The spam arms race continues to escalate. Broad availability of tools like ChatGPT has probably helped spammers in the short term.
If any good can come of this long term, it would be the ability for me to charge people to get an email into my inbox. This has been proposed multiple times over the decades, but has never been more needed or feasible than now.
Anecdotally all the spam I get is exactly the type of spam I got 20 years ago on the same email address. I don’t think it’s chatgpt but either a loosening of filters or something else.
If any good can come of this long term, it would be the ability for me to charge people to get an email into my inbox. This has been proposed multiple times over the decades, but has never been more needed or feasible than now.