I highlighted what I might have wanted to carry over to a more professional rewrite. (If the filename was real, I’d sanitize it so as not to single out any one employee, but I do think it’s an effective example.)
Using these powerful tools
is lazy, unprofessional, andcould result in a catastrophically expensive, embarrassing mistake
if someone’s not careful :)
Source: Apple Intelligence on Apple.com
OK, this is kinda funny. I wanted to make sure I’d actually seen this in WWDC. Turns out they showed a different rewrite (embedded below):
I think I see what happened. The [macOS] rewrite shown is more 1:1, but comes out sounding goofy (very LLM). On their site, they didn’t want to show that, but then they used an [iOS] rewrite that missed e.g. the filename used as an example. Even someone skimming the email should see that filename was garbage and be afraid of getting called out in a meeting for typing a name like that in the future, so I think it’s a miss not to have it.
Not to make a mountain out of a small example or two, but I do hope folks are aware they’d do best to read every word of anything generated for them. Reminds me: I’m excited for that word-by-word suggestion feature as it allows for one-by-one modifications to be very intentionally made.
The right looks like an over-the-top business email I would send to my friend…as a joke. The only thing it’s missing is a reference to synergy.
Like others are saying, I would ignore this email so fast.
Not only is it writing the emails it’s going to read them and summarize them to the end user. That’s kind of crazy when you think about it.
It is crazy. It completely homogenizes communication by turning everything into generic business jargon mush.
Nobody I know likes the soulless corporate culture, why would we want to write like HR?