[chankstein38]

I was just talking about this same thing with someone. It's like emails. If, instead of writing an email, I gave AI some talking points and then told it to generate an email around that, then the person that I sent it to has AI summarize it.... What's the point of email? Why would we still use email at all? Just either send each other shorter messages through another platform or let LLMs do the entire communication for you.

And like you said, it just feels empty when AI creates it. I wish this overhyped garbage just hadn't happened. But greed continues to prevail it seems.

[SchemaLoad]

LLMs are basically only useful when they can utilise public information. They are great for answering questions because the answer to your question can be pulled from wikipedia and reddit. They are completely useless for writing emails because they don't have any more info than you give them. The only thing they can do is fluff them out with nothingness, when the receiver is than AI summerising to strip out.

[carlosjobim]

Communication by e-mail is for when you need a human decision. AI can't help with that.

> Just either send each other shorter messages through another platform

Why would you use another platform for sending shorter messages? E-Mail is instant and supported on all platforms.

[SchemaLoad]

Because email is spammed with marketing. If you send me an email at work there is a good chance I won't see it because I got 20 emails from every SaaS product news letter flooding the inbox. If you send me a message on slack there is a 100% chance I will see it.

[carlosjobim]

That can be avoidable. For example by using a different adress for inter-personal communication.