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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
(www.technologyreview.com)
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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The silver lining would be that you could call those people all kinds of dumb without possible recourse.
I get plenty of calls from people who can be generously described as telemarketers should I need targets outside of the usual social media folks.