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OK, controversial but… If the text is written so well that you cannot tell it is AI and it actually relates to your interest, how is it a bad thing? The author would have never caught on if they did not see that blog post. I understand reading that you feel “tricked” but if they never saw that blog post then what? And if you are getting those mails at a rate of 100 per hour, then I can see the point, since its spam. But you had spam way before AI.
One could see it as a bad thing as the AI is lying on two occasions, and that the letter was sent in bad faith (laziness, automated ads, perhaps even passing off others’ content as your own/wording).
In extension, or rather because of the two first points, one could call this a “scam for Tim’s time”.
The scam in OPs post might just be worse than regular scams, not because it is dangerous, but because it makes us lose trust in others. How hard would it be if you actually happened to be a Nigerian prince who wants to share his wealth? Well, now smaller developers can finally find out!
