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Uncannily Overwhelmed by ChatGPT Voice
2 points by inciampati on March 18, 2023 | hide | past | favorite
It's natural that useful tools get used. A tool that can transform your quick notes in native language into clear International English is going to have a wide audience, and it ain't a bad thing IMO. So it's not surprising that I'm now receiving a huge amount of communication from worldwide collaborators and contacts in "ChatGPT voice". But what I don't understand is how we should move past it. It's one thing to fill out a bureaucratic form with LLM. It's another to initiate a deep conversation with one. And although it may feel better than writing a messy email full of grammatical errors, my reaction after just a few days of being on the receiving end of GPT-4's spasmodic ramblings is... no! Give me your error filled notes in whatever language you think I might understand. I want humanity and originality. I may be an old guy but I too have sent thousands of prompts at the oracle and I know it's soulless ring as well as anyone.

What next? Are people going to realize that they have to spice it up and add a human element back in or risk getting ignored? If your notes were good enough for ChatGPT, maybe they are also good enough for your human collaborator? Will there be a wave of effort to rehumanize communication? What are folks going to do to stand out? Curious what y'all think.



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