Worst AI use: signaling you don't care about things you should
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-12
The author argues the worst AI use isn't doing things wrong, but "signaling you don't care about things you should care about": PhDs not writing their own abstracts, restaurants letting AI draw their own menu items, and a vendor charging $10k for media work without even writing their own sales sheet.
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