job as front of house in a hotel or as a carer for 6 months. The sheer number of applicants claiming to have 10 years of experience when you could see that they had either had no relevant experience or they had only graduated this year was ridiculous.

macros. Would AI pick that error up?

I heard that the 'select all the boxes with traffic lights' type ones were part of training driverless cars.

As I understand it, the point of those tick boxes is more to do with how you move the cursor rather than being able to actually tick a box.

But you still start to recognise the same tell tale comments/sentences that just sound "weird" however much you tell it to be informal or succinct, etc. I spot it a mile off. More so that most people I have email exchanges with are people I also meet in real life. There's usually a real difference in how they speak, talk and interact when they're in front of you, compared with their supposedly "informal" emails. It's SO obvious when you know what you're looking for.

Like the building firm owner who always comes into the office with a greeting of "Hi Jane" but his emails always start "hope you are well and safe". When you first see that greeting you just think they're being a bit weird, but when you start to see it regularly, you realise it's AI! No one would say that in real life in this country at the moment!

You can also spot to paragraph and sentence structure, bullet points, introduction and summary etc., even on supposedly "informal" emails.

It really is obvious when you start to know what you're looking for.

Brisk is a perfectly appropriate word in this context.

You may be thinking of brusque? which also describes language, but is a different word, and a tone that few people would deliberately aim for.

I use AI extensively in my job, although I do then take time to edit and 'humanise' text as necessary.

Even with an hour's editing time on top, it's still faster than writing a presentation or formal pitch from scratch.

I see it as a useful additional tool rather than the be all and end all.

I heard those recaptcha boxes were part of training the bots. No idea if it's true, but remember hearing someone say that.

I would challenge you to learn more about what AI is truly capable of. You’d be impressed.

And your comment isn’t correct. Proficiency in Microsoft applications is now a prerequisite of all office jobs. Ability to use excel to write macro’s was once a sort after skill in some professions. The time will soon be upon us when AI use & understanding is a requirement of the best paying roles.

I remember someone saying we should train the bots to tick those recaptcha "I am a human" tickboxes you get on websites - because isn't that exactly the sort of boring, mechanical job we invented them for?