[easygenes]

While I endorse the message of TFA (though do find the framing a bit on the overly blunt side), I believe it's unfair to reduce to "losing the person". The person is still willing to engage with you and still had to use their human words to prompt the AI. The latent space they exposed within the model is still uniquely the result of their words and effort.

We're just missing the establishment of a decorum of, "even if you do feel like you need to prompt the AI before responding, and even if you like the response, you still need to paraphrase and synthesize to avoid coming off rude and inhuman."

[FridgeSeal]

> The person is still willing to engage with you

But the highlighted examples demonstrate the complete opposite. Shuttling things between a model isn’t engaging with another human meaningfully.

[cbhl]

> still had to use their human words to prompt the AI

In that case, I would like to know what prompt they used so that I can learn to use the AI tools better.

Like, we've had "let me google that for you" since 2008...

[paulryanrogers]

Maybe "let me prompt that for you" will catch on?

[JohnFen]

> The person is still willing to engage with you and still had to use their human words to prompt the AI.

But they aren't willing enough to participate to actually engage in a discussion. They're just making people interact with a bot with a layer of indirection. Apparently, they don't know (or care) that if someone wants the machine's answer rather than the person's, they'd just ask the machine directly.