And I'm sure you can get away with it when you're sending them to people who aren't writers, just like I'm not great at spotting AI art. But why are all these nitwits sending them to the writers???

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It is hard for me to understand why people think these emails are well-written or effective, but that's really it, isn't it? genAI is basically a Dunning–Kruger Device. Folks really think they sound amazing because they don't have the skill to know they sound freakishly off-putting.

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I've gotten a couple lately that I actually think might have been real but I was so turned off by the emails that even if it had come from someone I knew personally, I wouldn't have wanted to have anything to do with it.

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I know one of us says this basically every day, but if you are an actual podcaster/bookstore/book club organizer... do not use chatGPT to write your pitch. We will delete it. We see 7-371 of them a day and we can spot them by the 5th word. It doesn't matter if you're real. We'll delete it.

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As a person who is FASCINATED by the role of shame in personal + collective sexual identities, I could write like 10 dissertations on Strike 3 Holdings but, uh, the story is about a company stealing IP so that its machines can replace human labor and it can keep all of the profit. THAT'S THE STORY.

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