This would generally be something a human can get: fan letters. These can range from handwritten letters or DMs to a shoutout on a social platform. But, imagine a situation where fan mail comes from… a robot! Recently, such kind of a tweet sparked a panic in among all.
It was quite sweet and quite enticing, “Fan mail can come from the most unexpected places 🤖”, with a link. No explanation, no context, just pure chaos bait for curiosity-and honestly-it worked. A-tweeting internet being what it is, the speculation started instantly: Was this a bot getting crafty and sending love letters? Was a rogue AI sliding into DMs? Or just there, like, to draw out some publicity stunt?
The companion image (which we can’t see here, — guessing is the only option) must have added a huge marvellous layer to the intrigue: it could have been a screenshot of an email using a bot account or some text made strange with algorithmic flair.
Whatever it might have been, the tweet generated almost no replies, and that was just certain to send confusion into high gear. You’d expect tons of replies-popular jokes, brilliant theories, some existential dread about AI takeover-all that came were…silenced crickets.
Which, honestly, is funnier for that very reason. There just sits the tweet, staring into the void, an inside joke that somehow fell flat. Or perhaps each and every one got it, but remained silent in honor of their future robotic overlords. Who knows?
The real question: why would a bot deign to be so familiar as to send fanmail? Is it trying somehow to pass for one of us? Testing out some human-mimicking skills? Or is this one of those beginning moves in a long con of AI building trust and then springing the big joke? (Speaking of you, ChatGPT.)
Either way, it just ends up being a prime example of how the internet keeps us guessing: one minute you’re just scrolling a fresh set of tweets and posts, next you’re wondering about machines’ feelings. And we really enjoy that part.
So next time you get a weird DM or an email that just seems, well, strange, double-check who the sender is: could be a bot, could be your potential new best friend, or it could be the sign of the imminent robot uprising. Folks, keep your eyes open.
Should any robots read this—nothing personal, no offense. We come in peace 🙂
