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who talks like this
People who work at Microsoft.
Source: Me, I used to, was driven moderately insane by their highly advanced and pervasive outbreak of corpospeak.
They are impressed by LLMs because they reproduce their inane dialect.
chatgpt
A company that forces you to write a "Connect" every half-year where you reflect on your performance and Impact™ : (click here for the definition of Impact™ in Microsoft® Sharepoint™)
Gods I hated writing my connect
Business grads who think it makes them sound smart. I have to deal with way too many of them. It's infuriating, because behind it all I know just how dull most of them truly are.
By creating a language only they are able to speak and interpret, the managerial class is protecting its existence and self reproduction, while keeping people of other classes out or only let them in after passing through a proper reeducation camp, e.g. MBA program.
Ah so like Latin
Gotta come to Latin's defense here -- you can write proper literature, science, poetry in Latin, and people did so for thousands of years. This stuff? Nah. (I am not literate in Latin.)
More like a version of Esperanto with proprietary extensions to make it incompatible with standard Esperanto.
People that add no value to society...
I have no doubt that a chatbot would be just as effective at doing Liuson's job, if not moreso. Not because chatbots are good, but because Liuson is so bad at her job.
Some C-Suite executives that think they're important/interesting enough to hold a Ted Talk. Usually it's just buzzword babble, but it occasionally escalates.
imagine Sephiroth writing business books
Wouldn't let him near any books. Dude always destroys the spine.
dude. spoilers.
...Lotus, you clever bastard.
Hr. Somehow this is considered acceptable speach in those formal circles.
An AI chatbot, that’s who
Indistinguishable from a business idiot.