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One day, we're going to have google hangouts or phone calls with "people" that look, act, talk like they're real, but are actually AI. I dread when scammers wil
by mtw 8y ago
One day, we're going to have google hangouts or phone calls with "people" that look, act, talk like they're real, but are actually AI. I dread when scammers will get their hands on this tech. I'm already have enough trouble getting 5 calls a day about automated voice scams, imagine getting a call from an AI that acts and talks like a real person.
- amelius 8y agoThat's when we'll switch to whitelisting.
- icelancer 8y agoMost younger people (< 30 years old) already do this anyway and refuse to answer phone calls from numbers that are not already in their contact list. I know I do and I'm not young anymore.
- russh 8y agoUnfortunately that stops being an option when your parents become elderly and missing a emergency call from an unknown number has unpleasant repercussions you would like to avoid.
- matte_black 8y agoSet your voicemail message to tell them to leave a message or to send a text.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoDidn’t google already create that? Fake “real” caller who can respond to what you are saying.
- placebo 8y agoGoogle Duplex https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/google-duplex-is-calling-we-talk-to-the-revolutionary-but-limited-phone-ai/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/google-duplex-is-cal...
- a3n 8y agoI dread when law enforcement get their hands on it. This will take planting evidence on a "suspect" up an order of magnitude.
- Fjolsvith 8y agoThat will be the day when you have your personal evidence recording device on 24/7 so you can prove your alibi.
- swagasaurus-rex 8y agoAnd in court they can claim the alibi is a high-fidelity fabrication.
- andrewnicolalde 8y agoBut surely then they wouldn't be immune to claims that their evidence wasn't a high-fidelity fabrication as well?
- a3n 8y agoLaw enforcement is generally given the benefit of the doubt. They're professionals.
- ben_w 8y agoNot immune, but law enforcement generally has trust-by-default from the general population, whereas everyone they accuse has distrust-by-default. I don’t know how to solve that. Not even in principle, as even a hypothetical future A.I. jury, judge, lawyer, and cop would have the “what does ‘good evidence’ mean?” problem in addition to the incentive alignment problem that already makes many of us question the justice of our laws.
- Diederich 8y agoA possible protection could be: person can emit, every N minutes, a high bit cryptographic checksum of the previous checksum plus the last N minutes of recorded video. Send that value to the 'forever', public registry in the cloud, AKA some combo of Twitter, Facebook, GMail, FastMail, AliMail, etc. To be fabricated, it would have to be done in something approaching real time. Not absolute safety, but a seemingly easy step in that direction.