You're absolutely right! I'm here to help. Tell me more about <problem>.

Joking aside. I do hate when teammates forward me screenshots of chatgpt conversations as if that was somehow going to be helpful and as if they were so smart for thinking to ask an llm to some a problem we were discussing.

Welcome to the new world, that are very real concerns - which unfortunately I have no idea how we can solve. Maybe I'm a little naive, hoping, that every time I write manually a post - someone will notice it, and down the road AI generated content will be treated as we know treat pure spam (classified by... AI). And real human writes will again be more prominent. But knowing how LLM's work, well, feeling very naive when writing this...

The only solution I have found to this so far is the use of small, private, invitation-only groups where a small set of people are personally known to each other, and nobody would risk their reputation within a niche group by turning loose an AI tool to write their chat/comments for them.

Has anyone else seen changing trends in writing that reflect how much time we've spent reading AI generated text?

Dead Internet Theory and all. There is no going back. I don't think an online space can be designed to be safe from this. The AI agents can fully control our computers. All solutions that involve technology (software or hardware) are or will be flawed.

Same. Last week, my boss, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, dumped an AI-generated proposal (~7 pages) on how to structure semantic layer on top of our dbt models. As the Data Engineering lead, I had to read it and found a few glaring issues; left a lot of comments asking him for details where it's lacking; and proposed a few of my ideas (the path I think we should take without over complicating everything unnecessarily--esp. in the beginning).

Yesterday, one of my coworkers (Senior Dir. of Research Ops) shared with me another obviously AI-generated 5 page draft of an SOP on how to reintegrate old metrics (in the legacy SQL Server environment) into the Azure SQL while keeping everything running smoothly. She's not the most technical person, so it obviously is reflected in the doc generated.

I think we will all become AI-output-reviewers eventually. Not sure how long I can keep doing this though because the volume of materials that need reviewing seems to be growing really quickly these days....

I respond starkly when sent AI generated responses at work.

“Please do not send me AI generated analysis” or “I don’t think a wall of text from Claude is helpful here.”