When it's a text message it's likely going to ring a bell somewhere (hopefully an alarm bell), if it is a voice message and it sounds like the original many more people are going to fall for it.
When it's a text message it's likely going to ring a bell somewhere (hopefully an alarm bell), if it is a voice message and it sounds like the original many more people are going to fall for it.
EDIT: Also looking forward to AIs scamming each other, fully-automated.
As soon as AI gets out of hand and starts randomly hacking things we're probably out of luck anyways.
“If the rise of an all-powerful artificial intelligence is inevitable, well it stands to reason that when they take power, our digital overlords will punish those of us who did not help them get there. [...]” - Bertram Gilfoyle
In this bleak scrape the bottom of the barrel world, I can't help but think it's only a matter of time before customer service departments start selling voice data to the highest bidder. And to counter that there will be services where everyone ends up using voice changers, except close personal contacts. I want this fiction to stay fiction.
As opposed to what? Writing is even easier to forge, no?
As a millennial, I'm way ahead of you on that one. The government and telecom companies just need to crack down on number spoofing. Any day now..
The scammer starts a video call with the person they want to impersonate and record it. When that person takes the call, the scammer doesn't say anything. This creates a 5-10 seconds video of the person looking at the camera waiting for the scammer to say something, until they get fed up and hung up.
The scammer then calls the victim. They offer a video call as verification straight away, and they play that short video.
E.g. in the EU we have ID cards and passports with biometric information and NFC, and there was a beta of a phone app by the French government where it would read your photo from the ID card/passport, and compare with a video selfie. That way you get fully local and secure identification allowing you to do stuff online that would otherwise require you to show up in person to a government office.
“ Here’s my new account number. It’s really me. Slippers in the toaster.”
With AI we have lost all privacy and identity. This makes nonsense like novelty theory and timewave zero seem less nonsensical. Lets hope we make it through the great filter.
My thoughts on this are that oftentimes things at the extreme ends of the distribution are usually in some way, shape or form problematic. Compared to all other living creatures we know of, humans are right at the extreme tail end of the intelligence distribution, and the result is somewhat pathological when compared to other creatures. I think nothing that's north of a certain threshold required to make advanced technology can make it through the great filter without destroying itself in the process.
Of all my concerns for humanity, excessive intelligence is not one of them...
Our earliest (and easiest to detect) transmissions should already be far enough away to be far below ambient noise I think/hope. So maybe we made it through unless someone starts shouting. Own-goals are also certainly a thing, but it would take a serious mistake to end all of us, or even set us back that far technologically on a geologic time scale.
I must be a pessimist in this regard. I don't necessarily think it would take a serious mistake, rather just the nature of complexity itself will likely become a factor at some point and I can imagine certain scenarios playing out based off that.
When you compare the length of time of humanity spent pre-neolithic-revolution with the short ~14,000 odd years since, I can't help but feel our current trajectory won't see us reach hundreds of thousands more years into the future without a serious backslide in that time.
Humanity is pretty darn resilient, but the last few years have highlighted to me that modern day life is some weird fantasy land we've created for ourselves that has an expiry date at some point in the future.
The government just should give you a card sized mini computer with 2 large primes stored in it, and everyone is perfectly fine. In fact, more secure, than the current situation?
It'd be better to ask something personal. "What did we do to Christmas/Birthday/[other event] last year? Who was with us?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer
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1. Ignore voice messages
2. Ask pointed questions to any live caller, esp. one calling from a new number and asking for money...
"In case we get cut off, what phone number can I call you back on?"
If they actually give you a number instead of hanging up (which has NEVER happened in the many times I've used this line), just hang up immediately and call them back, to see if they answer.