I’m sure you’ve seen emails from recruiters or other salespeople which contain personal details, as if written by an actually human being who intentionally wants to connect with you. I responded to one such email only to receive a rather generic response asking questions that could easily have been answered (or, at least heavily implied) from my previous email.

I just came across this service: https://www.artisan.co

Behold the future: computer generated, hyper-personalized communications that seem like they are written by a human being, but are totally fake. There was no human-to-human connection; only a cold, soulless algorithm that pretends to be a warm-blooded human.

Can you see the trajectory? We can no longer tell the difference between talking to a real person and “ghost”. Even if there is value in this tech per-se, how do you feel about being tricked into believing a heartless encounter is a genuine human encounter? Are we seeing a world come into being where you no longer can have any certainty that you are interacting with a real person online? Is this the kind of world you want to live in?