Very good use of AI.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I like the idea of wasting telemarketing company resources, but we have to remember the people calling us are actual human being forced into shitty jobs where they suffer abusive management thanks to capitalism. So "torturing telemarketers" sounds bad to me, as does being rude to them or leaving them to talk into silence.
I usually pick up the phone, announce that I will hang up in 20 seconds, wish them a good day and then block the number.
I used to get 1-2 call per day, now it's more around 1 every 2 or 3 weeks.
This is a really cool use of GPT, I love it! Anything that makes telemarketers and scammers waste their time and raises their costs/lowers their profitability is a good thing, in my view.
Saving this one. That’s funny, and possibly useful
I usually pick up and then mute myself and put it on the side from unknown number. Usually it's bot on the other side and will kinda delist you? If you hang up right away or don't answer without blocking the number, it will call again.
But this does not work for say, Telus marketing people if you are one of their customers. They will just keep calling. :(
"GPT-4 does a pretty good job of saying dumb things that are somewhat funny” lmao anyway, this kind of tech is exactly what we need. If the scammer talks to a bot, then it's not talking to someones susceptible granny.