Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI. In a Friday security alert, the federal cops warned the public to be on the lookout for emails and texts purporting to come from …
I find myself being accused of using AI to punch up my writing a lot. I'm not sure if I'm more offended of being that neutral sounding (I do put some effort into sounding as graceful as I can) or being regarded as lazy enough to use AI to write my emails for me.
It probably doesn't help that I'm fat with a deep abiding southern drawl that doesn't impress anyone as being particularly competent or intelligent.
I've recently been getting calls from what has got to be an AI chatbot. I still have a biz line and that is the one they call, along with other "sellers" of stuff I don't want. Anyway, I don't know how I know, but I know as soon as they say "Hello, this is Alice". Or whatever name they choose that call. Maybe it is too perfect, maybe too refined. I don't expect some minimum wage pressure cooker call center person to be that interested/educated to be doing call center work. Email is easy, I still use a plain text client and always check the headers. Laughable how easy to determine the provenance of an email from sender IP.
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