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I Received an AI Email

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Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by Oras »

jumploops wrote: post #23

I received a similar email today, from someone looking to be my "Chief of Staff/Head of Ops." The only problem is that they referenced a role at a company I'm no longer at. The, presumably AI, author crafted the email in reference to my former role at a different startup. After seeing this thread, I decided to follow up on my AI suspicions. Nothing conclusive, but that person is currently touting that they've sold th…

They use a tool with outdated data, and no one checks and validates when they do it at a scale.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by kibwen »

cranberryturkey wrote: post #15
namanyayg wrote: post #2

This is going to become more common everywhere. If the dead internet theory isn't already true, it is going to be soon. Such "personalized" cold outreach is seen as the next holy grail by marketers and will be a common sight on LinkedIn, Twitter, Email etc, soon.

What is the "dead internet theory"?

It was a joke from the 2010s that most of the people that you interacted with on the internet were actually bots, and that you were the only human using the web.

Now, in the post-LLM age, it doesn't sound like a joke anymore.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by names_are_hard »

cranberryturkey wrote: post #18
cranberryturkey wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the "dead internet theory"?

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As a flesh and blood human I take some comfort in the fact that the comment I'm replying to is still identifiable (with high probability) as written by a non-human. I wonder how long it'll take until that's no longer the case.

It may already not be the case. I'll probably never know.

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Post by kvdveer »

portaouflop wrote: post #28
dvrp wrote: post #19

Anti AI art people remind me of anti AI marketing people from hackernews. Guys, it’s a tool like any other.

IMO the issue was calling it “AI” - it just riles people up. It’s machine learning all the way down there is no intelligence involved

That's a bit of a misdirection. Yes AI is machine learning all the way down, just like you are biology all the way down. That doesn't make you not-human.

As TFA shows, this machine learning is almost indistinguishable from actual intelligence. It might not be sci-fi AI, but it certainly is artificial, and is is indistinguishable from intelligence. AI is a very apt description of what it is.

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