Everyone can choose to have AI help them write or not, but we’re past the point of needing to be lectured about it. When I’m at the store and see someone buying a greeting card with a poetic message that someone else wrote for them, I don’t give them a hard time. It’s fine.
@manton On the other hand, what would you rather get from someone - a “Hallmark” poetic message someone else wrote and the person only signed, or a handwritten, personalized note from the person written inside a blank card?
@manton I think this is a good example since it’s fine, if you actually read the writing and agree with it before giving it to somebody, but it’s perfunctory compared to actually writing it yourself
@apoorplayer I’d rather get a cake and a pony, but nobody ever thinks of that. More directly: I don’t mind a Hallmark card that includes a note – the combination of both is, of course, always an option.
@apoorplayer have you ever looked at dollar store hallmark cards? They’re like the generic of the generic brand.
@apoorplayer @manton been rocking the blank cards (and postcards!) for 25+ years now. Definitely the way to go IMO. We keep a stash of 100 or so…each available for any occasion.
@drwalt Since I’m a friend of yours, you won’t get the cake because health reasons, and you won’t get the pony because you’d have to deal with the horseshit. Unless, of course, you need the manure. I think I can manage the card.
@manton when there is an entire multi-billion dollar industry focused morning, noon, and night on insisting that we all must be using AI in every part of our lives, I think maybe it’s worth extending some grace to people who push back on that in less than temperate ways.
@petebrown Sure, that’s why I don’t call out anyone personally even when I read something that goes beyond “less than temperate”, which is what inspired my own post.
