AI and That Guy at the Bar
The article discusses the challenges of integrating AI into personal and professional communications. It highlights the emotional impact of using AI-generated responses instead of authentic communication. The author expresses concern over the manipulation involved in such interactions and emphasizes the importance of respecting boundaries in relationships.
- ▪The author reflects on a friend's use of AI in communications, which felt disingenuous and manipulative.
- ▪The article draws a parallel between AI interactions and experiences with insincere individuals at social gatherings.
- ▪The author is creating an AI policy for their project that discourages AI contributions, emphasizing the need for genuine communication.
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AI and that Guy at the barDecember 10, 2025In tech we've always had evangelists, weither it's for FOSS, or Blockchain or now AI. It's a natural thing to do. You have a tech you're excited about and of course you want everyone around you to use it. In time, you learn to read people and see they aren't interested and eventually they may consider trying it. But leave them, they will come in their own time. When the blockchain was doing the rounds especially with NFTs, the tech was being crow barred into everything. It was in funding rounds, and the EU went on the bandwagon too. We will always have tech hype. A lack of Respect AI however this seems to be worse. Not just because of the serious hardware shortages that LLM models are causing. It's what it's doing to people.
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