Sinceerly<\/a>,\u201d which has missed at least two opportunities by not naming itself either \u201cSinceer.ly\u201d or \u201c[sic].\u201d The app promises to expunge the telltale signs of AI composition from your emails: \u201cKill the emdash! [sic] No more \u2018not just\u2026\u2019! Add some typos!\u201d<\/p>\nI fed Sinceerly the second paragraph of this post, which you might notice intentionally contains multiple AI writing tropes that I crafted the old-fashioned way. The app has three settings, which are \u201cSubtle,\u201d \u201cHuman,\u201d and \u201cCEO\u201d (appreciate the distinction between Human and CEO). And Sinceerly\u2019s efforts at rewriting my ghastly paragraph went as follows:<\/p>\n
Subtle: \u201cAre you a secret ChatGPT user concerned that your emials read as AI slop? Here\u2019s the thing. That\u2019s not just a problem, it\u2019s also an opportunity. It\u2019s a chance to use another AI tool, and you know what? That tool exists right now. It\u2019s a tool that shows the importance of credibility, trustworthiness, and integrity. You could say the app is quietly changing how people write.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human: \u201cAre you a sceret ChatGPT user worried your emails sound like AI? Yeah, that\u2019s a problem. But it\u2019s also an opening. You can use another AI tool, and guess what? It\u2019s already here. It\u2019s a tool about credibility, trustworthiness and integrity. The app is changing how people write.\u201d<\/p>\n
CEO: \u201cwriting an email that doesn\u2019t sound like AI slop isn\u2019t just a problem\u2014it\u2019s an opportunity. there\u2019s a tool for it, available now. it prioritizes credibility, trustworthiness, and integrity. the app is reshaping how people write.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is interesting. There are some nice touches: the CEO\u2019s disdain for initial capitals and their professionally clipped delivery, the typos, etc. But I don\u2019t know that anyone would mistake any of these for human-written copy now that we\u2019ve become accustomed to the tropes contained therein. In fairness, I can\u2019t imagine any LLM these days turns out prose quite as obnoxious as the example I provided, but I\u2019m surprised some of the most prominent AI shibboleths\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s not [x]. It\u2019s [y]\u201d and the rule of three formulation involving three words that are largely synonymous\u2014remained unscathed.<\/p>\n
The real question, though, is whether this whole thing is, y\u2019know, serious. I had some trouble getting the app to work, and eventually reached out to its developer, Dan Horwitz, a genial MBA student at Harvard. I put the same question to him, pointing out that while my initial assumption was that the app was going to be rather tongue-in-cheek, the website seems very serious about the idea.<\/p>\n
Horwitz laughs. \u201cNo,\u201d he reassures me, \u201cIt is tongue-in-cheek.\u201d<\/p>\n
The website is awfully deadpan, then. \u201cYeah,\u201d he says. \u201cThe whole thing is meant to make people think twice and have a little fun. It\u2019s closer to satire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, some of the best satire falls into the category of things that make you do a double-take and ask, wait, is this real? On that note, Sinceerly is a success\u2014but don\u2019t be surprised if you see people using it for real. An AI correcting the mistakes of another AI to generate an email that\u2019ll be read by another AI? It\u2019s LLMs all the way down, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the human race has developed a tool that lets everyone write emails that sound like a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,59666,305356,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-630187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-grammarly","11":"tag-sinceerly","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}