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   Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines: (steve@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 00:17:27 JST Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

   • violetmadder

   @violetmadder If you're an above-average writer, AI will pull your quality down. If you're a below-average writer, AI will pull your quality up, but in doing so, will create unrealistic expectations about you. And that's before we get to the flagrant inaccuracies.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 00:17:26 JST Rich Felker

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     • violetmadder

     @Steve @violetmadder It won't pull the *quality* up even then. It will pull the appearance-of-quality up.

     But in terms of actually conveying the message you wanted to?

     Poor structuring, bad grammar, substituted words that mean different things, misspellings, etc. that a "below-average" writer might produce *still* convey your message far better than a guess at what someone else might have wanted to say in the context you're asking it to "answer".

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 00:21:45 JST Rich Felker

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     • violetmadder

     @Steve @violetmadder I'm going to give a workplace communication example pulled from an example I know in real life:

     Employee has taken on a new full-time position elsewhere and wants to officially inform manager that they wish to change their existing status to part-time.

     ChatGPT gives them a resignation notice. 😱 🤦