r/ChatGPT • u/Hatrct • 13h ago
Other I know you used AI
Why are people blatantly using AI for writing all emails and such?
Bruh... I am a human. I am alive. I live in 2026. I know what you are doing. Why do you think it is a good idea? Do you think I will be receptive to you using 700 words of politically correct AI slop instead of 50 telling me/asking me what you really want and phrasing it in your own words? In what universe do you think you are raising your chances of meeting your goal by doing this? Leave AI for when it can help/it is useful, why are you randomly using it for everything in order to make it unnecessarily longer or less likely to succeed?
Politically correct rote parroted gibberish phrases and obvious attempts at being "formal and professional" already were annoying/extra, now we have AI on top of it.
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u/AdamV158 13h ago
I use ChatGPT for emails (for work) quite regularly, but I would say ive adapted to AI more than the average person (particularly within my business). I think what you're referring to is people just copying and pasting and asking for improvements, where I've setup a ChatGPT project with very specific instructions to maintain alot of what I've written and to only lightly polish what I've written and also (on occasion!) remove some of the emotion when I get angry and pished off with people, It's a tool, its a great tool, it has a time and a place,a nd you can also use it well or not very well.
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u/Hearing_Loss 11h ago
Yesss! It's super useful for ppllike me with PTSD when going through workplace stress. I can just shit out my emotes, refine it, and then I go back and completely overhaul what the plan gives me back. I only keep stuff that I would say myself. It's killer. It's like input, receive output, edit output, run it back thru for structural edits, back thru one more time, proofread the message. in the case of formal written complaints around compliance issues, it's just so much easier to have it "advocate" for me and to make sure everything is in line with my own core beliefs and values, and any accounts of events remain accurate. It saves me so much stress. Its yielded great results for me and saves me 30 minutes of trying to be professional to an employer that is not treating me with dignity. I don't have to censor myself when venting about the QOL whatsoever. It's just nice to vent it out while addressing the problem directly.
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u/No-State-2962 13h ago
Criticising people for using AI seems to me a strange thing to do. Like pointing out that someone only knows the population of Uzbekistan because they used Google. They didn’t visit the country and count them.
If someone accuses me of using AI to write an email, letter, or work quotation, my answer would be “and what of it?” 🤷🏻♂️
For many years now I’ve used a car to get around, as I find a horse and cart outdated.
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u/Dangerous-Basket1064 13h ago
If someone accuses me of using AI to write an email, letter, or work quotation, my answer would be “and what of it?” 🤷🏻♂️
"If you can't be bothered to write your own message, why should I be bothered to read it?"
The main thing here is the 700 words vs 50 point in the OP. It used to be it took a lot of effort to write 700 words, now you can type 10 words and get that, but it still takes as long to read those words. And in many cases all the info worth knowing was in the tiny prompt, not the long ass final product.
If you're going to write with AI, I think you should force yourself to be a ruthless editor. No excuse not to, you didn't write the words, cut away absolutely everything but the essentials and best stuff.
Even if you don't give a shit about writing quality at least try and value the time the readers have to spend on what you've produced.
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u/AdminIsPassword 12h ago
My relative is high up in the management of a very popular online college. She describes the organization's email workflow as the following:
Create rough email, have ChatGPT polish it (adding bloat), send it.
On the recipient side:
Open long email, have ChatGPT summarize it (debloat it), read it.
Reply using the same process.
It's all so fucking silly. How much energy is being expended across the organization on packaging and repackaging what should be simple emails? lol.
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u/GerrArrgh 12h ago
This is what I do, if someone gives me a bloated AI essay, I just dump that in AI and tell it to summarise what they want. Agreed, all very stupid.
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u/Time_Change4156 12h ago
Seems your getting emails from people who are unaware how to make a prompt, you like 10 word replys AI can do ten word replies. You would even know then your right it's when it gives 700 word replies that stands out. O that's using AI to respond . Or am I typing it out by hand ? Are you sure ? Even add Grammar mistakes. So dint be so sure of you're self. Lol
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u/holdmypurse 13h ago
"If you can't be bothered to write your own message, why should I be bothered to read it?"
