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steve_ample Apr 1, 2026 +376

Well, duh. It shows contempt for your audience if you think you can not properly craft a message to convey particular points in specific ways.

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d4nowar Apr 1, 2026 +113

This is also why it's really insulting to get ai slop from coworkers.

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muzitron69 Apr 1, 2026 +6

True and I wish we didn’t use ai, but it feels like our underpaid corporate jobs want us to be more robot and less human. So might as well send an email written by a robot.

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NezumiAniki Apr 1, 2026 -16

Think of it as a filter that lets you know who's not a human being and can be treated any way you want. Instead of having to actually communicate with person to understand that they have no soul you can understand it instantly with AI.

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kokodokusan Apr 1, 2026 +5

That's exactly what we should be doing more of dude. Dehumanizing each other! It always makes things better. Thank you for this enlightenment.

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Wuncemoor Apr 1, 2026 +6

Such a shitty way to be

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AccomplishedLeave506 Apr 1, 2026 +21

This doesn't help me since I'm in the UK, but it's the right move. I got a response to a query I made to companies house the other day that was almost certainly written by AI. If they didn't read my email properly then I'm going to potentially get fined as their system is broken and marking me as doing something wrong, incorrectly. It certainly looks to me like AI spam so I doubt anyone has actually acted on the problem and fixed their issue. Bloody disgraceful.

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AssistX Apr 1, 2026 +4

This ban is only for images and videos as far as I can tell.

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jeffeb3 Apr 1, 2026 +9

I don't want to bother reading anything a human couldn't be bothered to write.

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vocal-avocado Apr 1, 2026 +3

Absolutely. It baffles me how many people think it’s normal or even good to create unnecessary prose using AI when bullet points would convey the message much better. That being said, I’ve had good results using AI when writing to bureaucratic, old fashioned institutions - like embassies. They would ignore my pragmatic mails and courteously reply my AI-generated ones. These people seem to appreciate unnecessary bloat. 🤷‍♂️

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PlasticExtreme4469 Apr 1, 2026 +3

It also opens another door to espionage, if politicians communicate using AI.

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1HOTelcORALesSEX1 Apr 1, 2026 +1

It only takes 15 words to compromise an LLM

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ledow Apr 1, 2026 +6

"If you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?" wins again.

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Faalor Apr 1, 2026 +16

If you had read the article, you might have noticed this sentence in the **first paragraph**: > The European Union’s main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.

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Spoonerism86 Apr 1, 2026 +18

Over-reliance on AI erodes one's ability to do the very same tasks. I'm not saying we should avoid using it but as humans we should be able to generate 95% of the content in general. Also, if you're a professional creating and publishing official communication for the EU, I'd expect you to do the very same things without AI.

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bodmcjones Apr 1, 2026 +3

I have a colleague who uses grammarly, has for years, and it was never a problem until this year when the darn thing seemed to go into overdrive - seems like now it is vastly more aggressive, it's crazy. I've no problem with classic grammarly but what they've done recently is aggravating.

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solapelsin Apr 1, 2026 +1

My university did this for any written assignment. Using generative AI was firmly against the rules (obviously), but Grammarly was accepted, as long as you included a disclaimer stating that you had done so. I think it was mainly because we had hand in all our work in English (because the professor was from the UK), despite us not speaking English as a native language. It really intimated a lot of people. They knew their academic material, just struggled finding the right words/phrasings/conjugations sometimes.

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UDLRRLSS Apr 1, 2026 -16

That is a very shortsighted view point. When compliance asks me to generate a DR plan for an application to cover a data center outage, and the application is only using regional services in AWS, then using AI to create that document is a perfect use case for it. It’s not contempt for the audience, it’s that AI is going to breakdown every component of the architecture, what services it uses, identifies that it’s regional or global and provides links to the documentation identifying that. It’s just data aggregation, no need to have some skilled worker spend hours creating this document when AI does the same thing in a more consistent format in seconds.

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Curious-Row2410 Apr 1, 2026 +23

The article and comments are about communications, not technical documentation and if you didn't have AI brainrot you'd have been able to read that.

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lurkANDorganize Apr 1, 2026 -2

Lmao. Its definitely wrong and evil but humans are dumb as f***. They eat this shit up.

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helm Apr 1, 2026 +56

Content: **images and videos**

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cmd-t Apr 1, 2026 +26

Politico refusing to say Trump and co use FAKE images and video to LIE instead stating they’re using it to “get their point across”.

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Wurschd Apr 1, 2026 +100

"While Brussels’ stance is designed to protect the credibility of messaging, it is also raising questions about the EU’s ability to remain relevant in an era of political communications in which the creative use of AI is on the rise." This is starting to get really ridiculous...

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TemporarySun314 Apr 1, 2026 +28

"if you don't post weird ai slop of how nice it is to bomb foreign countries, or how your president is the greatest of all times, then you are outdated and irrelevant" Real life politics is not Twitter or LinkedIn. We should hold governments to higher standards than some low effort influencers. Not to mention that most AI use in politics is neither creative nor political communication, but more propaganda...

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Successful_Buffalo_6 Apr 1, 2026 +6

This is honestly disgusting.

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IndieRus Apr 1, 2026 +14

I love EU even more now!

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Sassy_Bandit Apr 1, 2026 +6

So glad people are starting to see the gap between the hype and reality on this shit

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b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh Apr 1, 2026 +3

Thank you. It's unprofessional and disrespectful to the recipients. Although that should really be common sense, to have it formalized is also common sense.

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SP1570 Apr 1, 2026 +8

Well done...AI as an analytical tool is pure genius, the rest is for fraudsters

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Happy_Feet333 Apr 1, 2026 +5

I'd say that it's pretty bad as an analytical tool as well. It will still present outdated information as fact, even when the information is irrefutably proven wrong. As in, ask any AI to bring up a list of members to the Washington Post's editorial board. It will give you a list of 10 people, all right. But one is dead. And three no longer work for the Washington Post. And it's missing the replacement members. So an 8 out of 14 error rate is atrocious. (4 members gone, 4 new = 8. 10 + 4 replacements = 14.)

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TacitCrying Apr 1, 2026 +1

I tried it. The AI went on a search that included the Washington post itself, explained there is no public list of members made available by the washington post, explained that as of 2025/2026 we know the opinions section leadership, and then explained that there were significant resignations and hirings in 2024 (with names). I then went and had a quick manual search and most of the findings is indeed of opinions columnists. It seems to me the AI's response is more accurate in facts than your comment, unless there actually is an official list buried away somewhere that I couldn't easily find.

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PensiveinNJ Apr 1, 2026 +3

Why were they ever allowed.

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ConinTheNinoC Apr 1, 2026 +3

Thank god. Knowing how bad AI is at everything i wouldn't want it being involved with the governing body of the EU.

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Everyones_Dead_Dave Apr 1, 2026 +5

I'd put money on that they wrote that official communication using AI..

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Wurschd Apr 1, 2026 +23

The ban is on images and videos.

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Everyones_Dead_Dave Apr 1, 2026 +4

Stop poking holes in my bad jokes

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Wurschd Apr 1, 2026 +2

Haha, consider it done! No more jokes debunked. What else can I help you with?

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Prasiatko Apr 1, 2026 -1

At least part of this was concerns about how copyright safe such generated images are.

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