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Over the summer I have had about half a dozen conversations with people who work in non-technical fields (university administration, healthcare, government administration, teachers, etc) who are furtively using ChatGPT to augment their communication tasks. There is a hushed-tones quality to them admitting it.

I suspect the rate of individualized adoption of AI augmented writing is well beyond what a casual observer here on HN would think it is.

I also share Chiang's worry about this:

> We are entering an era where someone might use a large language model to generate a document out of a bulleted list, and send it to a person who will use a large language model to condense that document into a bulleted list. Can anyone seriously argue that this is an improvement?

I do not think OpenAI Et al. set out to create a self-perpetuating slop machine like this but it sure feels like this is where it is going. For individuals it improves their life I guess but when zoomed out there is something quite dystopian about it.