Do you think that spam letters are generally considered to be a good use of resources?

Imagine the process of solving a problem as a sequence of hundreds of little decisions that branch between just two options. There is some probability that your human brain would choose one versus the other.

If you insert AI into your thinking process, it has a bias, for sure. It will helpfully reinforce whatever you tell it you think makes sense, or at least on average it will be interpreted that way because of a wide variety of human cognitive biases even if it hedges. At the least it will respond with ideas that are very... median.

So at each one of these tiny branches you introduce a bias towards the "typical" instead of discovering where your own mind would go. It's fine and conversational but it clearly influences your thought process to, well, mitigate your edges. Maybe it's more "correct", it's certainly less unique.

And then at some point they start charging for the service. That's the part I'm concerned about, if it's on-device and free to use I still think it makes your thought process less interesting and likely to have original ideas, but having to subscribe to a service to trust your decision making is deeply concerning.

Articulating thoughts is the backbone of communication. Replacing that with some kind of emotionless groupthink does actually destroy human-to-human communication.

I would wager that the amount of “very significant thing that have happened over the history of humanity” come down to a few emotional responses.

Do you think that the LLM helped deliver a thoughtful letter to Rob Pike?

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Communicate between what though?

Communication happen between two parties. I wouldn't consider LLM an party considering it's just an autosuggestion on steroids at the end of day (lets face it)

Also if you need communication like this, just share the prompt anyway to that other person in the letter, people much rather might value that.

I shouldn't have to explain this, but a letter is a medium of communication between people.

Automated systems sending people unsolicited, unwanted emails is more commonly known as spam.

Especially when the spam comes with a notice that it is from an automated system and replies will be automated as well.

> Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com

FFS. AI's greatest accomplishment is to debase and destroy.

Trillions of dollars invested to bring us back to the stone age. Every communications technology from writing onward jammed by slop and abandoned.

> I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately throw said enveloppe, postage, and letter in the trash

If you're being accurate, the people you know are terrible.

If someone sends me a personal letter [and I gather we're talking about a thank-you note here], I'm sure as hell going to open it. I'll probably even save it in a box for an extremely long time.

Then you are part of truly strange circles, among people who don’t understand human behavior.

Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?

You surround yourself with the people you want to have around you.

Wow. You couldn't waterboard that out of me.