alt Hacker NewsI have ollama responding to SMS spam texts. I told it to feign interest in whatever the spammer is selling/buying. Each number gets its own persona, like a millennial gymbro or 19th century British gentleman.
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You realize this is going to cause carriers to allow the number to send more spam, because it looks like engagement. The best thing to do is to report the offending message to 7726 (SPAM) so the carrier can take action. You can also file complaints at the FTC and FCC websites, but that takes a bit more effort.
Calling Jessica an old chap is quite a giveaway that it's a bot xD Nice idea indeed, but I have a feeling that it's just two LLMs now conversing with each other.
Most spam are just verifying you exist as a person, then from there you become an actual "target" if you respond.
This feels like an in-between that both wastes their time and adds you to extra lists.
Send the results somewhere! Not sure if "law enforcement" is applicable (as in, would be able/willing to act on the info) but if so, that's a great use of this data :)
This is fantastic. How have your hooked up a mobile number to the llm?
Cool! Do you consider the risk of unintentional (and until some moment, an unknown) subscription to some paid SMS service and how do you mitigate it?
You probably just get more spam texts since you're replying. Maybe that's a good thing tbh
Where was this during the election
You should put all these interactions on the web. For education purposes ofc.
Please tell me you have a blog/archive of these somewhere. This was such a joy to read!
I love this, more please!!!
Given the source, I'm skeptical it's not just a troll, but found this explanation [0] plausible as to why those vague spam text exists. If true, this trolling helps the spammers warm those phone numbers up.
0 - https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1867029883387580571