Living room discussion about AI, empathy, and scams

I got a sketchy phone call about a bank card today, one that appeared to have the phone number of my bank. When they asked for the last eight of my bank card, I said "I'm just going to give you a call right back!" and ended the call. (The first 8 numbers on a 16 digit card are institution specific, so giving someone who knows your bank the last 8 is giving them the whole thing, basically.) Unfortunately I will have to call back tomorrow since there were Problems.

So the living room is talking about the application of things like ChatGPT in gaining empathy, and raised an important point:

the "con" in "con man" is "confidence".

ChatGPT is going to be great at getting the human connection part in conning people out of various money and information.


Also my phone number and bank information are probably part of some kind of leak.