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My 93 year old friend “Carl” received a tearful call from a woman claiming to be his housekeeper “Mary”, with whom he is close, saying she was injured and in jail and needed bail money. Carl was instructed to call a public defender named Matthew Dickson at a certain phone number and arrange transfer of…

Sometimes a scammer calls when another scammer is already on the line, and they end up conferenced together … and, well, it’s magic. Until the annoying supervisor takes over. The sound the female scammer makes at 3:18 is so charming.

COMMENT: This will not be funny unless you are familiar with the SNL “Stefon” series of sketches with Bill Hader (see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEM7h3fz2RE). If you know those sketches, and read this aloud with the correct affect, it may be kinda funny. It is impressive how ChatGPT captures some structure of a Stefon sketch. ChatGPT…

COMMENT: In this chat I try to get ChatGPT to pick up on an inconsistency in my story. It is not very good at it. At least ChatGPT follows my instructions and does not fabricate evidence, this time! ME: Pretend I am a suspect in the murder of a waiter at Cracker Barrel. I want…

Comment: I think this conversation with ChatGPT is remarkable. The grammar and general interaction is so far ahead of where I thought we would be at this date that I am struck. ChatGPT is not yet a good prosecutor; however, for the first time I feel that the difference between human conversation and computer conversation…