Ilia Gets AI‑Generated Spam After Hiring Post
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- Ilia posted in a “Who wants to be hired?” thread seeking work in hospitality, food tech, and automation, then received a generic AI‑generated email offering LLM integration services.
- Ilia pleaded for empathy, urging people not to spam job seekers and suggesting adding an empathy skill to Claude Code or using a Telegram bot for humanity.
- andrewzeno reported frequent junk emails from self‑proclaimed cybersecurity experts offering bug bounties, noting that most cold outreach now comes from semi‑personalized AI agents.
- chrismorgan observed that such contacts have been non‑human for decades and are essentially form letters with tenuous relevance to the recipient.
- HeyLaughingBoy noted that recent spam appears better targeted, prompting them to read the first few lines to identify the source of personal information.
- insane_dreamer suggested moving these messages to Gmail’s Promotions tab instead of marking them as spam, describing the volume as five times higher than before.
Why it matters: Job seekers lose time and emotional wellbeing as AI‑driven spam proliferates, while spammers gain cheap, scalable outreach. Email platforms face pressure to improve filtering, and users adopt workarounds like the Promotions tab, highlighting a growing mismatch between automated outreach and human expectations.
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