I immediately remembered myself writing birthday congrats with LLMs and myself pushing every email through Claude, putting linguistic perfection over authenticity.
Being charitable, one could argue that you spent extra time because you cared - which, hopefully, is what your friends are doing. Some people send sympathy cards from Hallmark for the same reason - to express what they find difficult to express. Is it really any different? Something to think about in this age of LLMs.
I immediately remembered myself writing birthday congrats with LLMs and myself pushing every email through Claude, putting linguistic perfection over authenticity.
Being charitable, one could argue that you spent extra time because you cared - which, hopefully, is what your friends are doing. Some people send sympathy cards from Hallmark for the same reason - to express what they find difficult to express. Is it really any different? Something to think about in this age of LLMs.