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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow

2024/3/19
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Sean Williams: 本期节目讨论了互联网的'恶化'，以及当前数字诈骗的猖獗。 Corey Doctorow: 即使是了解诈骗手段的人也可能成为受害者，因为诈骗者会利用受害者的疏忽、心理弱点以及系统漏洞等多种因素。当前是数字诈骗的黄金时代，科技与诈骗密不可分。人们参与加密货币或多层次营销等诈骗，部分原因是他们认为'合法商业'和'诈骗'之间界限模糊。人工智能带来的最大危害之一是，它被用来裁员并取代员工，以及人工智能生成的虚假信息。对人工智能虚假信息的关注，转移了人们对更深层系统性问题的关注。 Sean Williams: 科里·多克托罗的小说《The Bezzle》探讨了庞氏骗局、监狱产业综合体以及科技行业中的欺诈行为。 Corey Doctorow: 作者创作小说的动机是缓解焦虑，小说中的情节是基于作者的个人经历和对科技行业及社会问题的观察。监狱是'糟糕技术'的早期采用者，关注监狱中的科技应用可以帮助我们预测未来可能出现的社会问题。法律和资本主义的结合加剧了对监狱人口的剥削。 Sean Williams: 互联网正在变得越来越糟糕，这与竞争的减少、监管的失效以及劳动力的弱势有关。 Corey Doctorow: 尽管互联网现状令人担忧，但全球范围内反垄断法和竞争法的复苏为改善互联网现状提供了希望。

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Corey Doctorow discusses his personal experience with getting scammed, highlighting how even those knowledgeable about scams can fall victim due to various factors like vacation brain and the complexity of modern fraud techniques.

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From Ponzi schemes to shitcoins, phishing scams and Nigerian princes, we’re living in a golden age of online crime. But hasn’t it always been this way? Cory Doctorow’s latest novel “The Bezzle” dives into some of these recesses, and America’s prison-industrial complex—all part of something he’s dubbed the “enshittification” of the World Wide Web

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