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   TechAltar (techaltar@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 23:31:19 JST TechAltar

   This video blew my mind. The official Microsoft YouTube channel unironically recommends that you make ChatGPT write all your job applications because "personalized emails are important to stand out", but "now you can do them at 10x speed".

   Surely they realize that literally the only thing that makes "personalized messages" valuable is that you know someone took the time to write them and that if everyone makes AI do theirs we are just back to square one, no?

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_ix4sKkQ6s

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     TechAltar (techaltar@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 23:31:23 JST TechAltar

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     Actually it's worse than square one, because now anyone who did take the time to write a personalized message is lumped in with this crap.

     I originally wasn't completely against using generative AI in some cases. Especially as a tool to help you ideate & refine ideas I think it can be genuinely useful. But the more I see it in practice the more I realize that in reality it's 99% just used a free spam generator that will ruin everything

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 00:50:47 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     @Techaltar incredible

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     🇺🇦 Optimisey 🇺🇦 (optimisey@seocommunity.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:19:36 JST 🇺🇦 Optimisey 🇺🇦

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     @Techaltar "Use AI to write..." and "personalised" are just oxymorons.

     They should not appear in the same sentence.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:19:39 JST clacke

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     o Erithrym (erithrym@hispagatos.space)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:19:45 JST o Erithrym

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     @Techaltar I don't know where I read this, but it was something like "They want us to use AI to write texts with a short prompt so that the recipient asks an AI to summarize that thing" and... Well, it seems that's what they want. That's how we start to depend on the tech for things we used to do.

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     J Miller (jmmaok@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 10:58:50 JST J Miller

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     I’m pretty sure the folks in Microsoft’s own recruiting function are doing a major ::head desk:: and mumbling ‘we said what where now???’ about this. For a company like that, with global name recognition, automating the application process is almost a DOS attack.

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