The ideal scenario: you write a few bulletpoints and ask Copilot to turn it into a long-form email to send out. Your receiving coworker then asks Copliot to distill it back into a few bullet points they can skim.
You saved 5 minutes but one of your points was ignored entirely and 20% of your output is nonsensical.
Your coworker saved 2 minutes but one of their bulletpoints was hallucinated and important context is missing from the others.
Microsoft collects a fee from both of you and is the only winner here.
"Hey, whatcha doin?"
"Oh hi, yea, this car has a slight misfire on cyl 4, so I was just pulling one of the coilpacks to-"
"Yea alright, that's great. So hey! You _really_ need to use this tool. Trust me, it's gonna make your life so much easier"
"umm... that's a 3d printer. I don't really think-"
"Trust me! It's gonna 10x your work!"
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I love the tech. It's the evangelists that don't seem to bother researching the tech beyond making an account and asking it to write a couple scripts that bug me. And then they proclaim it can replace a bunch of other stuff they don't/haven't ever bothered to research or understand.
I see email blasts suggesting I should be using it, I get peers saying I should be using it, I get management suggesting I should use it to cut costs… and there is some truth there but as usual, it depends.
I, like many others, can’t be asked to take on inefficiency in the name of efficiency ontop of currently most efficient ways to do my work. So I too say “ChatGPT said: …” because I dump lots of things into it now. Some things I can’t quickly verify, some things are off, and in general it can produce far more information than I have time to check. Saying “ChatGPT said…” is the current CYA caveat statement around the world of: use this thing but also take liability for it. No, if you practically mandate I use something, the liability falls on you or that thing. If it’s a quick verify I’ll integrate it into knowledge. A lot of things aren’t.