This. If you can't be arsed to personally write an email with your own brain about working together creatively, that tells me that you are not worth working with creatively, because you're already taking shortcuts to mediocrity on the EASY stuff, never mind when it gets DIFFICULT.
Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it!
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The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” s…