[bronson]

So the author sent spam that they're not interested in? That's terrible.

[jdiff]

One additional bit of context, they provided guidelines and instructions specifically to send emails and verify their successful delivery so that the "random act of kindness" could be properly reported and measured at the end of this experiment.

[twoodfin]

I think the key misalignment here is whether the output of an appropriately prompted LLM can ever be considered an “act of kindness”.

[mckn1ght]

At least in this case, it’s indeed quite Orwellian.