I have no idea if it’s spam or engagement farming. One of the messages was about how great my recent articles were and if I wanted to interview this guy to basically us my “podcast” as an advertisement for this guys vaguely related golf platform. Note: I don’t have a podcast.
Does he like my articles or does he have a spam agent emailing everyone writing about golf? I can’t know.
The other was like, a guy in the comments who was asking bizarre leading questions, basically trying to get me to explain how my product works, where if he’d actually read the series, I literally wrote an article about it. His account on the forum was just bizarre.
Maybe someone interested? Maybe an engagement bot. I literally can’t tell.
I agree shouting into the void isn’t particularly helpful, but if it’s happening now, we need to prepare for a future where nobody wants to communicate online anymore. I sure don’t want to.
haha, yeah those sound weird. In fairness though, people would basically get the same stuff pre-AI. I do find myself wondering quite often if I reply to someone, if I'm just replying to a bot. Sometimes it's easy to tell if something is written by AI but it might be tougher in the future.