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

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One of my managers writes absolutely everything with Chat GPT and as a result, all her emails are oddly formal and often get people's backs up. The tone is all wrong. I don't think she realises how badly she is coming across - and most of the team don't realise that the reason her communication is so lacking warmth and human touch is because she's telling AI what she wants to say.

She even once sent an email to me to let me know that "Marie Jones (your team leader) will advise you on this matter separately." Oh, THAT Marie Jones?! My team leader?! The one who I share an office with?! Thank God you included her surname and clarified her role or I would not have had a clue which Marie (the only one who works with us) you were talking about.

I've just had a general class update from my child's teacher that has been written with Chat GPT - I guess it saves time and I don't really blame him, but I do find it cringy. Once you spot it, it's so obvious. I would be embarrassed to send it.

I should add that I'm not always entirely sure why it's obviously written by AI. The adjectives are a bit off I think. And the sentence structure is recognisably formulaic and always rather longer than a human tends to write.

If you do this at work, you should know that some of the recipients know exactly what you're doing, and it doesn't look great.

It is great at Vogon poetry.

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Absolutely and totally this. Solidarity, sister 🤣.

You are talking about writing with AI. But, I find it amazing when learning a second language. I am learning Italian and just look words and phrases up which help me construct sentences which I would not otherwise be able to construct. I would be spending ages looking words up in a dictionary.

I can’t believe I just read this.

I love AI. I have an SPLD and believe my natural writing style is rather clunky. I’m self-employed and write reports for a living. Since I’ve started using AI to rewrite my sentences my work has increased four fold.

Just a FYI...

I lost a job because I was accused of using Chat GPT. I'm a writer so would never use it because it's the biggest cause of job losses in my field.

I've literally never even logged onto the site but my writing was flagged as using it. I have adhd...

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One million percent agree. It's unfortunately becoming more prevalent. People seem to think their emails sound professional and they're saving time so it's a win win, when in reality their emails read as if they were written by C3PO. It's cringey.

I’m learning Italian too, & I’d be wary of constructing sentences in it with AI because I’d be less able to judge how correct / natural they were.

Do you mind me asking which thread that was? People here are saying that it is very obvious to spot but I don't think I've ever seen anything produced by AI.

Perhaps I'm in an environment where it isn't used for writing documents?

Great. Teachers are using it to teach our kids. Kids are using it to write their homework, banks are using it to write their reports (on things we might want to invest in), university students are using it to write their essays, fictious reading lists, making legal cases up in court cases...

If all these AI bots learn from what's out there, and more and more rubbish is generated by AI then they are just learning and producing more generic rubbish.

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In today's fast paced world..

I have adhd and often struggle to get started on tasks. I find that chat gpt can help me to get past this by providing a ready made framework that I can then edit. Often, I end up editing it beyond recognition, so the end product is very much my own work, but it helps me to get past that initial blank page stage by giving me a useful starting point.

Using it without editing is just lazy and generally very easy to spot.

I can't understand how it doesn't take just as long to feed ChatGPT what you want to say fora short email as it does to just write the email in the first place.

We have been known to use it as a tool at work in terms of content for our website blog, but what it produces is then thoroughly edited and checked for accuracy by a human. We're not reliant on SEO for our website, if we were then I wouldn't be using AI on it at all.

There was one about parking tickets last week.

Well you would say that wouldn't you?

In my work it is being used but also questions are being raised on how to consider it’s use for doing end of year ratings. For example you have colleague 1 who has pulled a paper together using their own research skills and experience vs colleague 2 who put something into chat gpt who then essentially did the paper for them. How should that be reflected in ratings and how would the manager know?

I can see where it has uses but also wondering how much actual experience will be valued in the future when all you need to do is have someone with limited knowledge and experience coming to the same output by using a search engine

You can spot chat gpt letters a mile off, they look awful

So still not going to get a good mark then.

lol, thank you ChatGPT!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo.amp
You don't have to believe the BBC. Scientific journals, banks, just about everyone acknowledges AI has a problem.
My DD works as a climate change researcher and it infuriates her that AI is used so trivially and unnecessarily.

@LeonoraCazalet I agree with @EmpressaurusKitty. My friend is a native speaking Italian that teaches Italian to English speaking secondary school kids. She has been handed some absolute garbage nonsensical pieces of work that have come from AI.

This makes me sad, as someone with dyslexia and who doesn't really understand grammar and tends to write as I speak.

Chatgbt was a life saver for me, so I would write an email and it would just make it sound a bit better and less round the wrong way. 😵‍💫

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