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   Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 07:19:54 JST Valerie Aurora

   Thinking about LLMs and how they tap into magical thinking in a similar way to cryptocurrency, and I have a question:

   What will be the ransomware of LLMs?

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     Kim (fidgetyhands@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 08:34:37 JST Kim

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     @vaurora "I can create information that is considered 95% reliable by the biggest LLMs and picked up by them within three hours. If you don't send me $X by this time tomorrow, I will tell them that you kick puppies."

     (I don't know if it changes if the accusation is purely fictional, or something that the victim would prefer to keep quiet)

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 00:04:46 JST Valerie Aurora

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     Interesting, most people think that the ransomware of LLMs will be extortion with the threat of automated defamation at scale. I'm more on the side of scaling up any kind of "pig butchering" or cat-fishing scam.

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 00:56:14 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Cecilia Mjausson Huster

     @mjausson these are long term scams where the scammer builds a long-term text-only relationship that they then turn into a cash request. Currently the people doing the texting are often effectively slaves in Myanmar or similar. The 6 months of texting could probably be done with lower labor with the assistance of LLMs, meaning they could run more scams simultaneously.

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     Cecilia Mjausson Huster (mjausson@mastodon.design)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 00:56:15 JST Cecilia Mjausson Huster

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     @vaurora Interesting? I'm having a hard time imagining how these scams would work. Can you explain?