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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 TeMPOraL »

elorant wrote: post #34
ChilledTonic wrote: post #6

I’m actually thrilled by this, as it means all the hack marketers that spam my inbox incessantly with whatever product they’re hucking - this time for sure perfect for my business, in spite of the fact I’ve ignored their last ten emails - are all out of a job, and good riddance. The author sounds unfamiliar with this brand of marketing email, so I can see why it would come off disquieting to find it’s all AI - but it…

Someone will just pack this into a product and sell it to marketers.

And use it to market the shit out of it. If marketing finally collapses under the weight of its own bullshit, I'll be celebrating.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by lelanthran »

Tao3300 wrote: post #40
hunter2_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> After using chatgpt regularly, it's answers It isn't responding with answers. It's responding with probable verbiage. An actual "answer" requires a type of interpretation that it doesn't perform.

> probable verbiage I like that phrase. Also, how'd you get my password?

So that's what it is. I just saw '****' ...

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by nostromo »

themanmaran wrote: post #8
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.

It's truely a race to the bottom. Cold email response rates are already ~1% industry average. Every outbound tool is adding the AI customization, and there is a slew of 'AI sales rep' companies promising more and more personalized spam. There will likely be rewards at first. An uptick in response rates as most of the market won't recognize emails are AI generated. But because it's trivial to send AI personalized emai…

1% is also about how well this worked, according to the sender's blog post.

10 signups / 970 emails sent

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by iJohnDoe »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the "dead internet theory"?

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Not bots. Simply outsourced to India, Malaysia and China. These countries were extremely happy to get this type of work.

Now this work will be outsourced to AI with even greater efficiency.

I think the real dead internet today and is a bit deceiving (not sure a better word) are examples of online games where you’re playing against bots or everyone assumes they are playing against bots. One of the aspects of the early days of the internet that was really cool and is now arguably not real anymore.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by card_zero »

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.

Like a duck decoy, or that little portable printing press Jim Rockford had for creating fake business cards in a hurry.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by sureIy »

zandert wrote: post #37

Really makes me appreciate that unsolicited emails are illegal in some European countries like Germany

I think that they’re as illegal as they are in the US, not more. I think it’s perfectly fine to “cold-call” people but then you’re not allowed to send more emails unless they subscribe or respond.

In reality it’s very easy to end up subscribing to newsletters and even my European embassy subscribed me to their event newsletter in Thailand—of course I never agreed to any of that.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by lostlogin »

nostromo wrote: post #64

Email already feels pretty dead. This will just hasten the move to walled gardens like Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, where it's harder to be a bot sending spam.

The death of ‘cc’, ‘bcc’ and ‘reply all’ will not be mourned.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by MikeGale »

I've found myself trying to avoid email, for the enshittification that I've not been able to avoid.

This will make it worse.

Solutions? At least some could involve key exchange. How about a bounty of some sort on spammers?

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