Some of them definitely used ChatGPT, I can see the signs of it. But that doesn't explain why I received 100s of applications this time around vs maybe a dozen or so before.
Maybe instead of sending you one email they hand wrote, they send you 20 emails from ChatGPT from different email accounts to increase their odds of winning the bid?
Could be but it doesn't really need to be the case. Everyone can send many times more customized applications per unit of time, perhaps so quickly that its not worth much consideration of an offer before it is ready to send.
Hi. Would you mind to elaborate on which signs of ChatGPT you have detected? Not only out of curiosity: I've read that detectors are more prone to emit false-positives when analyzing text written by foreigners and, since that's my case, I'd like to learn how to avoid planting such signs into my own writings.