My take here is, I think the real issue is AI pretending to be human by mocking a human style.
I'd always rather read an actual person's thoughts, clearly communicated and written down in their voice. But, there's clearly a subsection of people who don't want to (or aren't confident in / etc) writing their ideas fully.
If they have a bullet point list, and they want to use AI to neaten up the bullet point list and present it back, that's fine by me. I wouldn't have minded reading their thoughts in a messy list, but AI is serving to make it more readable.
What I think everyone hates, is AI being used to convert the list into pseudo-thought-out-prose. It just contains a bunch of bloat that wastes people's time.
So my advice if you use AI to write and don't want to change: keep going, just stop seeing the desired output as human prose. Just neaten up your bullet point list / promot / whatever, and send me that.
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I'd always rather read an actual person's thoughts, clearly communicated and written down in their voice. But, there's clearly a subsection of people who don't want to (or aren't confident in / etc) writing their ideas fully.
If they have a bullet point list, and they want to use AI to neaten up the bullet point list and present it back, that's fine by me. I wouldn't have minded reading their thoughts in a messy list, but AI is serving to make it more readable.
What I think everyone hates, is AI being used to convert the list into pseudo-thought-out-prose. It just contains a bunch of bloat that wastes people's time.
So my advice if you use AI to write and don't want to change: keep going, just stop seeing the desired output as human prose. Just neaten up your bullet point list / promot / whatever, and send me that.