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That was just cold email, so the authors could have probably ignored it

I doubt anyone on the other end will read their reply

Even if they do, it is unlikely that they will stop sending their AI spam outreach

This is just the normal state of the web now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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> I doubt anyone on the other end will read their reply

Hell, I doubt anyone on the other end even wrote the original email.

yup, it's probably an automated system end to end.

and it's definitely getting the spammers a lot of leads and sales.

Probably not as many as they wish, or as you think.

yes, but then they couldn't have blogged about it

exactly

Maybe some people will be shamed that they’re not only spammers but spammers whose product may as well be a machine that automates the consumption and enjoyment of ice cream?

I think you're missing the point, it doesn't matter if it was spam or not - The point is that automating creativity is not a useful way of facilitating content creation. We should be automating the tedious behind-the-scenes stuff.

There is still tedious stuff when your doing content creation. Like if your hacking a website together and need something that doesn't look bad as your favicon. maybe your making a 2d game and need a bunch of tree pictures

It's "you're" x 3.

R u OK?

lots of artists are using generative AI to help them make art.

While what you're saying is morally and ethically correct, unfortunately we have entered times where the capitalistic machine doesn't find this to be true.

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