I have to disagree. My brother-in-law has started to use ChatGPT to punch up his personal letters and they’ve become excerpts from lesser 70s sitcoms. From actually personal and relevant to disturbingly soulless.

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mikestorrent 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Right? If I could get the same output by just talking to AI myself, what's the point of the human connection? Be something, be someone. Be wrong or a little rude from time to time, it's still more genuine.

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pinewurst 8 hours ago | parent [-]

His last letter was an update on a serious health issue. I care. It's not supposed to be a yuck fest, especially inorganic AI sludge.

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alpinisme 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m honestly stunned that people use AI for personal communication. It seems so alien to me.

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shermantanktop 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You don’t think your comment would be improved by including an emoji of an alien? And maybe a telephone?

The “tells” for AI are - as of this writing - very obvious. I assume they will disappear over time.

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foxglacier 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The obvious tells are obvious. The less obvious ones fool you so you don't learn them. There's no feedback. You sound like a schoolteacher saying "My students don't cheat on exams. I'd know if they did!" For starters, you can just tell the AI to write in the style of a HN commenter, or whatever.

	▲	medstrom 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> tell the AI to write in the style of a HN commenter, or whatever. This might turn out to be one of those tricks like Ctrl+C Ctrl+V that surprisingly few people discover.