Is an over-reliance on AI causing our communication muscles to atrophy?
I'm noticing something more and more - primarily on YouTube and LinkedIn - when encountering AI-generated content. It seems - to me, at least - more and more often to feel less and less human. My natural reaction is to simply skip it. When I'm interested in some sort of connection, I want an actual connection with the thoughts of another human being - not some algorithmic regurgitation. The most alarming thing, to me, that I've begun to notice more and more is the stark difference between the quality and feel of a person's communication when they are versus when they aren't using AI to generate "their" words. While I see this anomaly most often on LinkedIn and other forms of social media, it's alarming how often I'm beginning to notice it in everyday communication - especially in professional communication. I work in tech, so I've always been a bit of an outlier when it comes to vocabulary, spelling, and grammar; I seem to place a much higher emphasis on it than the vast majority of my peers. I've seen a lot of advice given - specifically about professional communication - that it's always a good idea to run it past AI before clicking send. On its face, this seems like good advice. However, the disturbing trend I'm noticing is that it has become blatantly obvious when most people are or are not using AI to generate their communication content. When it's just them attempting to communicate their own thoughts, their communication is littered with misspellings, incorrect word usage, grammatical mistakes, incorrect or completely missing punctuation, etc. - to the point where it's often difficult to decipher exactly what it is they're trying to say... So, what say you? Is an over-reliance on AI-generated content causing the quality of actual, human communication to lessen? Or, perhaps, has it always been this poor and it's just more noticeable now?