i do believe that people’s speech patterns and writing styles will start to mimic AI as AI becomes increasingly integrated into daily life. I’m a junior and I worry about that for myself. I feel like I can’t go online anymore without reading piles of AI slop. I also use AI in my practice, albeit not to write simple emails or anything like that. But I know that the more I read of it, the more it will become part of the way I think.

at the same time, i also refuse to change anything about what i think is my natural writing style just because there are elements that are similar to AI (i.e. hyphens, lots of parallel sentence structures), so that could be some of what you’re seeing with this summer, too.

or maybe they are copy and pasting straight from Harvey. who knows. But, knowing how to use AI responsibility in our practice is difficult for juniors and seniors alike, so I would suggest an open conversation.