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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are people really using GPT to turn brief emails into paragraphs of waffle?

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people, sure. It’s usually more something like “rewrite my (casually written) text to sound like a professional email” and ChatGPT is gonna add all the business lingo fluff.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What a terrible way to waste everyone's time.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah but seems more of a cultural issue than ChatGPT's issue if businesses expect emails to have a certain form.

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

The recipiant just copies the message intp chatGPT and asks it for the summary.

Its like a shitty cypher

[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

What's becoming mainstream these days:

Sender uses ChatGPT/Copilot/Bard to turn content summary into a big professional Email.

Receiver uses ChatGPT/Copilot/Bard to break down the big professional email into summary.

Time is saved but what a wastage of electricity (LLMs need GPU computation for faster output)!

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I use it to rewrite my rants as formal letters to our landlord.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I use it to do the opposite, reduce my word count, and change the tone to helpful instead of frustrated and angry.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 years ago

Probably.

I've seen a lot of junior staff who don't know proper email etiquette put a lot of formality into their emails. It isn't a stretch to get an AI to add it for you.