Awkward AI: Receiving Automated AI Outreach from a Former Colleague
kavirkaycee · x · 2026-08-13
A user recently took to social media to express frustration over an all-too-common modern annoyance: receiving an obviously AI-generated marketing email from someone they personally know and have worked with in the past.
This highlights the awkward boundary of current AI sales tools, showing how automated AI outreach can easily backfire, feeling impersonal and damaging professional relationships rather than fostering them.
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