Discussion

They’re Vibe-Coding Spam Now

righthand: Full circle.

saidnooneever: definitely a big issue especially with all the big places now vibe coding and leaking all our damned data in plaintext. a lot of people are getting hit real hard now. its not a joke or overstatement.

mbernstein: I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

varispeed: I don't answer the phone from anyone I don't know. If it is something important, they'll find a way to reach me.

gitmagic: Same, except for when I’m expecting a delivery, then I tend to answer calls from unknown numbers.

segmondy: ... does't matter if they got flagged as spam.

imiric: This is hardly new, and it goes far beyond spam emails. Most of the content produced and consumed on the internet is now done by machines. A human may or may not benefit from directing a machine to do this, and the ways they do are often highly opaque, with several layers of indirection. It doesn't take a genius to see that this is ushering in a new era of scams and spam."AI" companies are responsible for this mess. They should be held accountable for digging us out of it.

varispeed: I solved this by renting small office that has reception and they handle deliveries. They are not far and so if I get something I get a text and then I collect when is convenient for me. I really hate waiting for couriers to ring, so it's a massive stress relief.

add-sub-mul-div: That LLMs are enabling more use cases to hurt us than help us is too obvious to deny. But too many people think they're going to be the ones getting rich from it so they pretend it's not the case.