Kayla Eilhart (en)
Is it just me or do you also feel that LLMs are making many really old and semi-reliable services unusable in ways you didn't anticipate?  Right now I'm looking at my e-mail inbox, which is full of clearly LLM written spam directed at me based on my official job description. And it's not only my work e-mail - more and more often they're guessing e-mails on my others, non-work related domains, sending me a lot of slop about cybersecurity products and services I don't want nor need. For the first time in twenty years, I literally have to block whole domains of legit businesses, because their "agents" are totally out of control and are spamming me with offers, requests for consultations etc.

I'll have to take a day or two to just rebuild the whole structure of mail addresses I use, change a lot of online accounts to new naming schemes and rebuild filters ....

It all feels like a weird attrition warfare.

#slop #spam #mail
Apr 2 at 11:32amWeb
Show threadDaniël Franke 5d ago
@kayla Definitely not just you, this shit is ruining so much, and it's sickening. I've been purposely moving away from stuff that start to push it without opt-outs. Hell, it should be opt-in, but they will never do that.
Show threadOzzelot 5d ago
@kayla
I feel like ddg, even the noai. version, is doing llm summaries in place of some text previews. "Learn about..."
(It used to do this for even wikipedia, but it seems to not be doing it anymore, hence the sketchy "history" example)
Show threadOzzelot 5d ago
@kayla
It smells like bullshit done by bing, which is the thing they wrap, but it could literally just be ddg
Show threadOzzelot 5d ago
@kayla
But anyway, even when I look up some article and get past this type of bullcrap, the article tends to be written by an LLM and therefore useless or at least untrustworthy. We're wading through hyperscaled spam.
Show threadGuloGulo4d ago
@kayla
Postup profesionálního IT ?
Žádné upozornění těch firem, že možná mají problém ?
Pokud to nejsou podvržené domény, váš postup nechápu.
Show threadKayla Eilhart (cz)4d ago

@GuloGulo

Ty domény nejsou podvržené, je to prostě standardní business spam, co tu byl vždycky - ale s rozmachem LLM nabral grády a ty tooly, co používají obchoďáci, se prostě snaží potenciální kupce v oboru dohnat všemi možnými způsoby, pokouší se o familiérní pseudokonverzaci. Nevyplácí se z toho odhlašovat, nemám energii řešit gdpr a hledat v kterejch marketingových DB se moje maily ocitly, odepisovat na to už vůbec nehodlám, jednodušší je v tom množství si je prostě bloknout.

@kayla

Show threadKayla Eilhart (cz)4d ago

@GuloGulo

A jen aby to bylo jasnější, píšu o svých osobních mailboxech a doménách, kam mi začal přetékat tenhle typ business spamu, blokuju to všechno sobě, nechápu co v tomhle kontextu má znamenat hláška o "profesionálním IT". Stěžuju si na to, jak se tyhle business spam praktiky skokově zhoršily a zintenzivnily.

@kayla