AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’

Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by puttycat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:39PM (#35542525)

Rule of thumb: reductionist arguments don't hold for technologies from the Internet onwards.

For example, the Internet is nothing like TV, so arguments like "we grew up on TV and ended up ok" don't hold.

Same holds in my opinion to AI-scams.

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Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by bawolff on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:05PM (#35542993)

I disagree. Do you have examples to back that up?

> we grew up on TV and ended up ok

Not sure what you are comparing here, but we (people in early 30s) also grew up on the internet and mostly ended up ok. Some people who grew up on tv did not end up ok.

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Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by pixl97 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:59PM (#35543951)

Quantity is a quality in itself.

If I catch a fish in a lake that's not problem.

If I catch all the fish in the lake we need to stock the lake again with fish.

If I catch 10^30 fish on the planet, fish are extinct.

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Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by ta1243 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:09PM (#35545093)

> If I catch 10^30 fish on the planet, fish are extinct.

The entire planet is extinct

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Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by pixl97 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:49PM (#35545736)

Oopsie, I turned the visible universe into paperclips.

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Re:AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve... by comfypotato on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:04PM (#35545002)

I’m not sure I subscribe to this rule of thumb, but I definitely agree with the general idea that comparisons make weak arguments.

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