alt Hacker NewsThe AI bot does change it, random spam emails get ignored already as you say.
A request from an AI agent doesn't, as the parent showed.
Now anyone can source 40 samples from Vietnamese factories and get a response, the sort of request that would only come from a serious buyer before AI agents impersonating humans were a thing.
Tokens aren't free so there's already some level of buy-in on the part of the human sending out the agent. The amount of unserious requests will be limited by the cost of the tokens to run the agents.
On the other hand op said they'd been wanting to do this for years but never had the time / ability. This is work that would otherwise not be happening.