Very close - because I'm a pedant I counted the words. The prompt was 95 words, the response was 98 words... it basically added 'Dear Parent Name' and called it done!
That's another good point, this should just be an email template. The effort/time/resources put into writing the prompt is way higher than just having a stock template you drop a name into. Not to mention the computing resource required to generate the response.
Most of the uses of generative AI people pitch are either “stock letters” or “our business processes are rubbish so let’s hope the magic pixies can fix it”
Exactly this. What can AI provide that is better than writng the prompt as a first draft, thinking about it for a couple of hours or coming back to it a day later, and editing it into robust, usable text? It's not only laziness - the tool is encouraging competent people to mistrust themselves!
I'm sure outsourcing literally all of our thinking to an inefficient machine that randomly makes stuff up in hard to detect ways will have no negative consequences at all.
I would reply saying it looks like you left the prompt in your email to me. But I'm glad you did because I prefer my child be tutored by people who don't rely on resource-wasting LLMs for their regular business correspondence.
Unfortunately, it has now become easier to say, "Write the whole thing for me," than, "I'm struggling with this one word or phrase. Can you offer some alternatives?" I think the latter is putting it to use better.
How, exactly, is the AI version an improvement on the original message? The tutor must be wasting a lot of time generating (and hopefully checking) slightly paraphrased versions of simple communications. Bonkers.
It reminds me of the anti-plagiarism tsar at my old place, who used to 'chatgpt' my policy documents by removing my name, adding his name and submitting the document to the relevant committee. It never occurred to him that I might submit my own work to Turnitin before letting him see it!
The fact that the prompt is as long as the answer is mind-boggling, but also why wouldn't the tutor _already_ have a stock 'I'm booked up but here's how to get on the waitlist' response saved somewhere?!
It looks like the used the “Send link to this conversation” function without understanding what it means, which also indicates they don’t even know how to use the very AI they are outsourcing their most basic of tasks to.
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The prompt was longer than the response !
I’m always stunned when people push stock responses as an amazing use for AI.
Most of the uses of generative AI people pitch are either “stock letters” or “our business processes are rubbish so let’s hope the magic pixies can fix it”
I would reply saying it looks like you left the prompt in your email to me. But I'm glad you did because I prefer my child be tutored by people who don't rely on resource-wasting LLMs for their regular business correspondence.
Is she the sort of person that would shout into a microphone?
Wtf?