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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers (www.technologyreview.com)

submitted 6 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

The silver lining would be that you could call those people all kinds of dumb without possible recourse.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

I get plenty of calls from people who can be generously described as telemarketers should I need targets outside of the usual social media folks.

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