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This ‘anti-Grammarly’ AI tool adds typos to your emails on purpose (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Aatube@piefed.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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"I tested Sinceerly by cold emailing 5 Fortune 500 CEOs. 4 CEOs replied. Of those replies, each was under 10 words. 2 replies had typos. One reply called me Larry (my name is Ben)."

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[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 104 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

the fact the world functions at all while running on matryoshka doll levels of bullshit and duplicity is equal parts impressive, terrifying, and depressing.

Think about this for a moment.

We made bullshit generators that ingest all the actual knowledge we feed them and manage to vomit out bullshit that's so close to perfect most of the time that we now need a second bullshit generator to re-bullshit that output into a more palatable form of consumption for us. And it's being sold to us for an additional $4.99 a month.

Fuck me.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

while running on matryoshka doll levels of bullshit and duplicit

That works all long as the world has enough cheap energy to sustain all that. It's not like some idiot might block the world's energy supply one day.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

’s not like some idiot might block the world’s energy supply one day.

I'm starting to think that might not be such a bad idea. Investments in renewables are up, and governments around the world are reminded once again that it's better to be economically independent from untrustworthy dictators.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

This product is a bit of a parody. The free/paid tier is mocking grammarly

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Then, the bullshit recipient uses a bullshit summary generator to extract compressed bullshit, so they can choose one of the bullshit responses automatically generated and offered to them.

The goal of both, sender and recipient, is to do as little as possible, but fake effort and formality.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I don't need AI to write and email for me, I can do that myself.

I don't need AI to add typos for me either, I've got that handled as well.

[–] dan@upvote.au 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

which Horwitz is charging $4.99 a month to use after a three-email free trial

what. Why does a thing that inserts typos into your email need a monthly subscription that costs as much as other services that have far higher costs? What's changing about typos month-to-month that people need to always be on the latest version?

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago

Harvard startup bros have learned anything with cultural relevance and good branding can make money, even if the service doesn’t meaningfully improve your life

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

idk that somehow makes it even funnier to me.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because it’s a service using cloud AI. Processing text uses tokens, tokens cost money, hence the subscription fee.

It’s a dumb app - deliberately so - but it costs money to run and a one-off payment won’t cut it if people start using it to modify hundreds or thousands of emails.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it really needs AI, something this basic should be able to use a tiny AI model that can run locally. Google are working on building small models into Chrome for example (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in). It really doesn't need a huge model.

Several mobile apps bundle an AI model with them. Samsung phones do a bunch of AI things on-device, including object and face recognition in the Gallery app for photos. There's no reason an extension couldn't do that.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

does it need to use AI though?

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a good point.

Imagine just a script that randomly replacing various homophones like their, they're and there.

Or has a percentage chance of swapping two letters because you types too fast.

Or just a table of common misspellings would be enough.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

i was also thinking of replacing letters with ones close on the keyboard or removing letters

[–] rounding_error@lemmy.today 22 points 4 days ago

,, How can we make the world worse, as a joke? Guys that would be so funny. “

🙄

[–] Billygoat@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My first thought was “how is this anti-German”, then I went back and reread the title. 😂

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 3 days ago

Now you can look as dumb as you actually are with these two convenient paid services.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

AI for Nigerians?