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Unless I know who you are, I'm not answering your call. 90% of the time it's a robot and the other 10% can leave a voicemail.
Isn't a voicemail worse for detecting deepfakes because it doesn't require it to dynamically listen and respond?
I'm not personally concerned about getting duped by a deep fake. I just don't want to talk to any robots, solicitors, or scammers.
I have had calls from similar numbers to my own, and seen caller ID’s for people that aren’t contacts. I haven’t picked them up, but the temptation was there to do so.
You might know the number. My wife used to live in Kenya and renamed her "Mum"/"Dad" contacts after they once got a call from her stolen phone saying she'd been arrested and they needed to send money for bail.
I'll go one farther - unless it's my doc, my wife, or my boss, I'm neither answering the call nor listening to the voicemail. That's what easily skimmable voicemail transcription is for...
I don't love the privacy implications of transcribed voicemail, ofc, but it's better for my own privacy/threat model than answering the phone to robots, scammers, and etc. It's also a hell of a lot better for my mental health, vs listening to them.
Same. Life is much better this way