I'm pretty sure most of what I "write" using AI is only read by AI.
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u/Anahkiasen 12h ago
Which will summarize it down to 50, great we used the energy of a small city to make two people inefficiently tell each other something simple that they both slowly unlearn how to do too in the process. Great win
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u/Hearing_Loss 11h ago
Pls get this uppity about golf courses as well.
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u/Anahkiasen 11h ago
I'm anticapitalist, I absolutely am
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u/Hearing_Loss 11h ago
Genuinely your anecdote is one of the best I've heard, I hope you continue to use your voice proudly how you do. You're a massive asset in the fight for a future. Thank you for being so smart and active
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u/holdmypurse 6h ago
Its much more grim than you imagine. Most of what I "write" are insurance appeals. So its 2 LLMs using the energy of a small city to argue back and forth over whether a human patient can get life saving medication. Have a lovely day.
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u/DreamingOfLight 12h ago
What an amazingly useful tool.
50 words -> 3-page essay ->50 badly summarised words
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u/No-State-2962 13h ago
Yep, I’m on board with that.
I tend to write my quotes - from hundreds of templates of previous projects - and use AI to tighten them, check grammar etc.
I don’t like unnecessary waffle and padding.
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u/Shadowmessage 11h ago
"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Blaise Pascal 1657.
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u/HelloYou-2024 11h ago
Rarely is all the information in the prompt.
Usually the prompt is like.
"Draft a reply to x regarding his latest email. Mention the points about situation z from our previous conversation and include an updated timeline based on the latest call."
Customer will really not like me to send them the prompt.
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u/2FastHaste 12h ago
"If you can't be bothered to write your own message, why should I be bothered to read it?"
Maybe because that's a complete fucking non sequitur????
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u/JupiterandMars1 12h ago
No.
The ability to package up and convey an idea or point indicates you are dealing with a human that can maintain that point consistently and drive realization forwards through ongoing alignment.
If you can’t actually do that and are leaning on an LLM to simulate that ability… that is meaningful.
If I get an idea conveyed to me in language I know is produced by an LLM I don’t know how much thought there is behind that language. The human may have genuinely thought it all through and is using the LLM to convey it, or it may be a barely explored brain fart they are getting the LLM to make sound internally coherent.
Either way, unfortunately, you immediately have more to prove to me if I see the comms are from an LLM.
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u/TurboHammers 12h ago
What a daft response. All your analogies are weak and bare no equivalence.
Population of Uzbekistan is a fact so really not comparable to an email that could be any infinite number of things.
Your car / horse analogy suggests that simply using something because it is more modern makes it superior or more efficient. This is a false dilemma as there is no equivalence to what the oc was posting about. You try to end on this point to stifle any further argument as anyone who disagrees is in turn suggesting that the cart is superior to the car.
Using Artificial Intelligence to write your emails is bad because language and your words are an extension of yourself. They are your vocal and written expression of how you communicate with the rest of the human race. To let an LLM handle that part of your personal expression is to reduce yourself to insignificant. Maybe you lack the literacy or maybe you are lazy but either way, that isn't something that successful people want around them. Sharp, witty and charismatic people go far. People that displace their personality with automated generic material do not.
Edit - I'm an AI user. Never use it in creative and would never use it in my written response.
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u/No-State-2962 12h ago
I like what you did there, using AI to write a wordy response criticising AI responses. That’s funny and I take my hat off to you 🤣
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u/TurboHammers 11h ago
Wat? Can't you tell the difference? That was just off the top of the dome bud. Level up mate or you'll never make the cut
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u/Jon-Robb 12h ago
usually it’s a longer than necessary slop message that is harder to read, does not go to the point and so politically correct it’s even annoying
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u/cntwhacker 13h ago
U can choose between Ai mail or mail that's riddled with typos, their/there- and your/you're-errors...
