There will be a sea of all good, all positive fake text and text will lose its meaning.
We used to appreciate a nicely written mail - now AI will be writing perfectly composed letters. We will learn to appreciate a badly written mail.
To me, the main benefit of a cover letter is that it shows the applicant is engaged enough to actually make an application that is specific to a job posting. That is still the case with AI, it just saves everyone creating them a huge amount of work - most of which is completely wasted when the majority of application are thrown in the trash.
I hope we will realize how absurd it is and just write 2-sentence emails.
Why? Presumably with spam emails they write the email once and send it to a billion people. I don't see why an LLM meaningfully helps this process.
I will develop a typing quirk for the express purpose of ensuring that I wrote the email instead of AI