On Wednesday, next Wednesday, a week on Wednesday, in two Wednesday’s time, three Wednesday’s on, or any other temporal variant, and including regional dialects are all totally alien concepts to it. And god forbid you discuss more than one timescale or event in one email.
What I do fear is that for those that do heavily invest, they’ll be required by the likes of Microsoft to begin to speak in ways that Copilot can parse and ‘understand’. Which in larger organisations will shape the way that they communicate with others, and it’ll spread. In the same way that American corporate speak, or Agile terminology has infected the rest of the world.
Our interactions, the things that make us most human, will be modified for the sake of corporate benefit over the coming years.
Language is a wonderful thing. It deeply saddens me that this isn’t some fringe theory, but an inevitability.
Context and nuance is going to be erased wholesale from captured information… which will also be filled to the brim with inaccuracies.