That’s bad, but at the same time, there’s public data aggregators that sell your info, and you could go out right now and find your name, phone numbers you’ve had, former and current addresses, people you’ve lived with, former and current jobs, etc. It’s kind of terrifying what’s “public information,” and yet they continue to be allowed to operate with virtual impunity.
I’m not saying we should just accept things, but cutting off this “training data” would be a great start, and if companies can’t, then they should be forced to cease operations (including AI chatbots).
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.
Like how people were flooded with calls to Jenny, when that song came out and everyone just had to dial 8675309 lol
More recently, Mike Jones (Rapper) famously gave out his phone number in a song as well: (281)330-8004.
Why would he do that?
According to the song.
Hit Mike Jones up on the low, cause Mike Jones about to blow
“Call me to buy cocaine” or maybe just artistic impression, who can say? Nobody if they know what’s good for them.
The silver lining would be that you could call those people all kinds of dumb without possible recourse.
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.
AI chatbots could dissect your children and we’d still keep them. We’re finished caring about anything but money and power.
I’d like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.
Does no-one remember phone books?
But these were only for land lines, no?
True, but they also included your address.
Also you could opt out or had to opt in, no?
I remember having a ‘silent number’, i.e. opting out, was pretty rare.
