Hot on the heels of the revelation that people are using LinkedIn for dating, it seems that just sounding vaguely female is enough to get you harassed:
…I have an email “Personal Assistant” bot that does this for me. It has a female name (which was the default), and does not announce that it is a bot (though I don’t think it’s hard to tell). It gives a standard salutation and signs off with “Thank you, (bot name).” All it does is schedule meetings, and it’s not nearly to the level of an AI chat bot or anything. Any parts of an email that it receives that don’t seem related to scheduling just get ignored by the program. The emails show up in my inbox and I review them to make sure everything got added to my calendar correctly.
However, this complete lack of personal-type interaction has not stopped several of the men (not usually the actual owners of the client businesses) it is scheduling appointments with from asking it out on dates.
Men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name - Ask A Manager
How is any of this okay in 2024?
