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You don’t need AI to write a love letter

Why do GenAI boosters want you to outsource your brain?

Published June 10, 2026 9:00AM (EDT)

For the past year or so, I’ve been checking in semi-regularly with the corner of Reddit in which people crowdsource variations of the same question: How to feel when someone in your life uses generative AI for human-to-human communication — the suspiciously well-argued apology letter from a mother-in-law, the stilted wedding vows, the Sunday sermons that suddenly seem both more earnest and more generic. Sometimes the communication in question features what are now recognizable as LLM tells, like an overuse of triadic phrasing (“My feelings for you are not X, but Y”) and em dashes. But more often, people on the receiving end just feel like something is . . . off.

Human brains function on a pretty strict use-it-or-lose-it policy: When they’re not engaged, they start to atrophy.

AI companies have been working tirelessly to stuff generative and agentic AI into every nook and cranny of our online lives. These might be helpful, anodyne retail chatbots; they also might be utter menaces like Google Docs’ Gemini pop-up. (It’s hard not to feel undermined when the AI is asking what changes it should make to a sentence I haven’t finished typing out.) The question of whether........

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