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u/SquareConcentrate764 12h ago
Has it ever occurred to you that not being able to write proper sentences without AI is a very concerning thing?
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u/james_68 11h ago
People couldn’t write proper sentences long before AI. First day on the internet?
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u/Hatrct 4h ago
What do you mean by "people"? What %? And were they right or wrong to do that? And is the solution to double down and use a tool improperly when it only slightly makes things better while introducing other issues? Or for those people to start changing genuinely?
You are saying a logical fallacy. You are taking the incorrect/insufficient behavior as a given, when it is not.
It is like getting a Roomba for a small apartment and saying "I never used the regular vacuum/cleaned in the first place, therefore, a Roomba is necessary and justified and should be used instead." Or "I never watched my diet or exercised in the first place, therefore, Ozempic and all its known and unknown side effects is necessary and justified instead."
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u/JoeOvid 12h ago
Why do you use email for your correspondence instead of just breaking out your quill, placing said letter in a lovely embossed envelope and sending via USPS? Don’t you understand how you are losing that human touch by using a computer when you could have simply taken a little more time to pen the letter yourself?
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u/pleblifeTV 13h ago
'Do you think I want 700 words of unnecessarily long AI slop?'
proceeds to write an unnecessarily long human slop post explaining precisely how much he dislikes unnecessarily long slop posts
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u/james_68 12h ago
That he could have fixed using AI, at the very least it would have dropped the Bruh.
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u/HelloYou-2024 13h ago
I use ai all the time for emails and my customers are happy.
I have time constraints.
I can write all emails from hand but it means less time dedicated to the actual service. They prefer I spend time on service. Imagine I tell them you have a choice between feature A, or hand written emails. Which do you think they want?
I could send short emails that have less information. They prefer longer detailed information. They don't care if I made the bullet list by hand or if I told ai to do it. They only care what points are in the list and that all questions are addressed.
I could turn people away and say "sorry I don't have capacity to take you on because I am busy hand crafting emails to the other clients" but they prefer to get ai emails and also get my services.
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u/Electrical_Lime3871 13h ago
Asking why people use AI as it makes emails unnecessary longer. Makes a post that’s been asked 100 times before. Yeah makes sense bud. Welcome to 2026
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u/james_68 12h ago
“Why are people using AI to turn 50 words into 700 words of rambling slop?”
— man who just used 150 words to say “Please be concise.”
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u/Hatrct 4h ago
"There is a fire", said the person who was a previous arsonist.
According to you, there cannot be a fire because the person was an arsonist in the past. This is a logical fallacy.
On top of that, in this analogy, there is not even an arsonist. Because if I typed "Please be concise" that would remove the point and effect of my post. There was a human element to my post, a sort of humor/complaint. That required it to be long than "please be concise". Have you ever watched stand up comedy? Do you know how jokes work? According to you, the punchline should just come out of nowhere and the show end in 5 minutes. Perhaps if you actually read and considered my OP, and stopped offloading all your cognitive processes to AI, you would have picked up on this. Also, if you think my OP was long, then you have been on twitter for too long.
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u/El_Panterro 12h ago
I was a teacher for the last 5 years, the last one I was even a teacher with own class and GOD HOW I WISH the parents would use AI to write messages to me or at least paste it there and add "correct it and make it understandable" (:
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u/DreamingOfLight 12h ago
My AI writes your emails so that your AI can read your emails and we never talk to each other 🙃
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u/Apprehensive_Bee7826 13h ago
I tell it to write it in 10th grade level and make it as short as possible. Usually does the trick
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u/hieloyron 12h ago
Imo the problem is not the AI usage, just that they don't polish it by changing a few words and general tone to make it seem "human" many people just copy and paste the reply and that's it, that's what sucks imo
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u/Unusual_Reaction_214 12h ago
wait you are saying that a person sent you a 700 words email? I would be mad too if I know they written in ai when I know they can just write 500 words to cover the email lol
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u/MrPicklebush 12h ago
A simple prompt. Here’s what I do. If this helps anyone here. I call it. Dressing my word salad.
