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Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn’t a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.

Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won’t put resources into but that should happen anyway

The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn’t enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn’t give a shit

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Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

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Imagine explaining this headline to somebody in 1890!

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Imagine explaining this headline to the very last somebody reading it in an old internet archive in a bunker in 2090!

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somebody reading it in an old internet archive in a bunker in 2090

How very optimistic of you. I’ve been a little more despondent about our future. I doubt we’ll still exist as a species in 2090.

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The Grandma-Honeypot LOL

But I don’t believe in it. If I were the scammer, I would have maybe 2 or 3 of these lengthy talks with “her”, but afterwards I would recognize her and of course avoid her anytime.

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Until they change the name and voice and have a whole fleet of elderly AI chatbots.

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That “fleet” would need many significant differences, like when you recognize different people, then many features are different. If your grandma talks to you with a different tone, you would still recognize your grandma easily.

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Depends on how much effort the average scammer puts into remembering the prospective victims that don’t bite. My guess is that they don’t waste too many brain cells on that.

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Nah, u gotta remember that they call from loud call centers with a shitty headset. Not that easy to pick up details in the voice

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Lenny did this without AI over a decade ago.

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Larissa, Lenny’s third eldest, would be proud.

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Yes, yes, yes

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“Daisy” is claimed to be indistinguishable from a real person, fooling scammers into thinking they’ve found perfect prey thanks to its ability to engage in “human-like” rambling chat, the biz claims.

lmao okay. This will work for maybe a week, and then they will smarten up

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Idk, elderly are prone to rambling on and sometimes not making much sense. Perfect use of AI if you ask me.

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Watching Kitboga videos, they do not smarten up.

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They do not be oversmart

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I’m guessing he selects scammers for maximum enjoyment and doesn’t randomly sample. I imagine there are plenty of smart scammers out there.

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I’ve watched an 18 minute video of an Indian scammer talking to an answering machine randomly repeating one of like 10 pre-recorded voice lines. This one is most likely much better and will steal hours of their time.

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Lmao, you’ve never heard of Lennybot.

Scammers are stupider than you could ever imagine.

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I’m not sure. Sometimes I feel like talking to my almost 80 year old mother is sorta like talking to chatGPT.

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