[kingkongjaffa]

AI writing makes me irrationally angry, when I use AI and tell it to avoid everything from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing and it does improve things. Banning em-dashes, and it's not x it's y false equivalences.

And I use it for myself and what I send to others is 99% written by me.

For people who treat writing, especially business writing as a craft to communicate ideas, seeing AI slop is just like nails on chalk board.

I've copies of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style and https://workingbackwards.com/ and I've been trying to shift us from a slides-first culture or a quick-email-first culture to a serious writing-first culture.

I genuinely care about this stuff. Thoughtlessly blurting out pages and pages of vanilla unedited LLM output seems disrespectful to the reader.

As writer you're saying: I didn't care enough to craft my message personally, here read this generated content I haven't even seriously edited.

And for the reader it's saying the same: This guy sent me a document to read, I need to sift through it to figure out if there's any actual merit or novel ideas or actional information here.

The asymmetry of effort is disrespectful IMO.