"SPAM CALL FOR MAURICE! SPAM CALL F..."
"Stop yelling!"
"But you asked me to do this."
"I did not."
"Look here at this chat history. You said, one of my tasks is to 'scream suspicious phone calls.'"
"Hmm... Oh, I know, the autocomplete messed things up. I meant you to *screen* the calls, not *scream* them."
The local newspaper has an article online warning people against silent calls where you are called by an unknown number/caller and noone says anything. They warn to say anything as everything you say might be used to train an AI to imitate your voice.
They also warn to use the word "yes" in calls with unknown callers as they might use this out of context and try to sell you something.
I would love I could say this is exaggerating. But truly, I'm not sure and I can't.
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