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okay I've gotten like 5 cold outreach emails — they're not _quite_ spam, but definitely spam-adjacent — in the last 2 weeks offering to help me market my open source projects. I actually _would_ like help doing this! but the first one I interacted with copped to using LLMs immediately, and I suspect that's what the rest are doing too.
why is this suddenly a business? I am in an _extremely_ niche market, the "vanity press wannabe" of the open source world. why are these cropping up *now*?