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I shit you not, I heard both of these mentioned as potential AI uses on one introductory AI training at work.
Not back to back so unfortunately it wasn’t a joke.
Why even have a human at that point? We shouldn’t even have conversations with each other anymore. Let’s just hold up our phones and let them do the talking.
ITT neurotypicals take one step closer lmao
If people would be happy with bullet points we could just send them.
But you need to have a bunch of fluff or people assume you’re being uncooperative.
Sometimes it’s frustrating not being able to answer a yes or no question with just yes or no
I have never met that kind of person that won’t accept a short answer that actually answers a question.
What I have seen plenty of is people that are completely sure nobody else will accept short answers. They specifically will always accept it, of course, but nobody else.
“Why can’t I just send bullet points?”
“It’s bad etiquette. You have to put in the effort to write a proper email, to show you care.”
“Okay, how do I write a proper email?”
“Oh I just use ChatGPT mostly.”
True social niceties matter
Rent is due in 17 days
I’m unemployed. A few years ago, the Finnish government introduced a requirement that all job seekers must submit up to 4 applications per month. (This was stupid from both the applicant and recruitment perspective. They did this anyway. Oh, companies just get swamped by applications? :surprised_pikachu:)
Then I started hearing news that major companies are screening applications based on AI analysis. And then I attended one job applicant event where one of the sessions was literally “using ChatGPT to write a cover letter”.
I’m in software development. I don’t expect to be employed again anytime soon. (Unless I bullshit my way to some AI job using ChatGPT, but hey, I have a few vestiges of morality left.)
UK here and I was unemployed/irregularly employed back around 2012-2014. The requirement was like 10 applications a week.
I used a web plugin that automated it. Just one click applies. You also need to log each thing you do to search for a job. It is trivial to lie. Honestly the system is so awful I think it actually makes it harder to find a job than having zero requirements beyond being unemployed. Not like it’s enough money to live off anyway, it would comfortably cover food and water, but that is all.
Then they made me work full time at Argos (retail) to continue getting welfare payments which works out to less than a quarter of minimum wage.
Now its iirc 5 hours of jobhunting and applying every single day? You exhaust every opening within 50 miles in the first week. Though less so these days because every job demands you spend 90 minutes filling out a survey no one will look at.
Then they made me work full time at Argos (retail) to continue getting welfare payments which works out to less than a quarter of minimum wage.
I want a special place in hell for people who made these laws and/or cheering on them…
My little protest was that I would occasionally move items in their stock room at random so it didn’t match the database.
You dont like the extra steps we added to slavery? Oh I bet you want us to make an app for slavery to innovate and disrupt the labor market!
One more step should make this daily coercion okay… right? /$
Why is the government mandating how many applications you submit? Was this in order to be eligible for unemployment pay?
Yup. In theory, it’s a program to gently kick the job applicants to apply for more jobs, which sounds like a good thing. In practice, it’s yet another way for the authorities to breathe down the neck of job applicants to document the busywork they’re already doing, and make sure they’re doing nothing productive besides sitting by their phones and waiting for calls (that probably never come because you just annoyed every potential employer by spamming them with applications).
Several years ago, Finnish authorities did another experiment. Universal basic income for a few lucky recipients! People who participated in this couldn’t believe how awesome it was to freely engage in a bunch of modern freelancing options that the unemployment benefits program just straight up banned. I hear it was awesome while it lasted. Now, they decided to do this mandatory application bullshit for the rest of the unemployed populace. I’m hoping they got all of the data on which of the options was more productive, because from my point of view, this hasn’t been it!
I’ve told this story before, about our last fax server.
Work -> PDF -> send fax -> receive fax -> PDF -> work
I work in international freight and this is still a thing. Most customs brokers are email now, but some still require documents be faxed. So our system takes the PDF that it auto generates for every shipment and faxes it to the number on file. From time to time those same brokers will email us a copy of the PDF we faxed them to have something corrected. So they are getting the fax in their email rather than having us just email the thing directly. It makes zero sense, like I understand keeping the fax capability for legacy customers and as a backup, but your primary should be email if it’s all going there anyway.
i have been known to send emails like
hello jeff,
yes.
best regards,
grass company title, etc.
