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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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706 points ortusdux | 4 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.821s | source
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xnx ◴[14 Nov 24 17:47 UTC] No.42138885[source]▶
Seems like the logical endpoint of a lot of this is people getting paid directly for their attention. Want to call me? I've set a price of $5/call that I answer, and an additional $10/minute of listen time after the first 10 seconds. Want to send me an email? $1/email and $5/100 words. Anyone I have emailed is automatically on my allow-list, which I can also adjust manually.
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guidoism ◴[14 Nov 24 18:36 UTC] No.42139519[source]▶
That's similar to the idea I had for combating texting spam: - If your number is in my address book then texts are free for you - If this is the first time you are contacting me then you pay me $1

There are probably downsides and ways this will screw up real relationships but it will certainly increase the cost of spam.

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Nition ◴[14 Nov 24 18:42 UTC] No.42139601[source]▶
One issue I can forsee:

- Every contractor (plumber etc) you hire will ask you to please add them to your contact list first so that they can message you.

- After a while of half their clients not doing that and lots of fees on their end, contractors stop providing a phone number at all, asking you to please install ContractorApp to communicate with them.

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1. crummy ◴[14 Nov 24 18:57 UTC] No.42139815[source]▶
Maybe when you first receive a text you see:

This message is from an unknown number. (Accept / Block / Charge sender $1)

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2. telgareith ◴[14 Nov 24 19:10 UTC] No.42139955[source]▶
Well, that just invokes we-had-a-baby-its-a-boy
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3. sailfast ◴[14 Nov 24 19:50 UTC] No.42140402[source]▶
They had a baby.

It’s a boy!

That said - perhaps harder to change the name that shows up as quickly as you could leave a recorded name? :)

Still one of the best ads ever made.

4. Nition ◴[15 Nov 24 07:36 UTC] No.42144687[source]▶
Ha! Okay, I like this, I think it changes my mind on the whole thing being viable. There's probably some reason it wouldn't work in reality but the satisfaction from pressing the charge $1 option on spam would be huge.

I disagree about the we-adda-baby-itsa-boy issue. I don't see how that'd apply given that you can charge them $1 from the very first message.