[runamuck]

I get dozens of cold emails and LI messages from sales/ recruiting a week. Only about one per year writes "I read your blog and liked your point about xyz." I always take that call. My LI (and HN) profile opens with my blog, so if they did 5 seconds of research they would find it.

[neilv]

Just this week, I got my first AI-automated one, following a pattern of "liked your X, especially Y".

I hope the people doing things like that realize that's awful for humanity, and they stop doing that.

[everyday7732]

The problem is it isn't really people doing that. All it takes is one person to set the process running and forget about it. Soon enough all exploitable systems are exploited if the cost of doing so is low enough.

[neilv]

And not only crime. I think it's going to be a lot of people trying to hustle via mass-automated fake-human interaction -- whether it's sales, influencing/advertising, recruiting, dating, or whatever.

And they're being encouraged towards that: even tech companies with reputations to lose are already aggressively offering to take over as someone goes to write an email or text, and proactively "summarizing" the one-to-one human communications of others. But there will actually be demand for one-to-many fake one-on-one interactions, in the hustle culture, and doing it to strangers will seem no worse than what they've already done: corrupting pre-existing interpersonal relationships.

[AznHisoka]

I get those emails too but they’re always followed by “btw we sell so and so, do you got time for a demo?”

So when someone tells me they like my blog, i’m afraid to respond because they’ll just pitch me in response