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Clever social engineering is really customized, but social engineering that works "often enough" is mostly reducible to a flow chart.

If you can automate it, your response rate only needs to be, what, like people clicking on spam? Tiny.

The days of trusting meat sacks with important information might be numbered.

Someone should make the dystopia where Skynet doesn't build terminators, but call centers.



When people talk about AI taking over, they really need to consider this route. Social engineering most of the world simultaneously. It doesn't have to build armies of robots when we'll tear everything down for it.


It's more like ai empowering individuals tremendously and some of these empowered people using their abilities to do harm




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