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Recently I've received lots of AI emails asking for my feedback

Carl T. Bergstrom, a professor at the University of Washington, reported receiving numerous emails from strangers asking for feedback on their books or papers, which he says are transparently written by AI. He noted the emails explain the connection between his work and theirs, but the AI authorship is obvious.

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Recently I've received lots of AI emails asking for my feedback
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Carl T. Bergstrom

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  1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

2026-08-17T08:25:23.929Z

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