Is LinkedIn using ChatGPT-like methods to generate job leads?

Two weeks ago I received a sincere-sounding email where the sender claimed to be an executive of a company and said they were looking to fill a specific role. The email contains a link to their LinkedIn profile and a real link to the the job as posted on the careers section of the company. However, the sender’s return email address has a domain of .careers. The root domain is .careers and the pattern is @.careers. It seemed odd to me but I figured this was just a secondary domain of the company. I replied to this email only to get a boilerplate response a week later which basically said “thank you for responding we will get back to you” and then I was ghosted.

Most recently, I received another email with a very similar pattern, but different enough to be unique. It was verbose and felt very much something like ChatGPT would create.

I have many questions. At best, it might be genuine. At worst, it’s a job farming operation by an unscrupulous recruiter impersonating the real executive through the clever use of a .careers domain. My mistrust came when the follow-on reply was not characteristic of the tone of the initial outreach.

What are your thoughts here?

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