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Robert Pendergrast's avatar

Thanks for raising awareness of this. I recently received 2 such unexpected pitches for a multinational book club, and was suspicious. But your post makes it clear this is part of a bigger pattern. I wonder what the long term effects on our psyches will be of not being able to trust the things that we read. It's not good.

Colette Lafia's avatar

I had the same thing happen to me, and like you I engaged with the first email, but quickly realized something fishy was going on. Thanks for exposing this!

Janet Bond Robinson's avatar

Thank you for quoting them so expansively. I recognize the voice of chat GPT. After you do many queries about a variety of topics on chatgpt, you begin to see the voice. It's interesting that even though it is supposed to mirror my voice when it speaks, I see the same voice in your scam emails that I hear. I was delighted to realize that I could pick it up.

This is a real threat to authenticity. I hate that there's just another reason to be skeptical of communication.

Stacey Atkins's avatar

Thank you Carl for the warning.