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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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718 points ortusdux | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.634s | 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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tokioyoyo ◴[14 Nov 24 18:07 UTC] No.42139164[source]▶
And maybe like a temporary hold of the money, so you get it back if I’m convinced it’s not spam. Probably would resolve 99% of spam issues in the real world and create a chain of trust. Add some temporary disabling feature as well if you’re expecting a call from a random number too, so you’re set.
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swores ◴[14 Nov 24 18:51 UTC] No.42139712[source]▶
Sounds like a great solution to the minority of people like you and me who wouldn't mind the added steps of approving every real phone call as not spam after, having to remember how to set that you're expecting a call from a random number, etc. I can't see it being acceptable to enough people for any network to go down this road unless spam levels get way worse.
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1. tokioyoyo ◴[15 Nov 24 04:15 UTC] No.42143917[source]▶
Not approving all the time, just setting every call by default to $1. Everyone who knows you will call knowing they’ll get their money back. And you can do an easy “add everyone in your contacts to a whitelist”, boom done.
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2. another-dave ◴[15 Nov 24 11:41 UTC] No.42146029[source]▶
It'd work well for both ends of the spectrum (spam callers & friends) but think would kinda fall down in the middle though — kids' school, doctor's office, plumber coming to service your boiler.

Where you are expecting a call and it's definitely not spam, but they're not going to be ringing from a pre-approved whitelist. Don't think they'd want to be putting $1 per call on the line and hoping for people to remember to click the right button afterwards

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3. BlueTemplar ◴[16 Nov 24 17:32 UTC] No.42157613[source]▶
The plumber at least is presumably paid a lot more than $1 for doing that job, and they would most likely just pass the cost onto you ?