: (I felt for the first one because it summarized my book without proposing anything. I thought it was a genuine reader who had asked a chatbot to send me an appreciation email.
So I replied "Don’t use a chatbot to write me an email, tell me what you want"
And then I received a very long generated apologize "You are right, I should have been upfront about what I was offering" with a PR offer.
So the email address was directly connected with the bot itself!
What could go wrong?
ploum
npub18a…3untn
2026-10-03 22:14:18 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…kapj
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