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I have always enjoyed good punctuation. And being a bit of a nerd myself, I used em dashes throughout University in my essays. To me it felt like a cool little keyboard shortcut that only few knew about. I still use them today—in emails and reports. I haven't yet been personally called out for using AI, but I have noticed a lot more people using them.
So what if people use AI to help them with their grammar and punctuation. At the end of the day, people are still sending messages they endorse—even if it's not one they could have articulated without some help from AI.
Like so many things in life, it's about how you use the tool, not about the tool itself.
I have an employee who uses AI to write regularly, despite vehemently denying using it. An em dash is a key to me that they used AI to write something (and bullet points to some extent). At the end of the day, I really don't care if someone uses AI to smooth out their writing or help organize thoughts. This employee though, will come up with a document or letter that sounds great and is well composed, but fails to address what they actually are supposed to be writing about.
I don't care if you use AI, just use it as a tool to help you do your job instead of having it do your job for you.
Exactly. At the end of the day it is the human behind the computer that clicks send/post. Use AI all you want, just proof read the the stuff before publishing it. Some people don't have a great vocabulary, and in some respect using AI can help to grow their vocabulary. Just don't publish things you wouldn't normally say, especially things you don't fully understand.
I've used AI intermittently to draft emails when time poor. It's much faster to give ChatGPT a sloppy prompt with the gist of the message for it to then instantly spit out a full draft. The responsible thing to do then is to proof read it and make changes that make it more "you". I think that's fine.
My main issue with people doing it, and I have multiple, is that it isn't just helping them with grammar and punctuation (I don't have any problem with people having the little editor autocorrect). It is rewriting the message entirely. Many times the new AI produced message had nuance and tone either added or stripped out, and rarely it has added items entirely. I probably wouldn't have noticed it if my CEO been had not been using it so heavily to restate what has already been stated elsewhere, especially in cases where I have read or written the original statement. Let me tell you that when you are told vehemently that you said something that you did not because of AI help it is beyond frustrating.
Yup, I use AI sometimes to correct my writing because I apparently suck at it and I was not aware. Whoops.