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I built an artificial intelligence that not only calls scammers to waste their time, but can steal their account information to help get them shut down (and it's working)

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  1. Fiachra
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    Great stuff. A few streamers wasting scammer time was more for raising awareness than anything, but something automated that can be scaled up could do a lot more. I think this application is very...

    Great stuff. A few streamers wasting scammer time was more for raising awareness than anything, but something automated that can be scaled up could do a lot more.

    I think this application is very fortunately suited to AI in a few ways:

    • They deliberately target vulnerable people who have a hard time understanding things, which nicely covers up the nonsensical responses that normally gives an AI away
    • The scammers are literally working to a script, so not only is the conversation predictable but they will tolerate more red flags so long as it keeps moving them along in that script
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