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Re:I Received an AI Email by themanmaran on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:29AM (#40862986)
It's truely a race to the bottom. Cold email response rates are already ~1% industry average. Every outbound tool is adding the AI customization, and there is a slew of 'AI sales rep' companies promising more and more personalized spam.

There will likely be rewards at first. An uptick in response rates as most of the market won't recognize emails are AI generated. But because it's trivial to send AI personalized emails at massive scale, your email inbox will become entirely useless.

Re:I Received an AI Email by nostromo on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:07AM (#40863199)
1% is also about how well this worked, according to the sender's blog post.

10 signups / 970 emails sent

Re:I Received an AI Email by youssefabdelm on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:49AM (#40863722)
Kinda makes you wonder... why don't they just advertise with those odds?
Re:I Received an AI Email by lmm on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:43AM (#40864001)
Because that's an order of magnitude better than what you get from advertising.
Re:I Received an AI Email by youssefabdelm on Friday July 05, 2024 @12:26AM (#40879829)
Assuming signups = $, true. But not if there's some free trial or something and then you've got a conversion rate on top of that.
Re:I Received an AI Email by altdataseller on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:14AM (#40864520)
Thats actually a very good rate. 1% conversion rate is drastically different from a 1% response rate