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Anyone else notice an overnight change in coworkers email communication likely due to AI?

Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:02 pm
Posted by sidewalkside
rent free in yo head
Member since Sep 2021
4825 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:02 pm
It's funny seeing some of my colleagues who could barely type a complete sentence not long ago all of a sudden sending polite, structured and thoughtful emails now.

For the record I am all for it especially if it helps efficiency but I wonder if these people think they are actually fooling anyone?
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60184 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:04 pm to
No


Everyone here has a real job where we can’t be replaced by ai like welding


Sorry you work inside with the women baw
Posted by Stat M Repairman
Member since Jun 2023
3391 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:05 pm to
Yes. Can immediately tell when people using AI.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
72879 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:13 pm to
quote:

Can immediately tell when people using AI.


And my opinion of them is lowered.

You can use AI to do your grunt work for you, but when you send something in writing that has your name on it, you should have been the one who wrote it.
Posted by Motorboat
At the camp
Member since Oct 2007
24325 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:15 pm to
I have had a client suddenly start asking very in depth questions well beyond her vocabulary. It was very obvious.
Posted by Kingpenm3
Xanadu
Member since Aug 2011
9979 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:15 pm to
quote:

It's funny seeing some of my colleagues who could barely type a complete sentence not long ago all of a sudden sending polite, structured and thoughtful emails now.



Shouldn't your AI Bot be reading these emails for you?
Posted by Shexter
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Member since Feb 2014
21836 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:15 pm to
quote:

some of my colleagues who could barely type a complete sentence not long ago


Do we work at the same place?
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
53610 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:16 pm to
quote:

Can immediately tell when people using AI.


bullshite.

I don’t doubt there are cases like OP where it’s obvious.


But your line reeks of “they are writing better than me so it must be AI on general principles” that I see all too often.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106119 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:17 pm to
quote:

And my opinion of them is lowered.


I'm not making any accusations. But one of the characteristics of AI prose is using one sentence paragraphs.
Posted by Bigdawgb
Member since Oct 2023
4576 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:19 pm to
quote:

But your line reeks of “they are writing better than me so it must be AI on general principles” that I see all too often.


I mean the thread is titled a sudden change in writing, what else would cause the change??

I don't see many people going to phonics school on the weekends
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
53610 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:23 pm to
Except I wasn’t responding to OP, was I?

I was responding to a blanket statement made by someone else. The thread title doesn’t define context by everyone in the thread

It never has, anywhere on the internet ever. Folks go on tangents.
Posted by Stat M Repairman
Member since Jun 2023
3391 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:23 pm to
Nope. Ai got a distinctive sentence structure, tone and flow to it always using the queen's english. You read enough if it day-to-day and it stands out like a sore thumb.
Posted by Bigdawgb
Member since Oct 2023
4576 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:30 pm to
quote:


I was responding to a blanket statement made by someone else. The thread title doesn’t define context by everyone in the thread


Oh no gOtChA

You're replying to a guy who replied directly to the OP. The thread title obviously sets the context of the thread.

You know this, but now you're very obviously doubling down, happens all the time
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 2:31 pm
Posted by Marshhen
Port Eads
Member since Nov 2018
1114 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:33 pm to
quote:

And my opinion of them is lowered. You can use AI to do your grunt work for you, but when you send something in writing that has your name on it, you should have been the one who wrote it.


What about spell check?
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
98791 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:35 pm to
quote:

Yes. Can immediately tell when people using AI.



What's the trick to stump the AI bots? I was just on the phone with UPS and it was clearly an AI dbag and "she" kept using the wrong words. I saw a blurb a couple months back about how to stump them but I forgot what the method was.
Posted by Swamp Angel
West Georgia Chicken Farm Territory
Member since Jul 2004
10506 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:35 pm to
I have commenced to rahtin' up mah e-mails in sech a manner that the recipient can purty much figger out what mah accent sounds lahk when they read through it. This has purty enshored that they ain't gonna git the remotest idear that I would ever use AI to raht ennything.
Posted by jdd48
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Member since Jan 2012
24069 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:37 pm to
quote:

It's funny seeing some of my colleagues who could barely type a complete sentence not long ago all of a sudden sending polite, structured and thoughtful emails now.

For the record I am all for it especially if it helps efficiency but I wonder if these people think they are actually fooling anyone?


One day not too long ago I said something in a room full of people about "the day I need AI for e-mail is the day I need to retire..." Apparently almost everyone that was in the room is using AI for that purpose.

Oops.
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 2:39 pm
Posted by DinoSpumoni
Member since Jul 2026
65 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:39 pm to
100% - off shore IT comes across as more competent than on shore lately. Not saying much - t1-t3 on shore IT is packed with DIE employees
Posted by therabbit
B R ruh
Member since Sep 2019
289 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:41 pm to
On the other hand, I just wrote an email on Google and it rewrote it by default. So I had to go in and figure out how to turn that shite off. AI is getting pretty annoying. All these automatic changes can kiss my arse.
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Member since Apr 2024
12538 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 2:41 pm to
I never had time to do so much writing analysis when I was working.
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