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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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706 points ortusdux | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.652s | 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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1. IshKebab ◴[15 Nov 24 07:42 UTC] No.42144710[source]▶
Well... I still get SMS spam. I assume spammers just use other people's hacked phones.
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2. Scoundreller ◴[15 Nov 24 07:56 UTC] No.42144782[source]▶
You can get a sim for a few bucks and spam under the rate limit.

You can buy jigs that hold hundreds of SIMs connected to a handful of cellular modems connected to a c&c and drip them out.

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3. IshKebab ◴[15 Nov 24 19:47 UTC] No.42150202[source]▶
Right but it costs money to send SMSs. At least it used to. I dunno if they've given up charging for that now since nobody uses them. Tbf I haven't seen a phone contract without unlimited texts for at least a decade I guess.