CS professor exposes a telltale templated AI cold email from a prospective student
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-11-02
CS professor CSProfKGD shares a screenshot of a prospective student's cold email praising "your research on computer vision, particularly motion analysis and deep learning" — generic AI-generated flattery with zero specifics about the professor's actual work.
The post mocks the flood of one-glance-identifiable LLM-written outreach hitting academia: technically correct, utterly impersonal, and likely hurting the applicant's credibility.
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