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One of the email services I use has recently taken to prefacing each of my incoming messages with an “AI overview.” One of these emails was from a fellow player in a concert band who also plays in some other groups. He had warned me that he would have to miss one of our rehearsals because one of his other groups had a conflicting rehearsal that he had to give a higher priority. A bit later, his conflicting rehearsal was canceled, so he emailed me that he would be at our rehearsal after all. That email was shorter than the