Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/elon-musk-and-the-age-of-the-troll/ We all know ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/elon-musk-and-the-age-of-the-troll/
We all know or can imagine some version of the Batty Old Doris The phone company O2 has devised an AI programme that supplies a convincing telephonic facsimile of what you might call a Batty Old Doris. The scammer, convinced he’s hooked a dear old lady who will easily be relieved of her life savings, attempts to ferret out her bank details, date of birth, passwords and what have you. And Daisy, indefatigably, burbles on about scones, amateur dramatics or her love of knitting, and offers confused versions of recipes for lemon meringue pie for as long as the poor scammer can endure it. The clock ticks on and, hours of time having been spent down the fraud mines with nothing to show for it, it’s pleasing to think the scammer can expect a roasting from his supervisor when the daily figures are in. […]
After all, it can only be a matter of time before the scam factories are using AI themselves – as being cheaper to hire even than third-world call-centre operatives, and better at tricking people out of their bank details. Eventually, we can imagine, millions and millions of scam phone calls will be going on all over the world every day – and a figure approaching 100 per cent of them will be calls between one AI trying to get bank details from another AI who has no bank details to give.
https://archive.ph/lYGdy
We all know or can imagine some version of the Batty Old Doris The phone company O2 has devised an AI programme that supplies a convincing telephonic facsimile of what you might call a Batty Old Doris. The scammer, convinced he’s hooked a dear old lady who will easily be relieved of her life savings, attempts to ferret out her bank details, date of birth, passwords and what have you. And Daisy, indefatigably, burbles on about scones, amateur dramatics or her love of knitting, and offers confused versions of recipes for lemon meringue pie for as long as the poor scammer can endure it. The clock ticks on and, hours of time having been spent down the fraud mines with nothing to show for it, it’s pleasing to think the scammer can expect a roasting from his supervisor when the daily figures are in. […]
After all, it can only be a matter of time before the scam factories are using AI themselves – as being cheaper to hire even than third-world call-centre operatives, and better at tricking people out of their bank details. Eventually, we can imagine, millions and millions of scam phone calls will be going on all over the world every day – and a figure approaching 100 per cent of them will be calls between one AI trying to get bank details from another AI who has no bank details to give.
https://archive.ph/lYGdy