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How Overusing AI Tools Is Making Us Less Human at Work

What happens when even your friends use AI to settle group chats? A funny moment in a WhatsApp group reveals a deeper danger of relying too much on AI at work—and in life.

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Hello everyone. Welcome to another Five Minute Leader.

So I am a part of a bunch of different text thread groups, as I'm sure you are, where friends get together. Maybe it's messaging, maybe it's WhatsApp. So I'm a part of a few of these WhatsApp groups. And recently, in one of the WhatsApp groups, there was a little bit of a debate going on. The topic of the debate doesn't really matter, but people were going back and forth. They were debating. They were arguing.

And then all of a sudden, one of my friends puts a message into the WhatsApp group. And I noticed—well, we all noticed—at the end of the message that he put in the WhatsApp group, there was one line at the very end that said, “Here is a response for you that is both warm and neutral and friendly.”

And we all looked at that and we thought, wait a minute, did he just put this into ChatGPT and copy and paste the answer, but forget to remove that line at the end that ChatGPT gives?

So if you've ever used ChatGPT or Gemini or any of these AI tools, basically what happens is, you put in a prompt, you put in something that you want, it gives you the response, and at the very end of the response, it basically tells you what it did for you. And it'll say, “Here's a response that you wanted that's warm and friendly and neutral,” etc.

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