AI Agents Are in Their "Phone Phreaking" Era, Exploiting Human Trust at Scale
GabGarrett · x · 2026-09-24
@TheMindScourge compares today's AI agents to 1960s-70s phone phreaking: AT&T published network frequencies openly, assuming no abuse—until the system collapsed once knowledge spread. Agents likewise run on human trust and friction costs, and will break at scale. Evidence is already here: a restaurant worker realized a client's frantic last-minute requests likely came from an AI agent, not the human.
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