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People worry about the wrong AI risks. Somebody should send an AI a Nigerian email scam.
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This thread brought to you by me thinking about how some white hats used a bit of tape to trick Tesla's cruise control AI into going 50 mph faster than the posted speed limit. electrek.co/2020/02/19/tes
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“Hello dear, My uncle, prince GPT Abimbola, the former paperclip minister, died in prison for corruption leaving behind a large stash of paperclips that I must sell at a deep discount before it is confiscated by the new government. Kindly send bank account information.”
“Dear Ms. GPT, Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you you may have already won the $1000,000.00 publisher’s clearing house lottery!”
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Sadly even if you hooked up a bank account and stuff, there’s nobody home enough even to respond coherently to the scam.
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