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They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

#4

Post by mbernstein »

saidnooneever wrote: post #2

definitely a big issue especially with all the big places now vibe coding and leaking all our damned data in plaintext. a lot of people are getting hit real hard now. its not a joke or overstatement.

I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by varispeed »

mbernstein wrote: post #4
saidnooneever wrote: post #2

definitely a big issue especially with all the big places now vibe coding and leaking all our damned data in plaintext. a lot of people are getting hit real hard now. its not a joke or overstatement.

I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

I don't answer the phone from anyone I don't know. If it is something important, they'll find a way to reach me.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by hollow-moe »

They don't even need to actually vibecode the emails. Some scam reached my gmail inbox for the french railway company advantage card at a "too low to believe" price. They just downloaded an original email, replaced content urls to their own host and all links to their scam page. Yes, all links even the socials lol. There's one link that was removed instead of replaced (but the text was still there): the unsubscribe notice. I didn't check the page but the email was well done since it just was an edited official one and if the page was equally made I'm sure at least some people got scammed there.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by gitmagic »

varispeed wrote: post #5
mbernstein wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

I don't answer the phone from anyone I don't know. If it is something important, they'll find a way to reach me.

Same, except for when I’m expecting a delivery, then I tend to answer calls from unknown numbers.

Re: They’re vibe-coding spam now

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Post by imiric »

This is hardly new, and it goes far beyond spam emails. Most of the content produced and consumed on the internet is now done by machines. A human may or may not benefit from directing a machine to do this, and the ways they do are often highly opaque, with several layers of indirection. It doesn't take a genius to see that this is ushering in a new era of scams and spam.

"AI" companies are responsible for this mess. They should be held accountable for digging us out of it.

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