[HN Gopher] Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
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       Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
        
       I've been working on a side project to generate responses to spam
       with various funny LLM personas, such as a millenial gym bro and a
       19th century British gentleman. By request, I've made a write-up on
       my website which has some humorous screenshots and made the code
       available on Github for others to try out [0].  A brief outline of
       the system:  - Android app listens for incoming SMS events and
       forwards them over MQTT to a server running Ollama which generates
       responses - Conversations are whitelisted and manually assigned a
       persona. The LLM has access to the last N messages of the
       conversation for additional context.  [0]:
       https://github.com/evidlo/sms_llm  I'm aware that replying can
       encourage/allow the sender to send more spam. Hopefully reporting
       the numbers after the conversation is a reasonable compromise.
        
       Author : Evidlo
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-01-22 19:23 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (evan.widloski.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (evan.widloski.com)
        
       | gaudystead wrote:
       | Nice work and thank you for the write up! Part of me is wondering
       | if your bot is talking to actual humans or other bots (albeit not
       | as advanced) because it seems like they just continue pushing
       | forward with their script as opposed to getting wary.
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       | However, I watch a lot of scam baiting and I've seen a lot of
       | them - even on a live phonecall - be told ridiculously outlandish
       | statements that the scammer will gloss over and return to their
       | script, so I'm not ruling out that it's still a real human...
        
       | pavel_lishin wrote:
       | I'd love to connect two SMS spammers to each other, and have an
       | app forward messages from Spammer A to spammer B, and vice versa.
        
       | RushiSushi wrote:
       | Good work brodude123 ha! How quickly does the system respond to
       | the real estate messages?
        
         | Evidlo wrote:
         | Takes about 5 seconds to generate the response, plus another
         | 10-15 seconds for the gateway app to be woken up and forward
         | the message.
        
           | RushiSushi wrote:
           | Ah sweet. That's a neat approach. I'm working on something
           | within the SMS space, would love to run it by you if you'd
           | approach it differently
        
       | mutant wrote:
       | I didn't realize mqtt was so versatile, dope
        
         | Evidlo wrote:
         | It's just one of many ways to do this. Websockets, ZeroMQ, HTTP
         | long-polling, or just a plain old TCP socket would have worked
         | as well, just to name a few. I just went with MQTT because
         | somebody had already implemented 95% of what I needed.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786869
        
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