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Now it feels kind of neat, and maybe works when others are reading well crafted messages. What happens when everyone has a bot, and a bot is talking to a bot, because I for one, don't want to be sent or fall for emotionally manipulative messages, or that try to sound empathetic, maybe even are empathetic.

When this type of messaging is so widespread, I wonder what will happen. I think people will ignore most of this type of messaging. Maybe we'll evolve to not be emotional anymore, when emotions are everywhere? I don't know, but an interesting hypothetical.

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The person sending the message is accountable for its content, no matter how it was authored.

Maybe I want to be tactful around a delicate issue, but am struggling to find the right words. An LLM can help me. Alternatively, someone who wants to be manipulative and deceitful might also optimize their message using an LLM.

The tool is of course not inherently good or evil. But one can use the tool for different moral outcomes.

But we can quite easily feel the difference between these ChatGPT messages which are too much and a genuine message.

We know corporate BS when we see it.

And in the example in this post I think the doctor said more or less the same thing to the relatives as the ChatGPT message, the biggest difference was that with the ChatGPT message he sat down with everyone around and reading it out load. Had he stopped and given a few seconds/minutes with all relatives around him and talked with his own words he would reached the same effect.

The other effect is that it was written down. Written texts seems more authoritative than words that just come out of a mouth. So reading from a paper sounds more fact like than just speaking. He could have taken any paper. Or have prepared papers for the most common questions.

Will it really be a difference? Corporate speak is already a thing, people already feign emotions and sympathy. Sure, this is more, but it feels to me like more of the same; I don't think it even magnifies the problem that much.

I don’t see how these are different from any of the usual platitudes everyone commonly uses. I’d worry about everyone sounding the same but nevermind because we all use the same turns of phrase already.

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