People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers
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AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever—or until callers finally give up.

AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever—or until callers finally give up

@alejandro@lemmy.world
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21Y

Soon, call scams will figure out how to use their own LLMs to run the scams, and we’ll just have robots talking to robots.

What a time to be alive

@2dollarsim@lemmy.world
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It gets worse. Now we have people writing summaries for AI to write articles and then people using AI to summarize the articles again.

Scew
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“I’ll have my bots call your bots.”

@jcit878@lemmy.world
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sounds like a good idea. they use bots on us why not return the favour. i managed to annoy (an actual bot) so much the other day because i refused to answer one of its preset answers

In the distant future after humanity is long gone, the two last remaining servers on the planet will just be spam calling each other for millennia. Passing aliens will be perplexed by the increasingly elaborate sales pitches until someone foolish enough tries to make direct contact.

@zeppo@lemmy.world
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Ha. We used to manually make crank calls with the voice generation program on the Amiga in 1989. The best was when we for some reason called this lady and told her something about Satan, and I swear she told us “Satan isn’t worth a basket of fruit!!”. So we started calling people and saying in the robot voice “Saaatan isn’t wooorth a baassket of frrru-iit”

Oh, the memories of my 1500!!

@zeppo@lemmy.world
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Wow, I had to look that up! I’d never even heard of an Amiga 1500.

Had the 500, 1000, 1500. Good times

Am I the only with the paywall for the article?

No but most people just read the headline and move on nowadays.

That means we achieved the full reddification of Lemmy

Not yet. We haven’t gotten those annoying teenagers here yet.

About to have two AI models locked in an endless battle.

Ignacio [he/him]
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