I have found myself writing about the risks of relying on AI to actually be intelligent quite a bit in recent months.
Call me cynical, but I have become increasingly frustrated at the apparent outsourcing of creativity and, crucially, attention to detail that AI facilitates. In the right hands, AI is a magnificent tool and can be very powerful.
Unfortunately, all that glitters is not gold and I am sure that I am not alone to cringe when (very important) first impressions are shattered by unfortunate outputs of what is clearly an automated process.
I wanted to share one recent example that demonstrates this point. I am not going to name the sender as, quite frankly, I do not think that they deserve any credit (?) for their outreach campaign but this is an email that I received on a Friday:
Doing the job that I do and understanding how these platforms work, I assume that the clever little AI bot looked at my LinkedIn profile and devised an irresistible me