Most scams try to put an obvious “tell” that it’s a scam early in the message.
Why do they do this? Because every person that falls for the scam initially will have to contact a scammer who then sends further messages/does a phone call etc to pull off the scam. This requires labor hours to deal with each potential victim.
So by putting an obvious tell, the only people who consume the scammer’s time have some mental deficiency—often caused by untreated aging—that causes them to still think the scam is legit. So they are easier to rob.
That is really interesting. To me, this implies that as costs for scammers are lowered, the threshold for a useful level of gullibility is about to lower dramatically, given how much cheaper server time is than human time (error bar here, since I don’t actually know how much cheaper GPT-X calls will be than the time of an English-speaking human in a developing nation). If it is indeed 10x lower, that would likely lead to scams losing an obvious “tell”.
So here’s something super interesting.
Most scams try to put an obvious “tell” that it’s a scam early in the message.
Why do they do this? Because every person that falls for the scam initially will have to contact a scammer who then sends further messages/does a phone call etc to pull off the scam. This requires labor hours to deal with each potential victim.
So by putting an obvious tell, the only people who consume the scammer’s time have some mental deficiency—often caused by untreated aging—that causes them to still think the scam is legit. So they are easier to rob.
That is really interesting. To me, this implies that as costs for scammers are lowered, the threshold for a useful level of gullibility is about to lower dramatically, given how much cheaper server time is than human time (error bar here, since I don’t actually know how much cheaper GPT-X calls will be than the time of an English-speaking human in a developing nation). If it is indeed 10x lower, that would likely lead to scams losing an obvious “tell”.
Well more exactly the tell would still be there, it just would become less obvious. Since GPT-n isn’t going to be free either.