#GenAI has already wasted my time ~twice~ Edit: three times just today: I was looking how to fix #Dropbox in #Linux, notably the fact that it doesn't want to use a NTFS drive and also that the menu doesn't show up on click.

First, looking for solution on the ZorinOS forum, I read through a long answer to a similar problem, thinking "that doesn't really solve anything but I'll keep reading just in case" - only to realise with a disclaimer at the end that it was AI-generated. Why do people do this??

Second, I sent a help request to Dropbox and get an answer asking for some more info. As I was writing an answer to that I realised all the info it asked for was already in my original post.. And then saw, same thing, that this answer had been AI-generated with a disclaimer at the end of the post.

Third, Dropbox answered back, this time signing as a 'human' but with a clearly AI-generated answer, see below.

If they have to give an AI-generated answer (why though??) they could at least put the disclaimer at the top so we don't waste our time reading the whole thing?? 🤦

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