The second-order effect of widespread adoption, of course, is that humans learn to distinguish GPT translations from actual communication, and learn to infer “ah, I see he was really mad, he had to run his actual message through GPT”. Actual angry messages would then convey even more anger, since the person had the option of passing them through GPT, and chose not to do it.
As an aside, the NVC versions are still weirdly self-centered, they’re pure statements of personnal preference with no attempt to understand the other person’s point of view. And in a weird way, “I feel angry and betrayed” packs more punch than “fuck off!”, the latter is emotional and said in the moment, you know the person who said it will probably regret it, but the former feels like it was carefully examined.
Overall I think it’s an interesting idea, much worse sounding apps have been very successful.
The second-order effect of widespread adoption, of course, is that humans learn to distinguish GPT translations from actual communication, and learn to infer “ah, I see he was really mad, he had to run his actual message through GPT”. Actual angry messages would then convey even more anger, since the person had the option of passing them through GPT, and chose not to do it.
As an aside, the NVC versions are still weirdly self-centered, they’re pure statements of personnal preference with no attempt to understand the other person’s point of view. And in a weird way, “I feel angry and betrayed” packs more punch than “fuck off!”, the latter is emotional and said in the moment, you know the person who said it will probably regret it, but the former feels like it was carefully examined.
Overall I think it’s an interesting idea, much worse sounding apps have been very successful.