Sorry AI, you’re just not human enough
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.One day in March 2026, a senior software developer, Kovanikov, found himself thoroughly offended. He had just received a cold outreach email from the CEO of AI startup, Composio, inviting him to call in. The email was obviously written by an AI assistant, Jarvis.
The developer bristled at the idea of the zero-effort communication reaching out to him and he rejected the call. On X, he posted, “If you don’t have the time to even write a cold email, I definitely don’t have the time for a quick call.” The post went viral as people began to air their opinions on AI-generated communication. It’s actually rather ironic, considering Kovanikov probably works on AI himself.Rather late in the day, there’s a very real human pushback against having to interact with AI communication, which now comes at us from every direction.
Hostinger, a hosting and infrastructure company, analysed a billion anonymized emails and found only 13% of the lot were human-written. Considering it isn’t just email, but text messages, calls, social media posts, comments and articles that are AI-generated, it is unsurprisingly getting exhausting for humans, who invented the stuff in the first place.With AI agents coming in to add to what was already an avalanche of automated email and messaging, the element of human effort is all but being taken out of the equation. And people take offence to that.
What makes this moment more interesting is its timing. Just as people are beginning to push back against AI-generated messages, a new layer is about to arrive. AI agents are being designed to write, respond, follow up and even negotiate on our behalf.
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