Colin Cogle 🔵Part of the problem with running your own #selfhosted #email server is dealing with spam. I use RBLs and whatnot, but when something gets by, part of the fun is using #Postfix to get creative with the #SMTP transactions. #unexpectedbeatles
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound@colincogle
If it wasn't for the risk of false positives and the cost, it'd be tempting to feed the spam to an LLM with a suitably hostile prompt and see how long it could keep them talking.
If it wasn't for the risk of false positives and the cost, it'd be tempting to feed the spam to an LLM with a suitably hostile prompt and see how long it could keep them talking.
Patrick Morris Miller@vidar Someone in an MMO once accused me of being a bot, so I played man-in-the-middle with them and M-x doctor (helps to be a fast typist). Had them going for more than five minutes.
@kentenmakto Hah! Probably an even stupider audience, but at one point, spurred on by seeing people interact with channel bots on IRC, I put up one that would *just* repeat one of the same 4-5 bland messages at random every time you messaged it, and while most caught on pretty quickly, a few kept chatting with it. One got into a lengthy "argument" with it over a half-hour period where he got increasingly irate at the repetition.
Of course, people are more used to bots now (this was ~25y ago)
@vidar The audio version of this works really well on telemarketers, especially because unless you cuss at them or say 'put me on your do not <click>' they get in trouble with their bosses if they hang up on you. I heard a recording once that had me in stitches.