Washington’s new anti-robocall law won’t stop the calls

Post by crooked-v » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 3:57 AM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #52

QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #32

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I’ve found that when I get a robot call, if I type randomly on the numpad it usually gets me on the line with a real person, who’s time I’m happy to waste. I figure this is the most expensive outcome for the caller

Is there some way to implement this as a service with a chat bot or just prerecorded mumbling and confused statements? I guess it could happen by just transferring the call. The true future of AI is robots sending eachother spam.

Post by lmm » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:14 AM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #92

lmm wrote: post #80

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Perhaps you'd give them single-use invites, or invites that included some form of certification path? I've noticed that Discord makes me go out of my way to hand out a reusable/non-expiring invite URL instead of a 1-day use-up-to-10-times link; obviously Discord's implementation relies on their hosting all the servers, but one could imagine a cryptographic equivalent that worked in a federated protocol.

I don't use (or want to use) chat apps like Discord and such, though. It would also be a real challenge convincing the people I interact with routinely to start using such apps.