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AI;DR This is the broader symptom of a global toxic corporate culture. We are afraid that one badly phrased message can hurt our reputation or even our jobs, s
by gabosarmiento 29d ago
AI;DR This is the broader symptom of a global toxic corporate culture.
We are afraid that one badly phrased message can hurt our reputation or even our jobs, so optimizing every message with softer wording, more political correctness, less directness is safer.
But the real problem is the culture underneath it. If people are constantly worried about how every sentence will be interpreted, eventually they stop speaking plainly, stop challenging decisions, and sometimes stop speaking up at all. So this is like attacking the consequences not the root causes. There should be some sort of measurement of how broken is a community or a company by letting a bot scan Slack/Teams and let the bot remind everyone the importance of lowering the fake index.
- stratospheric72 29d agoCompletely agree. I wonder how much this varies across cultures on the country level (like how people say the Dutch are blunt). I think that indirectness emerges when a critical mass of people decide that they're better off in an indirect culture. i.e., thinking "nobody is straightforward with me, but that's worth it because it means I don't have to be straightforward with anyone else". And of course that's infuriating for anyone who would rather take the opposite deal!
- gcr 29d agoPeople don’t rely on AI because they’re worried about political correctness. That’s a pretty weak assumption.
- andai 29d agoOnce per decade or so, a man decides to tell the truth, and gets his life destroyed.
- rglover 29d agoPeople need to internalize what Bernie Mac says here [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t35rEpCur2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t35rEpCur2E
- Cameri 29d agoI think you are assuming that people use AI to communicate with others because they don’t want to hurt their feelings: it’s likely hardly the case. The article here is just virtue signalling corporate version. Just tell the person doing it not to send you messages produced by AI directly and candidly. It’s clear you are not afraid of “hurting their feelings”. It’s rather weak to need a website to speak for you but maybe I’m wrong.