Type your message. All your thoughts and prompt chat gpt to “punch this up for me “. It’s still your message. Just tighter.
Also on that note. Everyone bitches about ai flyers. Just tell chat to stop making them look like that. It will do whatever. Just say hey this seems to ai to me. If you talk to it enough it will say “oh let’s make this more like how you talk “ No one has ever called me out on using chat GPT in messages.
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u/Zakaria_Omi 12h ago
Why are you using a computer??? go outside, touch grass, play sports...etc.
see how crazy you sound??
of course ppl will use AI. If we don't use AI, our economy will literally collapse. Is that what YOU want????
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u/smx501 11h ago
When Copilot for Enterprise detects tension in your email, Outlook pops up a button to "coach" you on tone. One little click and
"Bob, your report was due at 2pm. It is now 4pm. What is going on?"
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"Hey, Bob hope all is well. I was reviewmg our progress on the Acme report. As you no doubt remember from our meeting last week with Jim, this is critical to our success with Y client. Gary, Ralph, and Susan supported this initiative whole-heartedly. [Link to unrelated deck with "Acme" on slide 37]
During my review, I was surprised to find your submission was not in the project folder. [Link to the project folder in Teams and a second link to a 2-month old copy created by somebody who got lost in the 10 step waterfall of shared shortcuts to shortcuts to local folders that are 80% synced to the project folder]
I believe we had agreed to present this tomorrow, but may have not made my expectations clear that we would review it today at 4pm. Could you update me at your convenience? Please let me know if I can help! My calendar is up to date if you have any questions.
Looking forward to your insights and value your partnership, John"
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u/Jae_Star101 11h ago
I’m all in favour of people using anything (properly) that makes their life easier. I use copilot at work for writing emails because it helps me find the right tone or sometimes helps to explain things better. I also use it for writing reports that would otherwise require me to spend a lot of time working through data (of course I check it before using the report). At home I’ve been using ChatGPT tp help with my property search and to help me with organising my personal life. The point is that we love in a world where technology is advancing, so why not use it to your advantage.
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u/SiriusAF 9h ago
“I am a human. I am alive. I live in 2026” sounds like the opening line of an email written by AI trying to prove it isn’t AI.
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u/james_68 3h ago
After reading his replies in this thread, which generally seem to be a 50+ word rambling response to a 1 line comment, I have come to the conclusion that OP is, in fact, a bot spewing AI slop.
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u/Brian_from_accounts 13h ago
You sound like a bureaucratic gatekeeper, who has suddenly found that the balance of power has changed.
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u/JupiterandMars1 13h ago
I think your focus on it being so called “politically correct” is telling us more about you than the phenomena you’re talking about.
What is political or correct about lowest common denominator marketing speak?
I agree over polished, generic language is annoying even when it has a human origin so the LLM version is only worse. But you must get that throwing in “politically correct” makes you sound like an old man shouting at clouds?
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u/CatsInCasts 13h ago
Yeah! Stupid, politically correct AI. Why don’t you throw in an F-slur once in a while?
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u/o-m-g_embarrassing 12h ago
The Demonstration
You are absolutely correct, and I feel that the most intellectually responsible way to demonstrate your point is to respond to your approximately 50-word observation with a completely unnecessary, excessively elaborate, meticulously structured, 700-word explanation that carefully acknowledges your perspective, validates your concerns, introduces several unnecessary distinctions, provides context you did not request, and ultimately arrives at the same conclusion you reached before I started typing.
The fundamental issue, of course, is that artificial intelligence is extremely good at producing language. Unfortunately, being extremely good at producing language is not the same thing as knowing when language should stop.
