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Running 5d ↳ AI Backlash Widens as Congress Weighs a 'Kill Switch' for Rogue Models

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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  • African scammers used to be small scale or lone wolf type of operations. You had scammers like Hushpuppi etc who become celebrities John Gotti style. Now the Chinese have taken over , they are moving from places like Malaysia and setting up these huge scam compounds , they combine the legitimate businesses (construction, import/export) with…

    madradavidHacker News5d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams?As if people weren't scamming before AI, with the billions of dollars seized from the Chinese scam dungeons in Cambodia [0] where they had kidnapped people and tied them to computers (including a few deaths, and another wave of arrests just recently)Scammers gonna scam. At least if they can use AI for it…

    RazenganHacker News6d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Got a scam call yesterday morning. An American-ish accent, but quite rusty, I suspected they were using an AI voice changer.They said "Am I speaking to <my full name>?". I did not answer that and instead asked what company they were calling from, then they immediately hung up.I guess people who ask that initial question are disqualified for their…

    aussieguy1234Hacker News5d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Here's an amazing study from Microsoft which I recall from back in the day (PDF):https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...Edit: Recalled -> Recall

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  • While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons to another level.Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

    cheriotHacker News5d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering.I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.

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  • I'm surprised it's only halfThere's a joke about certain princes here but I just feel bad for the people getting scammed since I know firsthand how realistic these things can seem

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  • Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….

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