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#138: Do you pass the Turing test? - by Haley Nahman

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Maybe AI is only as unsettling and formulaic as we are.

One of my hidden talents is knowing how to phrase tricky work emails. I rarely have use for it anymore, but when friends ask me how to put something to their boss, I’ve been known to feed it to them to the letter. I used to think of this skill as a rare bit of overlap between my forgotten HR career and my current work as a writer. It wasn’t until I saw a recent TikTok of a woman flaunting this same ability—to “professionalize” any given sentiment—that I understood it as something sinister. In the clip, which appears to be a segment from a talk show called “The Social,” the hosts toss out…

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