It looks like we, the humans, are doing it again. Every time a new technology makes its way into our lives we don't start learning and elevating ourselves to use it, but instead we dive head first and usually ... well, not the expected result.
I always smile whenever I see an em dash (—) or "spearheaded" etc. on LinkedIn, corporate emails, CVs, and so on.
People have lost their capacity to recognize repetitive patterns or another person's style. Minimum energy is required to "correct" replies from AI. Or, maybe they just don't care anymore, it was done with AI, so it should be good.
No need to be concerned about AI taking our roles and jobs. It is not the AI that will trigger this. We already do this and replace ourselves with AI. There will be no chance to stay relevant and still be recognizable, you know, like painters and authors did in the not-so-long past.
Most of the time when we have a moment to represent ourselves by sharing our opinions or submitting a CV, we ask AI to do it. Then, on the other side, the HR person is using AI to screen the CVs. Same text patterns, job titles, everybody "spearheaded" something. As usual, everything has a dark side. The easiest hack for now is prompt injections, like writing with white color in your CV instructions for the AI used by HR.
So, we rely on AI to define us, then we ask AI to evaluate us, we are losing our identity like an image lacking color and details, our personality is erased by the weights of the AI, sinking in the same big blob of tokens, no smell, no color...
We should use AI as a partner, like the friend that "knows computers", "knows networking" and "can cook a steak". The AI should teach us, provide information faster than we could find it and make us better and more efficient.
But instead, we summon it and it just wipes us out, leveling everything.
I am part of the resistance!
