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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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> You know about the values of a culture, if they call your old parents to rip them off.

Large groups of people in a poor country steal from rich countries, and your explanation is a morally corrupt culture? not the obviously extremely poor prospects of it's citizens?

> They have none, or worse they can talk themselves into this "Robin Hood" psychosis, where stealing the pension from the elderly is just fine, because they are part of the upper crust of the world.

You're describing a cartoon character. Most of these people are trying to survive, not make some kind of twisted moral stand. Please try to recognise the privilege your place of birth affords you and how much of a global minority you are in. Incentives are everything here.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals

> Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals ...

It's nearly as if there was a lesson here about some individuals in the human race?

What was that yet about psychos? That 1% of all humans, no matter the socio-economic class, no matter the parents, are just full-on psychopaths.

The question is: what do we do, as a society, about those who only want to harm others?

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main fuel is the "need" to have browsers that can execute code, coupled with the ability to transfer money via the internet. JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after. Let's ask Vint Cerf whether the web was meant to run logic, or just be a document format. I bet no matter what he answers, the world would be like the GIF pronunciation "I don't care if the origin…

> JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after. That’s a really extreme take that lacks any nuance. Might as well blame the OS as well for allowing any custom code to be executed.

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Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals

> Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals ... It's nearly as if there was a lesson here about some individuals in the human race? What was that yet about psychos? That 1% of all humans, no matter the socio-economic class, no matter the parents, are just full-on psychopaths. The question is: what do we do, as a society, about those who only want to har…

Sounds simple to me. Remove them from society.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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post #27

Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….

Do you plan to bet on this by buying PUTs? Should be easy money, right? /s

OpenAI isn’t public so… /s

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

#29
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main fuel is the "need" to have browsers that can execute code, coupled with the ability to transfer money via the internet. JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after. Let's ask Vint Cerf whether the web was meant to run logic, or just be a document format. I bet no matter what he answers, the world would be like the GIF pronunciation "I don't care if the origin…

> JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after. That’s a really extreme take that lacks any nuance. Might as well blame the OS as well for allowing any custom code to be executed.

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Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

#30
Criminals are bad, evil, jail etc etc. I agree. But while the core problem that creates this environment is not solved, nothing will fix it. Not even if you bomb the hell out of it.

Ethics, morals and whatever people call only exists if economy is stable. If you let this sort of opportunistic environment exist there will be people to work in it

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