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Surprised to see overwhelmingly positive comments on this.

It’s a cool project, yes. But getting even poorly faked versions of this with a “handwriting” font is super annoying.

The purpose of this is to deceive the recipient, plain and simple.



Yeah, the robot/engineering part is cool, but the end application is just yet another junk mail gimmick, and a pretty dull one at that, which is hard to get excited about.

Decades ago I talked briefly with a startup that was doing something similar but using calligraphers in China. The founders were nice but I passed for the same reason.


Why is this deception?


Because the only reason to do it is to fool the recipient into thinking a human wrote the letter. It's certainly not more readable or efficient than laser-printing Helvetica.




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