Human-AI Collaboration

I went into a conversation with ChatGPT thinking I needed help writing a comment. There was a post I wanted to support. Parts of the experience were familiar to me, and other parts were not. I was trying to figure out how to participate without making the conversation about me. Normally I might ask AI to help me word the comment. This time I asked it to ask ME questions. What did I want to accomplish? Was I trying to share my own experience, or was I trying to support the people sharing theirs? And did I actually need to comment to do that? That's when we started talking about liking the post, saving it, sharing it where appropriate, and helping the original message travel without putting myself in front of it. I hadn't started out thinking of those as my options. I was so focused on what to SAY. I think about that now whenever I'm tempted to ask AI for the finished answer. Sometimes the more useful thing is another question. Have you ever decided that the best way to support a conversation was not to add your own voice to it? …more