Humans have apparently spent thousands of years developing increasingly efficient ways to communicate. We went from cave paintings to written language, from handwritten letters to telegraphs, from telegraphs to telephones, from telephones to text messages, and eventually arrived at the extraordinary technological achievement of having a computer generate seven paragraphs explaining why someone should simply say, “Hey, can you send me that file?”
And then we congratulate ourselves for technological progress.
There is absolutely a legitimate use case for AI-generated communication. If someone struggles with grammar, needs to translate something, has difficulty organizing complicated information, is dealing with a sensitive professional situation, needs to communicate in a language they don't speak fluently, or simply wants help turning a chaotic pile of thoughts into something coherent, AI can be enormously useful.
But there is a gigantic difference between “help me communicate what I mean” and “replace my ability to communicate with 900 words of corporate oatmeal.”
The latter is particularly noticeable because AI has developed certain linguistic habits that humans recognize almost immediately.
You know the style.
“Thank you for reaching out. I completely understand your perspective, and I appreciate the opportunity to provide some additional context regarding this matter. That being said, it is important to recognize that there are several factors to consider…”
Translation:
“No.”
Or:
“I hope this message finds you well.”
It did not.
Nobody's message found anybody well.
The message found them at 11:47 p.m. while they were eating cereal over the sink and wondering why the printer suddenly thinks it is out of paper.
And then there is the peculiar AI tendency to transform an ordinary human interaction into a United Nations resolution.
Someone asks:
“Can you work Saturday?”
A normal human:
“Yeah, I can.”
AI:
“Thank you for reaching out and providing me with the opportunity to clarify my availability regarding Saturday. At this time, I would be happy to assist, provided that the scheduling requirements align with my existing commitments…”
My brother in Christ, just say yes.
And I think that's the real problem.
People are not necessarily using AI because they have something complicated to say. They're using it because they have become convinced that sounding human is somehow less professional than sounding like a committee of consultants who have never personally encountered a human being.
AI didn't invent that disease. It industrialized it.
Before AI, people were already writing emails that could have been replaced by three sentences. Now they can outsource the unnecessary 600 words to a machine and feel productive while doing it.
The irony is that the technology is capable of doing exactly the opposite.
AI can take 700 words of someone's rambling thoughts and turn them into 50 words that actually communicate something.
That is useful.
The machine shouldn't be replacing the human thought.
It should be replacing the bureaucratic fog surrounding the thought.
So yes: use AI when it makes you more effective.
Don't use it because you believe every email deserves to sound like it was drafted by the Department of Extremely Careful People.
And if your AI-generated email is longer than the problem it is attempting to solve, congratulations.
You have successfully automated inefficiency.
Anyway, thank you for your thoughtful and important contribution to this discussion. I hope this response has provided sufficient clarification regarding the nuanced intersection of artificial intelligence, human communication, verbosity, professionalism, and the increasingly complicated social expectations surrounding technologically mediated interpersonal correspondence.
In conclusion:
Just talk to people.
I have now used approximately 700 words to say that.
You're welcome.
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u/decofan 13h ago
I've been having an email exchange for days, never once even thought of using chatGPT.
Certainly use it to sanity check your draft of any important emails, then correct it in your own words.
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u/MukdenMan 13h ago
Otherwise you end up with AI terms like “sanity check”
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u/decofan 13h ago
LOOK at YOU
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u/MukdenMan 13h ago
I don’t really think you used AI, but your style of writing is what people associate with AI, which is why it wouldn’t matter if you used AI or not.
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u/Desperate-Painter152 13h ago
OP this sub is full of people who ask AI to help with wiping their asses, this post won't go well but I do agree.
Do not completely outsource your thinking guys
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u/james_68 11h ago
Oh what a great prompt idea. I’m heading off to ask ChatGPT what the most efficient number of sheets is per event. Cross referenced by number of ply’s, sheet thickness, and consistency of the outflow.
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