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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I don't think that it's actually providing the phone numbers that it knows are specific people.

It's generating a string of numbers that's formatted like a phone number and many of those happen to be valid. The people calling phone numbers from chatbots are the reason that all phone numbers in movies are 555-5555 or similar, because otherwise there'd be hundreds of people calling the poor person who happened to own that phone number trying to speak to James Bond personally.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Like how people were flooded with calls to Jenny, when that song came out and everyone just had to dial 8675309 lol

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    More recently, Mike Jones (Rapper) famously gave out his phone number in a song as well: (281)330-8004.

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