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Ask HN: Got contacted by LLM scam-bot on Telegram. How to DoS it?

by t0mk on 12/12/23, 9:33 PM with 1 comments

It's got my contact from a thematic group I'm in. I can see that the messages are LLM-generated. It wants me to either visit a website or share personal data.

The bot must be API-based (OpenAI) or built on open-weights model. In other words money-expensive or computational resource-expensive. I wonder if it's possible to engage it enough to cause some harm.

What to write to spin it as much as possible? What's a heavy prompt? Or sequence of prompts. I'm a programmer and I think I could code the Telegram messaging.

  • by terminous on 12/13/23, 12:02 AM

    Denial of service is a crime, even if you do it to criminals.