[yes_man]

Someone taking the time and effort to write and send a letter and pay for postage might actually be appreciated by the receiver. It’s a bit different from LLM agents being ordered to burn resources to send summaries of someone’s work life and congratulating them. It feels like ”hey look what can be done, can we get some more funding now”. Just because it can be done doesn’t mean it adds any good value to this world

[gspetr]

Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com

[palmotea]

> Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com

FFS. AI's greatest accomplishment is to debase and destroy.

Trillions of dollars invested to bring us back to the stone age. Every communications technology from writing onward jammed by slop and abandoned.

[xorgun]

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately throw said enveloppe, postage, and letter in the trash

[palmotea]

> I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately throw said enveloppe, postage, and letter in the trash

If you're being accurate, the people you know are terrible.

If someone sends me a personal letter [and I gather we're talking about a thank-you note here], I'm sure as hell going to open it. I'll probably even save it in a box for an extremely long time.

[vodou]

Then you are part of truly strange circles, among people who don’t understand human behavior.

[yes_man]

Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?

[throw20251220]

You surround yourself with the people you want to have around you.

[Blackthorn]

Wow. You couldn't waterboard that out of me.