Anyone else feel like work emails are now sounding like back and forth AI emails. Like I am using AI to answer my customers and sound polished, and it's obvious that they are using it as well.

 

Is this really the future of our communication. the new normal?

Like the fake enthusiasm: "I'm thrilled to hear the news was well received, and I'm equally excited to be working with you and supporting your..." 

 

No one really sounds like this. But lately all emails are sounding exactly like this.

Being able to recognize ChatGPT's linguistic style has ruined most of the internet for me. 

Is not only the internet sis.
We are AI generations too. All human beings. 
 

Edited June 19, 20251 yr by AvadaKedavra

That's probably part of it but corporate speak has always been bizarre and unnatural

They've always sounded like AI to me  like none of us mean or would otherwise use any of those words

...always been like this.

yes, this is why I go out of my way to show my personality in my work e-mails. I've never been called out for being unprofessional or anything but I make sure that they're bubbly and natural, and I feel like it's refreshing for the recipient. ill put jokes in there and stuff

well since I work with emails / back office. We call it templates 

I work at a job where I regularly send 50+ unique emails a day, and I have so many templates for each type of email I send.  It's obvious other people do too.  
 

at this point I almost prefer an unpolished email just because I know it's real.  

20 minutes ago, Sombre said:

Being able to recognize ChatGPT's linguistic style has ruined most of the internet for me. 

The craziest thing is looking back on pre-chatGPT internet posts and comments and even they seem like AI

Work emails require zero creativity, so it's perfectly fine to use AI for them. AI is actually perfect for replacing this type of mundane cookie-cutter writing. 

 

Even the most cutting-edge AI models are still terrible at creative writing, but they excel when it comes to work emails.  

Work emails always have been fake as hell. I literally never mean anything I say in them 

Depends on the industry, I remember when I worked in procurement, e-mails were a hot mess at times . While when I was taking care of tenders, they were as you just described 

18 minutes ago, shookspeare said:

That's probably part of it but corporate speak has always been bizarre and unnatural

Yes, some people have always talked like that. But I always kept my emails REAL. and now my company integrated AI to our outlook. yes its great with time saving and sounding polished, and we all end up sounding so un-human now.

as long as it gets the point across, idc

 

but in my job i'm normally not required to write long emails, although recently managers started to encourage us to use co-pilot (Microsoft's AI) to write reports for the people we work with and i just cannot get into it. i've tried it a couple of times but it just sounds so odd, fake, and non-specific? i get that it saves time but i would rather take more time and make it sound like it was written by me, a person that they know, than some computer gibberish. idk, maybe i'm being a boomer

23 minutes ago, Cain said:

They've always sounded like AI to me  like none of us mean or would otherwise use any of those words

"Thank you for your email and your inquiry on Project X. I will let you know ASAP when we have updates on that"

 

Translation: "I hope you die a slow painful death for disturbing my peace. I won't do a single thing for months and only do something once my boss has asked multiple times and I am on the brink of getting fired"

Edited June 19, 20251 yr by katara

I used to work for a bank so I've been speaking like this in emails even before AI 

Work emails are the type of stuff AI was made to replace, not making art 

 

Everybody knows they're fake as hell anyway so why waste valuable time on that?

with my project manager he's the exception but every other email i get definitely feels like a chatgpt moment 

7 minutes ago, katara said:

"Thank you for your email and your inquiry on Project X. I will let you know ASAP when we have updates on that"

 

Translation: "I hope you die a slow painful death for disturbing my peace. I won't do a single thing for months and only do something once my boss has asked multiple times and I am on the brink of getting fired"

"Hi Brenda,

 

Thank you for your e-mail!" (Even tho they just asked me a question, I have to thank them for it?)

 

"To answer your question, you may best be helped by someone from a different department" (***** I ain't the one, I don't know **** about this) 

 

"I'll refer you to my colleague Sander (in the CC) so that he can hopefully help answer your question. What I can tell you is that we've discussed some of these things with department X, I'll link the e-mail thread to that in the attachments" (I've done all I could pls leave me the **** alone, it's up to God and Sander now) 

 

Best regards"

 

Like I'm sorry how is this any different from AI

43 minutes ago, Cain said:

They've always sounded like AI to me  like none of us mean or would otherwise use any of those words

Ok this makes me feel better. Ive always edited that stuff out because I thought it was weird. but I guess this fakeness is already a norm.

10 minutes ago, Cain said:

"Hi Brenda,

 

Thank you for your e-mail!" (Even tho they just asked me a question, I have to thank them for it?)

 

"To answer your question, you may best be helped by someone from a different department" (***** I ain't the one, I don't know **** about this) 

 

"I'll refer you to my colleague Sander (in the CC) so that he can hopefully help answer your question. What I can tell you is that we've discussed some of these things with department X, I'll link the e-mail thread to that in the attachments" (I've done all I could pls leave me the **** alone, it's up to God and Sander now) 

 

Best regards"

 

Like I'm sorry how is this any different from AI

I thought this WAS AI? I guess I never perfected my corporate tone, so now AI is doing it for me.

it's funny because it wasn't until i started working in an office a few years ago that i realized i had a talent for writing very good professional emails and then just a ew months later, AI became mainstream.

tho i'm not evenmad because it's not a skill i'm particularly proud of 

8 minutes ago, Raphy23 said:

I thought this WAS AI? I guess I never perfected my corporate tone, so now AI is doing it for me.

Dnejs I worked for an embassy once, if I didn't sound like an avoidant robot there would be issues