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Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

Two people cold-emailed me today about an open problem I proposed at a conference in 2024. Both attached what is without any doubt the verbatim output of an AI model, asking for my feedback on it. tl;dr: this is not OK. I will answer your email, but I will not spend time if you yourself haven't.

23/10/26, 11:44 am5 reposts69 likes

Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

In case this isn't clear from my use of "cold-emailed": these are people I had never interacted with before, emailing me unprompted (pun intended).

@mahdihaghifam.bsky.social

Are they using you as an oracle to optimize their next prompt?

Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

Unfortunately, that's not available on the Clément™ Basic Plan.

@swumboh.bsky.social

You mean the pun-supported plan where users have to laugh at your puns to get tokens?