> and that'll get worse the first time someone launches a good AI assistant to handle email / chat trained on your writing style
That one might actually be easy to solve: all we need is to normalize the idea that you're personally responsible for whatever your email/chat assistant AI says or does in your name. After all, it's you who are making a decision to reroute other people to a bot.
(Many would say just using such assistant in the first place is disrespectful towards the people trying to reach you. I personally don't agree, because in my experience, those who'd complain about it are exactly those I find even more disrespectful, as they tend to impose themselves, interrupting me with random inane nonsense. Yes, I suck at chit-chat.)
I think this idea is actually the default, so all we need is to keep it alive, to protect it from all kinds of AI assistant startups willing to dump billions of dollars on marketing campaigns trying to convince everyone that half-broken assistants are good and fine, you should use them and should not be blamed for occasional mishaps.
I agree, but I'm not sure that's sufficient. ChatGPT is pretty good and say that the next version actually works well enough to handle most non-close social interactions. Then I run into you in person and realize you have _no_ idea of what “we” have been talking about — I'm not sure there is a good way to repair that.
Ideally, we'd require labels but there's no easy way to enforce that without something like random auditing of AI implementers.
That one might actually be easy to solve: all we need is to normalize the idea that you're personally responsible for whatever your email/chat assistant AI says or does in your name. After all, it's you who are making a decision to reroute other people to a bot.
(Many would say just using such assistant in the first place is disrespectful towards the people trying to reach you. I personally don't agree, because in my experience, those who'd complain about it are exactly those I find even more disrespectful, as they tend to impose themselves, interrupting me with random inane nonsense. Yes, I suck at chit-chat.)
I think this idea is actually the default, so all we need is to keep it alive, to protect it from all kinds of AI assistant startups willing to dump billions of dollars on marketing campaigns trying to convince everyone that half-broken assistants are good and fine, you should use them and should not be blamed for occasional mishaps.