"✦ Would you like help with that?"
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You think this is an exaggeration, but didn't they actually make a whole series of ads showing that you can use AI to write "heartfelt" messages and order "thoughtful" gifts for your family when you can't be bothered to do it yourself? So you can go through the motions of appearing to care while being completely disengaged from your loved ones?
At work, there's occasionally a volunteer activity to write e-cards for kids at St. Jude's. There are some guidelines, as well as templates if you just don't know what to write. Last time the powers that be pushed AI at us, someone gushed that they loved using AI to come up with messages for these cards, an activity that is already so low-effort and distant as to be almost meaningless.
You know, I think I know a couple of people who would love to have an AI help them go through the motions of appearing to care while being completely disengaged from rgeir loved ones.
Hell, I can see the appeal of that myself: No more negative social consequences from someone noticing you're too burned out to care about anything anymore and taking it personally.





























