> Nobody wants to hear from your AI bot, least of all when it’s pretending to be you, laying it on thick.<p>The people who are doing this don't care about <i>you</i> though. They're playing a numbers game and if this form of "communication" proves to be more than a flash-in-the-pan, it would be an indication that the return realized exceeds the cost by a meaningful enough margin.<p>It's the same thing with most of the popular scams today. Many people look at them and wonder, "How did anyone fall for that?", but they still exist because they work on enough of the people to make them viable.
One of my favourite things to do with AI video pitch creator products is to put a paragraph of text into the <i>first_name</i> / <i>company_name</i> form fields on their "request a demo" function, to see how ridiculously fast their AI bot will read it out.
I sort of agree. But honesty if you're cold emailing me I don't super care if your a real human or not. It's still not cool. Don't do it.
Interestingly, I wish there were the opposite of a do-not-email list for this kind of thing. I think it might actually be somewhat fun to get <i>actually relevant</i> email from companies working on interesting products in an extremely targeted way.<p>Then companies could just go and grab a lead list from there, with some metadata, and if too many people report it as spam (you could use a private relay on the site, for example, like mailinator) you lose access. Good citizens stay. And charge a nominal fee to enforce the reputation system.<p>I'm sure this is one of those "congratulations you have reinvented system Z" problems
This is true for "AI content" in general. People feel betrayed when they find out, and publishers try to hide it best they can.