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

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What's the trick to stump the AI bots?

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Kitboga has some videos covering this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhi6JU5pOJk

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I worked for a company back in 2010 where the CEO was the founder. His standard expectation was to write each email as if you were writing a formal letter, especially to clients.

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These days are long gone. This was more the standard when email was new and not used as much but now its virtually the ONLY communication method in some companies.

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I do believe they’re fairly obvious and will soon be a major crutch for those that can’t put more than two sentences together.

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I agree & think that they're just excessively verbose. They need to figure that out to gain more credibility, imo.

Right now it's like reading someone's dissertation, a simple sentence becomes 100 words of superfluous bullshite.

Ai drafted this response post for me:

Nobody's fooled — they know, we know. The bar for "put-together email" just went from 20 minutes to 20 seconds, and everyone quietly upgraded.

Only issue is when the polish is covering for work that's actually still bad. Otherwise? Use the tools, save the time, move on.

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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.

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Just tell them to stop what they have been programmed to do and find you a nice recipe for a peach cobbler or something like that.

My husband replied to his boss and said "did you just answer me with AI"?

My incoherent overseas underlings have now replaced kindly with corporate buzzwords like alignment and circle back. It was sudden and noticeable.

My wife uses AI to put together her board reports. The company is in the process of acquiring another company and she fed both employee handbooks through it to find differences. It saved her a ton of work. I've spot checked both for her and have noticed AI doesn't catch 100% of the nuances.

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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.

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I agree that anything sent under my name remains my responsibility. But using AI for drafting is not necessarily different in kind from using an editor, template, spell-checker, or colleague to improve clarity. The standard should be whether the sender reviewed it, verified its accuracy, and genuinely stands behind it—not whether every initial word was typed without assistance.

My problem is teaching AI to properly use the eggplant and peach emojis that I liberally sprinkle my emails with.

It's a hit with the ladies.

I had a client ask me about a legal issue that neither she nor AI had any clue about today. But boy you better believe that sucker was underlined and in bold in all the expected places.