I sent a department wide email announcing a new release on an internal piece of software my team maintains, it was very concise, almost like a telegram, it was something like:
To everyone at this department:
Internal Software version 6 has been released.
Added support for ABC feature and fixed the issue with XYZ.
Full details in this link.
Kinds regards, me.
Shortly after I got a very verbose response by someone explaining me why should I use AI to write “better” emails, by better it meant longer and verbose. I replied with this comic
And both single bullet point messages are completely opposite to each other!
Talk to text and text to talk have made voicemails unnecessary.
Sounds like running an email through translationparty.com
So it’s an idiot modem.
That can make serious mistakes. I predict, that someone will lose great money due to hallucinations in the way…
Social Media: I can drive user numbers by using AI to generate interactions and interest
Social Media in 2026: … it’s all AI now
There was a fad of running things through google translate and back several times until you get something funny.
Has that fad returned with a ChatGPT expand -> contract loops?
Google translate was the original AI. We would copy an essay, run through translate 2-3 times and correct the grammar errors. Worked every time up until people caught on.
Decearing egg!!
The worst is TikTok man. So many AI bot accounts pumping up Trump. It’s nutts. The algorithm doesn’t even care anymore. You hate Trump and MAGA? You still get that trash on feeds. If I didn’t have a wife, I wouldn’t even have the app.
Do you comment on those videos? Do you engage with them at all? Even stopping and watching for more than a couple seconds will pique the algorithms interest.
I don’t get any Trump on TikTok. Surprisingly the worst for me is LinkedIn. So many straight up retards. And theyre always the quintessential 60 year old sunglasses pfp white man.
I guess you’re right. Stopping and being dumbfounded is probably killing it for me. Plus maybe the one or two comments on them calling them out. So many bot accounts comment and defend Trump lol. I gotta play the algorithm better!
Yeah, gotta watch those cortisol levels. If you feel your brain light up in response to some trash take inside of the fediverse, you can take all the time you need. You can let your inner palpatine feed a little of that existential rage, as a treat.
If you feel your brain light up in response to some trash take inside of a social algorithm machine, close the app and take a beat. The algorithm notices. If you even pause on it, then keep scrolling, you reinforce the algorithm. You let the algorithm win.
Isn’t it crazy how seemingly schizoaffective thoughts are just, like, normal concerns in the modern day?
We have been told we have to use copilot at work and they made up a bunch of bullshit reasons to use it. Most were just reasons not to use ChatGPT. I locally host my own LLMs but don’t use them that often.
Reverse lossy compression
Here is an AI summary in bullet point form: /s
- Title: The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
- The study surveyed 319 knowledge workers to explore how Generative AI (GenAI) impacts their critical thinking practices and the perceived effort involved in these tasks.
- Knowledge workers primarily engage in critical thinking when using GenAI tools to enhance work quality, avoid negative outcomes, and develop skills.
- Key barriers to critical thinking include lack of awareness, time pressure, limited motivation, and challenges in improving AI responses in unfamiliar domains.
- Higher confidence in GenAI reduces the perceived effort required for critical thinking tasks, while confidence in their own skills tends to increase perceived effort, especially during evaluation and application of AI outputs.
- Participants reported enacting critical thinking in about 60% of the examples shared, often involving goal and query formation, response inspection, and integration of AI outputs.
- Trust in GenAI can lead to over-reliance, diminishing independent problem-solving and critical engagement, particularly in routine tasks.
- The study identified motivators for critical thinking, including the desire for quality work and skill improvement, alongside inhibitors like perceived task importance and job scope.
- Knowledge workers often conflated reduced effort with reduced critical thinking when satisfied with AI-generated responses, indicating a potential risk of complacency.
- The findings suggest that GenAI tools should be designed to support critical thinking by addressing awareness, motivation, and ability barriers among users.
- The implications highlight the need for feedback mechanisms in GenAI tools to help users calibrate their trust and confidence, ensuring a balanced relationship between AI assistance and independent critical thinking.
