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You're assuming that LLMs will boost spam and scams more than LLMs will tone them down by marginalizing them automatically. I have the opposite view. SMTP spam
by worstspotgain 2y ago
You're assuming that LLMs will boost spam and scams more than LLMs will tone them down by marginalizing them automatically. I have the opposite view. SMTP spam used to be mostly unavoidable, then one day it was not.
IMO, the number of engineers and moderators needed to offset one scammer is about to take a huge dive.
- lupire 2y agoWhat information led to your opinion?
- worstspotgain 2y agoI think LLMs have higher complexity in the white-/black-hat "struggle domain" than the weakest-link problem, maybe O(N^2) vs. O(NlogN). So if it used to be O(N) white against O(NlogN) black, it's now evenly matched, with O(N^2) LLMs on both sides.
- seanhunter 2y agoYour analysis overlooks a massive cost asymmetry[1] in favour of the spammer. THey only have to pay the LLM cost once to generate a message which they can use thousands/millions of times versus the receiving side would need to pay an LLM to check and classify each incoming message. [1]Either you pay a SaaS LLM provider or you pay the cost of compute to run the LLM yourself