Not directly related, but adjacent to quora likely turning into an AI dispenser: I knew that it would generate a whole bunch of crap through existing channels—

Not directly related, but adjacent to quora likely turning into an AI dispenser: I knew that it would generate a whole bunch of crap through existing channels— like the ones that were being fed by SEO-driven writers or fake product reviews on YouTube that are just a slide show of product shots taken from Amazon and their descriptions read in a text-to-speech voice— but I hadn't considered that it could make really low-quality previously impossible business concepts juuuust barely profitable enough to be worth it to someone. I imagine we're going to see brand-new paradigms in spam that we never imagined would be worthwhile. Is there anything stopping phone companies from training models based on your voicemail messages? Imagine if data brokers started collecting and selling them? Sure the whole fraud thing is a an obvious problem, but how about your best friend's voice on a voicemail saying "I've got something of life-or-death importance to tell you. Call me back when you get this message at nnnnnnnnn," and when you call, it's your simulated best friend breathlessly answering "OH thank god you called back. Please listen carefully: You're in grave danger every moment you spend in your home without a reliable security system, and here at... " And probably some even weirder than that. I've already started seeing low-quality bulk-generated images pop up in my image searches... That's a problem I didn't forsee a couple of years ago.