[muttled]

I'd be surprised, given the technical savviness and polish of these scams, if they weren't using LLM's that are scripted such that the bot isn't "aware" it's a scam.

[Muromec]

The real way they do it is by offering a nice job in IT to somebody with a passable written English (read Indian), then traffic them to Shan states in Myanmar and beat them into doing it. Apparently it scales better and is more predictable than LLM.

[gryn]

> Apparently it scales better and is more predictable than LLM.

there's something in this sentence that hit different.

[sp332]

Also the Philippines https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68562643

[RajT88]

I don't think they are. They don't immediately reply all the time. And like I say - they get annoyed sometimes and tell me to fuck off once they figure out I'm toying with them.

[dragonwriter]

LLMs (either online services—which also risk getting cut off—or the hardware to run them locally) are probably a lot more expensive than trafficked workers.

[harkinian]

These scams have been going on since before LLMs were passable in English convo, and I'll bet they're still using whatever human labor they had.