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Is this going to be a new normal?
ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
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Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#12The demos on the Jolly Roger site are hilarious. The bot sounds so realistic, and the bot even had the audacity to ask the scammer, “Are you a real person?!” “Hold on, there’s a bee on my arm”
It seems to be just repeating some prerecorded script. Only using ChatGPT to detect when to say "ok" or "yes".
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#13I suppose we'll soon see a good % of phone network usage being spent on AI callers talking to AI filters/receptionists. Like all the Internet packets dedicated to captchas and blocking email spam, bot traffic, etc, phone systems will evolve to better filter and handle automated vs. human calls as a tsunami of AI callers approaches. It's going to be a tough battle because it's really difficult to discern from voice tr…
We're already kind of there. Android has had Google screening transcripts for awhile and Apple just came out with theirs.
I don't think anyone who knows better ever actually answers the phone anymore unless it's someone they already know or have initiated some phone business with.
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#14> Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. Is this going to be a new normal?
it's been the norm for awhile. many streaming services have extremely strict policies on where you can watch content, many site owners set up regional blocking if you aren't showing as from the US without VPN, even some fairly major US store chains won't let you _look_ at the site if you're not showing as from the US without vpn. it's also very common for sites behind cloud flare to either just completely block you out or make the captchas so egregious that you can't continue.
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#15> Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. Is this going to be a new normal?
My assumption is it'll just get worse. The more local regulation of the Internet there is, the more reason sites have to just block everyone but their expected customer base.
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#16Is there an example recording? I'm curious to what such a conversation sounds like
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#17This is an ad for a private service.
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#18What if the AI accidentally says the wrong thing and bankrupts you by buying a bridge?
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#19What if the AI accidentally says the wrong thing and bankrupts you by buying a bridge?
What are they gonna successfully guess you credit card number?
Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers
#20A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me.
Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it.
Steps:
(1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs old, incompetent, and forgetful. Tell them some stories about your great-grandson on the baseball team. (3) When they call you on it, switch to your real persona and just tell them you’re setting the phone down on the table and they’ll have to hang up. They hate hanging up, it messes up their stats or something.
This is how you get put on the _real_ do-not-call lists - the ones in India labeled “unprofitable_numbers.txt”.