Is Pig Butchering destined to put human criminals out of work with AI actors ?
I was listening to this story on wired.com:
https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scam-invasion/
I suspect that pig butchering (scamming people online with crypto currency offers) refers to the fact that it is hard to scam people who aren't greedy. I honestly can't understand the interest in crypto - it just sounds like a scam to begin with - why is it worth anything at all ? - why do governments around the world allow crypo - that's one thing that government is usually pretty jealous about: coining / printing money.
And of course since the narration was by an AI voice (since it didn't say Eleven Labs maybe is it TTSopenai or something similar ? Mentioned TTSopenai.com here:
https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-think-i-will-give-up-i-think-i-will.html
How long will it be until the AI voices and AI interaction via text are perfected to the point that they pass the Turing test ? They are VERY close now IMO. If so, couldn't a criminal gang hijack the AI and have it run the same scripts as the trafficked humans ? That would eliminate the need to kidnap people, support them, cut them in on the action and so on ? Even if the hit rates weren't as good as with real humans it might be more profitable ? The AI would be able to work 24/7/365 - the only cost is electricity and an internet connection along with the computing - potentially a lot more profitable than unscalable human beings !
On the other hand there is this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1fs9wlf/analyzing_poop_fart_written_1000_times_creating/
Maybe it will be a while before AI turns from being glib and superficial to something actually hard for a real human to spot.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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