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by ilyt 1240 days ago
> Using these tools to mitigate spam is as likely a scenario as this, imagine that every spam mail receives a masterfully crafted response showing utter fascination and interest in SEO, or helping out a Nigerian prince. Every phone call to an unregistered number is answered by an artificial, frail, and forgetful lady that is trying her best to register gift cards.

Right. And who the fuck would pay for GPU time for that ?
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arcticbull 1240 days ago
Apparently phone scammers hit Americans for $40B in 2022. At this point the economic incentives are significant enough that a federal budget line item may be in order.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/05/how-phone-scammers-tricked-a...

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ilyt 1240 days ago
The comment was about using it to answer scammers, not to do the scams.

Obviously for scammers it would be huge benefit as they are directly profiting off it.

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dist1ll 1240 days ago
The $40bn estimate was given by a company whose main product is spam prevention and call blocking.

I'd take that number with a huge grain of salt.

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