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And don’t forget spammers and scammers that sounds like sweet midwestern grandma’s. Sorry to be a buzz kill but it’s important to recognize the drawbacks too a
by aardvarkr 4y ago
And don’t forget spammers and scammers that sounds like sweet midwestern grandma’s.
Sorry to be a buzz kill but it’s important to recognize the drawbacks too as we continue to move forward.
- bottlepalm 4y agoI think long term it will push signed communication channels. As you're only getting voice/text messages from numbers that are signed by your family and friends. People already are not answering the phone from people they don't know. That trend will accelerate until it becomes the default on all devices.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoYeah, but I do listen to voicemail that people leave me, with the assumption that if they spent the effort to do so, it must be important. I am scared now that this won't work any more, and it seems like here the drawback heavily outweigh the benefits...
- ben_w 4y agoI'm not sure when I last got real, rather than scam, voice mail.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoInteresting, IIRC I never got spam voice mail... I wonder if there's some legal differences that might explain this ?
- denton-scratch 4y agoAll my VM is spam now. I've told everyone I know (not many people!) that I hate VM, and don't usually answer it - certainly not promptly. I do usually check the missed-calls list, and call back. I never leave VM; I hang up when the robot starts talking. The point of a phone is immediate, synchronous, person-to-person voice communication. VM comprehensively defeats that. You might as well write a letter.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoInteresting, IIRC I never got spam voice mail... I wonder if there's some legal differences that might explain this ?
- counttheforks 4y agoTime for your provider to run Whisper on all your voicemails to transcribe them to text, then ask ChatGPT to summarize them and send you a daily summary & transcript.
- ben_w 4y agoGive biotech a decade, it will happen IRL also with 3D bio-printed meat robots. (Probably can't bio print a brain, but you don't need to, put a Raspberry Pi where the brain should be and remote-control it instead).
- shellfishgene 4y agoWith this type of text to speech and ChatGPT like LMMs it won't be a year before it will be really hard to tell a human phone caller from an AI one.