{"slug": "recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback", "title": "Recently I've received lots of AI emails asking for my feedback", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.\n\n### Post\n\nCarl T. Bergstrom\n\ncarlbergstrom.com\n\ndid:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl\n\n1. 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.\nThe catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.\n\n2026-08-17T08:25:23.929Z", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback", "canonical_source": "https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mtbboq46qc23", "published_at": "2026-08-17 15:19:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 15:41:29.750121+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Carl T. Bergstrom", "University of Washington"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recently-i-ve-received-lots-of-ai-emails-asking-for-my-feedback.jsonld"}}