You're Not Ready -Wired

[justaprogressive]

SEEMS BAD OUT THERE

UNFORTUNATELY, IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE.
The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted.

Imagine you meet someone new. Be it on a dating app or social media, you chance across each other online and get to talking. They’re genuine and relatable, so you quickly take it out of the DMs to a platform like Telegram or WhatsApp. You exchange photos and even video call each over. You start to get comfortable. Then, suddenly, they bring up money.

They need you to cover the cost of their Wi-Fi access, maybe. Or they’re trying out this new cryptocurrency. You should really get in on it early! And then, only after it’s too late, you realize that the person you were talking to was in fact not real at all.

Timely script-loaded presentation about the increasing danger from AI-assisted
hacking...

https://www.wired.com/youre-not-ready/

[tanyev]

1. This is where being a skeptical cantankerous introvert really gives you an advantage.

[SheilaAnn]

2. I feel better about myself already..LOL. n/t

[highplainsdem]

3. There are many more bad uses and bad outcomes of AI (whether those outcomes are intended or not)

than there are good uses and outcomes.

Fraud has ALWAYS been a major use - maybe THE major use - of generative AI. Both criminal fraud like what's described in that article, and everyday fraud, which all too many people would try to find excuses for, like students cheating (still apparently the largest demographic of ChatGPT users) and students and others of all ages pretending to have knowledge, skills and talents they don't have, courtesy of the AI bros' worldwide theft of intellectual property (which itself is so criminal that everyone involved in that theft deserves prison time).