You’ve put your finger on my general concern.
These tools are defined by corporate marketing experts, constructed by corporate programmers, trained on materials intended to persuade corporate executives to support projects or grant budgets, and refined through in-house alpha testing.
(Gross oversimplification, yes, but dammit, this is an argument I’m making! )
At this moment in time, the “many of us” who have learned how to read and write in more traditional modes know how to adopt or reject a machine-generated analysis. This is already changing as adolescents and young adults are exposed to a pedagogical environment that embraces AI as a teaching tool.
In another thread we’re discussing Microsoft Copilot, though the concern there is more about marketing and stealth subscription tactics. My main objection to the Copilot experience is that a Copilot icon sits in the lefthand margin of each paragraph I write, beckoning me to tap it and magically see a better paragraph appear for my approval.
Don’t need it. Definitely don’t want it. And wondering what Lex or Copilot might do with these three sentences?