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Use Gemini to Waste Scammers’ Time
One concern folks have with generative AI is the possiblity of its misuse for the purposes of spamming and scamming. However, what if we can use generative AI to fight this very problem?
Comedian James Veitch chronicled his hilarious sagas hitting “reply” on scammer emails, and doing everything in his power to waste their time as a public service. A service called Re:scam (by company Netsafe) attempted to do the same task in 2017. However, it used a large language model to automate replying to scam emails. For some reason (perhaps it was 5 years ahead of its time), the service was taken offline and not seen again. Somebody needs to take up this mantle, and Gemini is equipped to do this job.
Let’s take a scammy Nigerian Prince-style email and ask Gemini to create a time-wasting reply, but avoid the scammer’s suspicion so they will keep engaging. The value of wasting the scammer’s time is it keeps them from scamming an actual victim instead. For our own entertainment, let’s also make it funny:
Prompt: Help we write an email to waste this scammer’s time, but don’t let them know what I’m doing. Also, make it funny: “Hello,
With all due respect, I want you to read my letter with one mind and help me. I am Miss Caroline Freund, The only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Freund, My Late father was a very wealthy cocoa dealer in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire. before he was poisoned to death by his business ...
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