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by mketab 282 days ago
Great feedback, a couple of clarifications: It is not an email harvester. The reason for collecting emails is to be able to send kind messages. If someone wants to unsubscribe, they can easily do so by clicking the unsubscribe button in the email they receive. Geographical position is optional. You’re right that it can be misused in the wrong hands. The intent for requesting geographical information is: A. Showing the country counts, which indicates how many people across the world have sent these messages. B. Displaying it in the email so the receiver can see the place from which the sender has sent it. But again, this is optional, as I mentioned earlier. The AI-generated message is a secondary option. The “how it works” section explains that you can craft a message in any language yourself. The AI then checks the content to ensure it is not harmful, and it can optionally translate it if you write it in a non-English language. And I completely agree with you that education is paramount. Thanks for bringing these matters up so I can clarify.
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You say it's not an email harvester. But who are you? Are you an unkind person who tells lies about your true purposes? We don't know. Think about how this looks to someone who doesn't know you.

What the world needs is kindness. Real kindness. But it also needs people who understand basic epistemology.

That’s a fair assumption. We also need people who can trust with caution, otherwise, there wouldn’t be any transactions or exchanges in the world, since every form of transaction or exchange involves an element of trust.
I can trust with caution. THIS looks like a scam, with “kindness” as bait.

And if it isn’t a scam, it would remain a creepy application of AI that cheapens the idea of kindess.

I don't know if it is an email harvester or an AI experiment. But when I saw the email field, my first thought was, "Why does this service need my email to send my anonymous kind thoughts to someone?", and you lost me there - I am not going to trust a service that I know nothing about with any personal data, especially one where such personal data isn't really required for the purpose stated.
I respect your decision, and wish you the best.
do you send marketing emails to the account holder?
I don’t have a marketing agency or anything like that.
That wasn't my question.