alt Hacker NewsWhat that comment is describing is already here. A colleague sent an email that was obviously AI-generated (bloated, repetitive, low signal-to-noise ratio). I guess he's quite new to the team and it's a sign of formality, but I really don't mind if you send me just the bullet-point notes... Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age of AI.
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If you look at that tech emails twitter account that shows emails from discovery in various legal things, this is basically what you see, just sentences of context with very little niceties.
I had a professor in graduate school who gave me permission to turn in my detailed outlines for my essays rather than filling in all the rest of the words. I think we both liked that better too, and that was 15 years ago.
> Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age of AI.
I hope so, because I hope this will lead to making it OK to skip the manual encoding process. After all, AI isn't doing anything new here - it's automating the customary need for communication to be in wordy prose paying right respects to right people. Maybe people will finally see that this - not AI, but the wordy prose part - is the bullshit that helps neither the sender nor the recipient, and it'll finally become culturally acceptable to send information-dense bullet point lists in e-mails instead.