I see it every day. Cold calls, emails, or chats, all generated by AI and automation, only to be met with another AI sending a programmed response. What is the real purpose here? Who is “converting” whom?
But the funniest thing, and what turns my stomach, is right here on LinkedIn: Someone creates a post with AI so that people comment with a “keyword” (e.g., “INFO,” “SUCCESS,” ‘BABAS’). The idea is that, when they comment, a bot sends them a message with “the key to success” or “the course that will change their life.”
The absurd thing is that you see those comments and they are also automated! Not to mention the “likes” or “views”… it’s all a facade. A circus of automations where no one really interacts, but the metrics are inflated as if they were the next unicorn.
Have we really reached this point of saturation and dehumanization? Or have we become so comfortable that we prefer a machine to talk to us rather than a human, even if it doesn’t make sense?
I read them (if they’re not bots, of course).
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