One thing I’m increasingly hearing about from conference delegates and clients is AI over-engineering. You may have seen it yourself. A forty-page PowerPoint presentation, beautifully presented, without a single original thought or understandable call to action.
AI has made over-engineering effortless. Every email arrives well-structured and every presentation looks creatively expensive. However, this ignores the point of communication, which is to start (or sometimes end) conversations. Unfortunately, because of AI over-engineering, now nobody can locate the point.
Not only that, but research from the University of Florida found professionals rated AI-written messages as less sincere once they knew a machine wrote them and yet, they were still willing to send them.
More alert employees (usually those who are focused on the quality, not quantity of words) notice this and the integrity of the person sending them is thus undermined.
This AI polish is easy to mistake for thought and care, yet it’s rarely that. Go ahead and send a short email with your own typo in it or a 6-page presentation deck that focuses on key messages rather than fluff. Your reputation will be enhanced for sending it and you never know, it might be the only thing that people read.
