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Please don’t make your emails longer with AI.

Of all the emotions I expected out of this week’s Google I/O keynote, “dread” was not on my short list. Google has spent a couple of decades creating products that make my life easier. This week, it demonstrated the exact opposite: a way to make communicating with other people worse.

. At several points throughout the keynote, it demoed a system called “Help me write” — which rewrites simple prompts in Gmail and other apps as more polished paragraphs of text. ButGood writing can delight us with an intriguing turn of phrase. It can tell us something about how a person thinks and feels. Or it can offer some kind of useful detail about the world. And there’s no reason AI can’t play a role. I’ve seen authors use generative tools to createor summarize data in a readable way.

Let’s look at one of the examples. Early in the keynote, a presenter auto-generates a job description for a textile design position that they send into the world. Later, another presenter responds to it, supplying the following prompt:Help me write works its magic and produces the following:Thank you so much for reaching out! I am very interested in the Senior Textile Designer position at Cymbal.

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