Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to Simplified Speech, the Q-Lips series which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers. Joining me now to co-host this episode is Indiana. Hello, Indiana. Hey, Andrew. What's up? Not too much. How are you doing? Pretty good. It's going to be a busy week, but I'm here with you to end my Monday.
We're recording on a Monday and we have such an interesting topic to talk about. So I'm super hyped to have this conversation. Yeah. So today, everyone, we are going to talk about using AI to help you write personal messages. And Indiana, you were the brainchild behind this episode. So why don't I let you introduce it? Okay, so I teach English.
I'm a tutor or an English teacher to students online and for my intermediate or advanced students. One of the things that I love to do is try to find an interesting article or YouTube video to discuss in our lessons. And sometimes it's like really hard to find good material, like really interesting, engaging material to have a whole discussion about.
But this article that I found was super interesting. I found this article in The Guardian that basically was discussing, is it okay to to use AI, like chat GPT, large language model services, is it okay to use AI for personal messages?
Like, for example, if your friend's mom or dad passed away, and you did not know like how to express like, I'm sorry for your loss, you know, I'm there if you need me. and you really wanted to say the right thing, but you didn't know how to say it, is it okay as a friend, as someone in their life, is it okay for you to go to chat GPT, for example, and say, hey, can you help me write this?
So it's just this big question of like, what is the boundary? What are the lines with this? And I was like, wow. And all of the students that I've discussed it with were very interested and had very strong opinions about this. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to get into our conversation today and discuss this in more detail. And I'm looking forward to it as well.
I think this is a really timely topic and something that a lot of people are thinking about and using these days is AI to help them write. We'll get started with the conversation in just a moment. But before we do, everyone, I want to let you know about the helpful study guide that is available to accompany this episode. So in the study guide, you are going to find an interactive transcript.
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Chapter 2: Why is using AI for personal messages a controversial topic?
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So thank you so much for your support. And Indiana, with that announcement out of the way, why don't we get started with this episode? So just a moment ago, you mentioned that you read an article from the Guardian newspaper about this topic of using AI to help you write personal messages. And we'll link that episode in the description, everyone.
But I also wanted just to read you a short summary of the article so that we all have the same background knowledge going into our conversation. So Indiana, we'll discuss this article together in just a moment. But first, I'm going to read the summary here for everyone. So guys, the article is called, Hey, man, I'm so sorry for your loss. Should you use AI to text?
And the writer is named Adrian Matai. And Adrian Matai in this article explores this new AI trend, which is people using AI tools like Chachapiti or Claude or Gemini. I think those are the popular ones for writing assistance, right? For writing emails or school assignments. However... The article really focuses in on the fact that people are now using AI to write personal messages as well.
So things like birthday cards, text messages to friends, messages saying, I'm sorry for your loss, like these condolence messages that we send to people after a loved one has passed away, or even wedding vows. So in the article, the author looks at both sides of the debate And on one hand, some people think AI is a fantastic communication tool.
The article features an interview with an etiquette expert, somebody who is an expert about behavior and following the rules in good manners. That is what we call etiquette. So this etiquette expert says that AI can be really helpful to people who struggle to find the right words, and it can make your message sound more polite, more caring, and it can save a lot of time.
And the etiquette expert argues that using AI shows that you care enough to want your message to sound perfect. So there's good intention behind using AI. So it's okay to use it. But on the other hand, some psychologists and just many people in general feel that using AI to write a personal message is lazy and dishonest.
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Chapter 3: What are the potential benefits of using AI for writing personal messages?
I don't ask it to write it for me. I'm always very, you know, I want to learn. I want to improve. So I ask it to, you know, if there was a mistake in this message, could you point out one or two things that are unnatural? And then I'll try again. try to improve the message that way. So I do use AI sometimes with my personal messages when I'm writing in Korean, especially to my wife's family.
Not so much with my friends, because I don't care if I make grammar mistakes with them as much. But with my family, when I want to be more polite and make sure I'm not doing something incorrect, I will use AI in that way. And they're awesome tools, right? But yeah, just...
You know, if I were to write the message in English and then just be translate this to Korean and then send it or I don't know, write like it's my brother-in-law's birthday, write a birthday note and then translate to Korean and send it. That would be so superficial, so artificial. So I don't want to do that.
Yeah, it sounds like your main criticism, if I understand your perspective right, is that if you just throw a prompt into AI to produce a message for somebody in your life, it's like you're not even giving them the time of day, which means you do not really have any interest in them or care about them. Like, oh, messaging somebody in my life?
is such a chore is so not that important to me that I can just have my AI assistant do it for me, which is exactly how I feel about this. If I'm not putting words in your mouth here, I think that's what you think is the main problem here, right? It's like showing that lack of caring about somebody. Yeah, you summarized it perfectly. And I think this is interesting, right?
Because there are two different situations where I could see someone using AI to help them express a personal message. The first situation is like we just talked about where the person is really being lazy and they just don't care. They just want to write the birthday message or they just want to write whatever message it is.
as quick as possible, and they don't want to invest any emotional time into preparing that message at all. So they just say to ChatGPT, write me a birthday message to my best friend or something, right? To me, that is really not so good. And if my friends were using ChatGPT to send me birthday messages that I knew were prepared like that, I'd feel let down. I'd feel disappointed.
Like my friend... just doesn't care for me at all. They can't even take two minutes to come up with a personal note for me. They're just using ChatGPT. I would feel let down and disappointed in my friends if they were doing that. So that's the first group of people. The second group of people, I think, are maybe people who...
want to express emotion, who want to be caring, but they just don't know how to do it. Like maybe they're not in touch with their emotions or they lack the words, they don't know what to say. And so they actually really struggle with putting their emotions into words. And I think for that group of people, maybe GPT could be actually a good tool to use.
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