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I’ve been thinking about the future of this type of “AI fatigue”. Microsoft 365 Copilot has embedded this feature in Outlook, Teams, Word, etc.

I’m concerned that people’s desire and ability to read content from coworkers will significantly decrease, because…why spend my life reading something that “Bob” didn’t even write?

I’m not the only one thinking about this. M365 Copilot even has a “Make it sound like me” button…

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I still facepalm everytime someone excitedly demonstrates how they used ChatGPT to turn a nice concise message into a wall of PR fluff, as if that's some victory. I get that for some types of writing this is unfortunately beneficial, but for routine transactional emails (especially with internal colleagues), I think 90% of people would much prefer brevity and plain language

If I ever spend a long time composing an email, it's usually because I'm trying to make it as short and clear to read as possible. What's that old quote, "forgive me for the length of this letter; I don't have the time to make it short"?

But you can distill a wall of PR fluff to a concise message with ChatGPT... The problem is the average user thinks "long text = good" and their bosses often agree.

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