To be clear up front, this has never happened to me.
But I’m sure somewhere, this has. And plenty of variations of it. It’s just too easy to send messages nowadays, probabilities suggest that eventually, you’re going to make a mistake.
I think in the future, it’s really likely we’ll have built in tone and content checks on our messages and emails, just by default. Small language models are getting good enough to do some cursory checking of sentiment and content, to ensure you don’t accidentally send something to the wrong person.
What’s neat about this is that these models will be small enough to run locally on a device (and soon, processors and GPUs will be tuned for AI on devices), and because it’s local, it’s private by default.
While there’s a lot of focus on the big, job-replacing, long-chain automations that AI unlocks, it’s good to remember that there will be a plethora of small little innovations like this that’ll make all our lives’ collectively better.