AI Written, AI Read
One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.”
A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT or other AI tools at work. Nearly 70% said they did so without telling their managers.
As Microsoft and Google accelerate the AI arms race in every communication tool, it will be interesting to see how workplace norms keep up. When we all have tools to create endless streams of content, we’ll also need tools to filter through endless streams of content.
John Herrman had an interesting take a few weeks ago in a New York magazine editorial titled “The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived.” John wrote:
“Are you excited for your co-workers to become way more verbose, turning every tapped-out “Sounds good” into a three-paragraph letter?
