Cheap Agents, Alumni Shirts, and Elias Thorne

What it is

Daniel May on what cheap AI agents are already doing to inboxes: agent-written cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, and the recurring fake expert who turns up everywhere once nobody checks the work.

Why I recommend it

Free to read. Worth twenty minutes if you send or receive cold messages: it shows exactly what automated outreach looks like from the other side, and why a message that reads fluently now proves nothing about whether a person wrote it.

Topics

#ai ethics #ai-agents #ai-ethics #cold-outreach #free #reading #scams #technology-and-ethics

Added Sep 22, 2026 · 0 opens