TechTakes

Very astute observation about how we're a very language oriented species and that essentially AI is a perfect vehicle for confidence men. I've said before all LLMs have really done is create a computer that is as inconsistent as a human, and in a way, that works in the favor of these things as confidence trickster tools.

When scammers make their scams, they often aim them at the simplest people possible, and what folks like us see as obvious mistakes that give away the game immediately are actually there because they don't want people like us wasting their time. They want the easiest of easy marks, and the easiest don't know how to read so good.

An AI is in many ways the ultimate confidence man, always speaking in confidence and authority without understanding behind the words. Literally just empty words, like a real live conman.

But more importantly, like the scams that pull in the weakest, the mistakes AI makes may make it seem more human to them. This could potentially aid it as a tool for confidence men, both big (Sam Altman) and small (email scammer).

I personally am of the opinion that as a society we shouldn't just being letting the most vulnerable being taken advantage of at all times, and we certainly shouldn't be financially rewarding fools for making the tools to do so easily accessible.