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Lately, I&#x27;ve been getting many emails that appear to be from a fellow human HN user who saw something you said on HN, and was inspired to reach out about joining their company.<p>There&#x27;s usually a whiff of AI, though they usually pick a personal detail of yours to mention (to make it not look like pre-AI spam), and sometimes are even sent from the email address of someone listed as a founder on a startup&#x27;s web site. There&#x27;s clear indication that this is automated, by AI or otherwise.<p>If you respond, you find it&#x27;s either:<p>(1) AI-powered spamming, to generate hiring leads for them to look at, for the first time, and the initial message suggesting a thoughtful connection was deceptive (making it no better than the worst LinkedIn keyword spammer&#x27;s outreaches that everyone hates, just more deceptive); or<p>(2) There is no such job like they said, and they are actually just collecting resumes to bootstrap or growth-hack their AI recruiter service.<p>Both of these are dishonest, and are wasting the attention of those of us job hunting, while our field is going through times that are rough for most.<p>It may also mean that the person is less likely to respond to a genuine message, because the AI spammer&#x27;s dishonesty has soiled one of the last ways by which we genuinely reach out.<p>So, to the people doing this...<p>Please consider that, although it might be ethically no different than a number of other dishonest things that lucrative tech startups have done in the past and are currently doing, you are actively taking the initiative to make the world <i>that much worse</i>.<p>Also, not that it makes any ethical difference, but you&#x27;re doing it to people in your own field, perhaps very similar to yourself. Ideally, anyone holding a position of leadership would have ethics and empathy for others. Having zero empathy, even that close to home, isn&#x27;t a good sign.

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  • 信息来源：Hacker News 新项目
  • 发布时间：2026/9/26 03:56:26