Listening to interactions between others and AI feels like listening to someone else's dream

Everyone has had a dream that was incredibly interesting and left the sensation of the experience clearly lingering when they woke up.
Your heart is pounding, and tears are actually streaming down your face. It is strange how you want to tell someone about such a realistic dream. Since the emotions you felt at that time were genuine and very dramatic, it must be human nature to want to share those feelings with someone.

At Fenrir, depending on the department, it is encouraged to post a "word of the day" as a substitute for a morning greeting.
This "word of the day" is the perfect place to record the content of a dream. This is because you can write down the emotions you just experienced while they are still fresh. I, too, have frequently recorded the content of my dreams as my word of the day.

For example, a word like this.

There are many others. In fact, when I searched Slack for "From:@MyName Dream," I was surprised to find that I had posted about it seven times. If you have a "word of the day" culture at your company, please try it out.

Stories of dreams others have had. When you see this, didn't you think,
I don't care...

The emptiness of a dream ending

Why do dreams that strangers have feel so much like "I don't care"?
Specifically, why is it something that feels "interesting for a moment but that interest quickly fades away, leaving a sense of emptiness"?

"I had a dream that it was my university entrance exam next week, but I hadn't studied at all. Every time I flipped through the reference books, there were only things I didn't remember, and I felt incredibly anxious and desperate, thinking I would definitely fail!"

When I hear this, I can empathize with the dream itself, saying, "I have dreams like that too. It's stressful, isn't it?" You can imagine the fatigue when you wake up in the morning.
And perhaps you empathized with that anxiety and despair for a moment. It's an important exam, yet you haven't studied at all... I think you imagined that situation and felt a bitter taste.
However, that empathy is immediately betrayed by the words, "...is the dream I had." Even though I went to the trouble of empathizing with the storyteller, it wasn't a real event. Strangely, humans seem to feel "cheated" by this, and are enveloped in an indescribable sense of emptiness.
The person telling the story has no intention of deceiving you. This is because, for them, that anxiety and despair were things they truly felt, and the emotions themselves are facts. That is why the more dramatic the dream, the more they want to tell others about it in search of empathy.

(Some of you reading this far might think, "I also write my dreams in my word of the day... everyone must think I'm annoying..." but rest assured, they don't think that. This is just the human reaction when hearing about "a dream a stranger had." Dreams told by people you know well enough to work with are funny and interesting. This is because the background of "that person" is added, and it becomes interesting because of them. I also like hearing about dreams that my acquaintances have had.)

Now, haven't you felt this feeling of listening to someone else's dream in other situations recently?
You think you're listening to their own story, but at the very end, you're let down...
Yes, it's not a dream ending, but an AI ending.

Interactions between others and AI are like dreams

Suppose you watched a certain movie. It was a story where the protagonist's actions were controversial and interpreted differently depending on the viewer. Imagine when you find those impressions on social media.

Someone on social media: "I want to affirm the protagonist's choice in this movie. It is true that many people were sacrificed because of that choice. However, if the protagonist hadn't made that choice, the family they cherished more than anyone else would not have been saved. I think that resolve and love are real."
Me: "Yeah, yeah... that's one interpretation of the work... this person values the love of those close to them..."
Someone on social media: "...is what the AI said."
Me: "Oh... (deflated)"

The emptiness of the phrase "...is what the AI said" is similar to a dream ending. I believed it was a thought you came up with yourself, empathized with it, and was trying to deepen the discussion, but just by adding "the AI said it," I feel like I've been cheated and am struck by a sense of emptiness. I fall into the same feeling as "I had a dream that..."

When you are told "I made some materials," you look at them, and when you send your impressions about the content, you are told, "I made it with AI..."
When you see "I had an AI write this" added to the end of a good piece of writing.
It is natural to feel the same way as a dream ending. This is because you are confronted with the fact that what you were empathizing with was not the person's own words. If only the words "the AI said it" hadn't been there, I could have believed it was real.

In the first place, isn't listening to interactions between others and AI, or having them hinted at, similar to listening to someone else's dream story?
In fact, AI provides answers according to the user's questions and context. When you ask a question without a clear correct answer, it answers in a way that sides with the user. Although AI has an image of answering from an objective and neutral standpoint, in reality, that is not the case; it merely presents an answer prepared just for the person asking the AI.
In the case of the movie example earlier, the person who made the statement is not simply conveying what the AI said as it is. They must have expressed their opinion precisely because the AI's words were close to their own opinion and they could empathize with them. AI provides an explanation desirable to that person based on past interactions and the questions asked, and the person takes it as their own answer.
In other words, while it is a clear fact for that person, it is something that others cannot empathize with, which could be called an event that happened in a dream.

The major difference between AI and events in a dream is that AI can output answers containing knowledge that is not inside that person's head. In a dream, you cannot fluently read a language you have no knowledge of, but an AI would likely translate it correctly.
This leads to the feeling that when you face generative AI, the other party is an objective existence.
However, in reality, the interaction with AI itself is like talking to yourself in a mirror. It is a highly personal experience, created by humans and AI guiding each other, that only that person can truly understand. Revealing the interaction itself is the same as telling someone about events in a dream.
Failing to realize this and adding 'and so the AI said' might unintentionally leave the listener with the emptiness of a 'it was all a dream' ending.

The person is responsible for the AI's answer

What is output at the end of an interaction with AI is something of value. There must be something you wanted to convey or discuss with that output. How can you avoid ruining it with an unintended sense of emptiness?
The answer is simple. Either clearly state at the beginning, 'The AI said this,' or better yet,do not add the punchline 'and so the AI said.'
The things, answers, and ideas produced at the end of an interaction with AI are not the AI's, but the person's own. They are things that the person must take responsibility for. When sharing them, you should be prepared to present them as your own words (which is why you must carefully examine whether they infringe on anyone's rights, and take responsibility for them).
If you cannot take that responsibility, it means it has not yet solidified as your own opinion, so it is better to keep it to yourself. When you convey something with the preface 'The AI said this,' unless the listener is very interested in you, they will feel a slight sense of frustration.
This is because the interaction with generative AI itself is the result of that person's highly personal exchange, andis the same as an event in a dream that only that person knows about.

The AI's answer is the answer of the person who output it, and it is that person's own responsibility.
People are interested in the person telling the dream, not the content of the dream itself.
The debate over how much value there is in things created by AI has not yet ceased.
On the other hand, the fact that 'the person themselves' who utilizes AI has inherent value will remain unchanged forever.