One of my favorite tech essayists, Cory Doctorow, wrote a great essay recently making a prediction about one effect AI is likely to have.
(I suggest you read it! But I’ll summarize.)
In it, he details how he used a “plausible sentence generator” (an AI large language model tool) to write a letter of complaint to an airline and make it sound like it came from a lawyer.
The idea of a letter like that is that it signals the recipient, “I’m willing to pay an expensive lawyer just to write this …