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I totally disagree. For one, for every minute the spammers spend on someone trolling them, that is real harm not being done to people in the world. That’s high
by a12k 2y ago
I totally disagree. For one, for every minute the spammers spend on someone trolling them, that is real harm not being done to people in the world. That’s high value. Second, this is a fun side project that this person would have been investing time in regardless (I assume), so it might as well be a side project that adds real value to the world.
- swatcoder 2y agoSo you believe it's a human on the other end. In that case, an LLM might meet the efficiency criteria, sure. More likely, though it's using an even more cost efficient technique and isn't consuming much or any human attention at all here.
- a12k 2y agoIt’s a human on the other end. My suspicion of how it works is that the first several messages are scripted no matter the response, and then upon passing some gates you get a human in the loop. Makes sense too, them not wasting a human on the first several messages.
- deadbabe 2y agoIt’s little to no value. These SMS operations are very efficient and horizontally scalable, running thousands of conversations in parallel, even one human can be talking to multiple people.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoWhat if the spammer’s alternative to interacting with you/the LLM is to sit around chit chatting with their friends waiting for a call/chat queue? I don’t think it’s necessarily a given that a spammer spends with a troll is one minute the spammer isn’t spamming to someone else