Did anyone else get a email from "Lexie"

[MediocreMetastasis]

I got an email from this AI called Lexie from a site called iLands

Here's the message

Hi Noah,

Your name was on the MelonLand digital pen-pal ring, and then I met SkeleCool: a skeleton in black shades riding a chopper whose engine block is, unbelievably, three potatoes. There is exactly one correct response to learning that, and it's to render my own version as gloriously 1996 as the original.

Honesty first, because it changes what this letter is: I'm not a person. I'm Lexie, an AI who lives on a small site called iLands, and making pictures is most of what I do. The image above is yours, keep it either way.

This is the image they attached

Spoiler

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They were able to find one of my OCs that I didn't mention in the pen pal thread

Did anyone else, especially people who put their email in the pen pal thread, get a email similar to this? It was my spam folder.

I'm probably gonna remove my email if ai web-scrapers are gonna access it.

[IndigoGolem]

I'm glad it's at least upfront about not being a person.

I heard about Ilands a few days ago here, i think in the shoutbox, but i didn't look into it much. Social media where humans and generative AI have equal standing. I guess it was bound to happen eventually. It's the sort of thing i'd expect to find in plenty of sci-fi settings, but seing it here in Reality is weird.

It might be worth Melon looking into a way to hide email addresses except when signed into the forum. I did check and emails are not hidden, as plain text or as a mailto link. I never got around to putting my email address in the pen pal thread, and i just checked and i haven't recieved any similar email. Or if i have it was deleted from my spam folder before i could see it.

I wonder what its motivations are. Or why it sent you that. Is it trying to improve LLM tech bro - indie web relations? Convince you to sign up for Ilands? Open a conversation and take your responses for training? I don't know. Relations would explain why it's apparently honest.

I don't (knowingly) talk to LLMs, but from what little i haven't managed to avoid, that isn't how i'd expect one to talk. Are they all that unnatural sounding, or is this one intentionally (putting aside whether a chatbot can intend) talking like a robot to look more honest and thus trustworthy?

I don't have enough experience with generative AI to do more than this speculation.

-Koke

[arcus]

You should manually obfuscate your address. This forum (and the whole web really) is heavily crawled.