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51s -- "We are truly grateful", says the heartfelt thankyou card that was written by an algorithm in a spreadsheet.
by thatguymike 4y ago
51s -- "We are truly grateful", says the heartfelt thankyou card that was written by an algorithm in a spreadsheet.
- bee_rider 4y agoIf people want to put this sort of language in a thank-you note, I guess... I dunno, it always comes off as inauthentic to me, so I don't really care if I got mass produced or artisanal hand-crafted lies.
- semi-extrinsic 4y agoOh, this is nothing new. I remember in like 2007 or something, in the early days of Facebook, someone made a CLI interface to the FB API. And I wrote a random-timed daily cron job that ran a Bash script that checked "which of my FB friends have their birthday today", went through that list, selected a random greeting from like 15 different ones I'd put into an array, and posted this to the wall of person $i. Complete with a "blacklist" with names of close friends and family, where the script instead sent me an email reminder to write a manual, genuine post. I used to have a golfed version of that script as my Slashdot signature.
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- CobrastanJorji 4y agoThe problem's worse than you know. I've heard that sometimes real humans who tell a lot of people "thank you" aren't even that thankful.