Just got the weirdest email from something (or someone) purporting to be an “automated AI agent” asking me to compare some technical idea with a paper I wrote 20 years ago. It was written in convincingly conversational English.

I didn’t read the details of the idea carefully, but it was plausibly related.

If it were a human researcher or student, I’d probably engage, but training private AI systems for free is not my idea of a good use of a weekend.