Re:AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
by hurrdurr2 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:37PM
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Back when I worked as a telemarketer in high school a long time ago, we sold paper subscriptions, and usually the people that didn't cuss us out and hang up right away are the lonely old people who just wanted to chat. I lasted two months and had to quit; felt like we were just taking advantage of them.
Re:AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
by nexuist on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:02PM
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I wonder if there is a market for proxying your mom's calls to you, allowing you to approve/deny each one before it gets to your mom?
One consistent trend in HN comments is young people complaining about their parents' naivety / incapability to understand the modern scamming world, and wishing they could install something or use some service to keep them from falling into these expensive traps. I know this is a big reason why people get their grandparents iPads instead of full blown laptops, because laptops are much easier to inadvertently install malware on.
Re:AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
by robertjwebb on Thursday November 14, 2019 @08:00AM
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Land-line telephones are awful because the majority of people who will pick up the phone during the day on Monday-Friday are old or disabled, i.e. easier to manipulate. I don't think I have received a single legitimate phone call during that time. In fact, legit callers know this and know that if they do call for a good reason, the person at the other end will distrust them.
My personal hell: My mother has dementia and a land line telephone.
Scammers call all the time. All day long. (Although the last few days have been pretty good, I assume somebody somewhere is doing their jobs. The scammers will adapt.) One thing they do is spoof their number to have the same area code and prefix as the one they're calling, so it's like "Oh, is this a neighbor?" or something, but of course it's not. It's an automated machine abusing the telephone network to try to steal money from a little old lady with dementia.
Evil men with robots are attacking my mom. Another one called while I was writing this post!
This is a goddamned sci-fi dystopia.
And now the robo-thieving bastards can imitate my voice!?
I'm going to have to get her one of those satellite-linked walkie-talkies or something. Thank God she doesn't use the internet.