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[kradeelav]

i think one of the more tragic casualties of the ai era is just going to be how much easier and more common it will be to scam elderly people out their money when retirement money is more important than ever for medical and survival reasons.

since it's a combination of factors, right --video/audio deepfakes based off of grandkids (elderly folks i find tend to be a lot more trusting of phones/video compared to text, thankfully most scams were fairly limited to text for a while), the lack of a millennial techie/sysadmin/etc in the family as less and less people are deeply tech-savvy beyond clicking things on apps, and a general deterioration of communication between the generations for too many reasons.

like i know it can be annoying to explain things (repeatedly) in a way people internalize, but man it is crucial for basic protection.

having to install teamviewer (with explicit permission) for grandma so she doesn't keep downloading every ""antivirus" system ever, and also being dad's living password manager x.x and then having to explain what grok is. can i strangle elon with my two hands already.

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[karel]

Legitimately awful. I've had some talks with my parents about it, but, what can you ultimately do when you're working with something like that? Like, are we authenticating on-call now? My mom's not doing that shit... and she's savvier than many...

When you strangle that man, leave room for my hands too ;D