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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

I’ve gotten a bunch of these from people, and I’m just… some guy. They’re very obviously people just copying & pasting messages that AI wrote for them, saying “send them to this guy, and he’ll complain for you, and then maybe a big tech company will help you”. It’s real fuckin’ terrible.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

404media.coChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsBecause big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Obviously, I’m a random asshole, and not a media company trying to get subscribers, so I don’t have to be nice. (I just ignore them.) But it’s really depressing to see how hopeless people are, and that they’re relying on tools that lie to them, to get help with platforms that hate them.

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

At one point last eeek on here I was getting beaten up for being both too critical and not critical enough of him. Man’s dead, folks… it isn’t something I think is gonna have much impact either way?

Andy Ihnatko
@ihnatko.bsky.social

I really didn't have time to correct my neighbor and explain that he shouldn't use the term "Super Intelligence," and then explain the unchanged fundamentals of what AI is, and that "artificial" is an important word because it's not actually intelligent. But I had to do it, even if it made me late!

Dumpling~
@lovelydumpling.bsky.social

You're having a problem with AI telling people to send you messages about their issues with big tech? You should send a message to Anil Dash. He'll complain for you and then maybe a big tech company will help you.

Kelly Hills, MPH
@rocza.bsky.social

Kind of reminds me of Consumerist from a decade ago. When Internet providers would ignore you and you’d have to write in and ask them for help with your Comcast bill (or whatever).