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Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?

7•causal•1h ago
I see it more and more in email, Slack, text, etc: People too scared to share their own thoughts so they AI-wash it and send an exhausting page of "It's not X, it's Y!" slop instead.

I'm not the CEO, I can't order people to stop. The CEO does it too.

I try talking to people directly, but people get defensive and there's always the chance they didn't use AI. I need indirect means of socializing change.

Looking for anything I can use to socialize against AI-washing: Articles, memes, policies that other companies have successfully used- whatever.

Comments

jjgreen•1h ago
A noble but essentially Sisyphean goal, you might as well try to get people to stop playing with their phones.
causal•1h ago
Fair but I have seen workplaces keep phone use largely curtailed. Surely it's not so impossible with AI...right? Right...? :/
alexdobrenko•51m ago
is this written by AI
theorchid•44m ago
I tried to write my first blog posts using AI. I created dozens of restrictions and rules so that it would produce human-like text, which I then edited. The text contained only my thoughts, but the AI formatted them. However, no matter how much I tried to prohibit constructions such as "It's not X, it's Y!", it still added them. I had to revise 10 drafts before I had the final version. When I stopped using AI for my texts, my productivity increased, and I can now complete an essay in 1-2 drafts, which is 5 times faster than when using AI.

This is strikingly different from development. In development, AI increases my productivity fivefold, but in texts, it slows me down.

I thought, maybe the problem is simply that I don't know how to write texts, but I do know how to develop? But the thing is, AI development uses standard code, with recognized patterns, techniques, and architecture. It does what (almost) the best programmer in their field would do. And its code can be checked with linters and tests. It's verifiable work.

But AI is not yet capable of writing text the way a living person does. Because text cannot be verified.

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