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This ‘AI Granny’ hack wastes telephone scammers’ time with boring chit-chat
O2 has created an "AI granny" to keep scammers on the call, with the express purpose of wasting as much of their valuable time as possible.
Daisy, as the bot is called, embraces “human-like rambling chat” to keep the scammers talking, with the express purpose of wasting their time with stories of family, knitting, and divulging entirely made-up personal information including bank details. Made with help from YouTuber, software engineer, and renowned “scambaiter” Jim Browning, Daisy combines various AI models to listen and respond to calls. But it’s not something you’ll be able to use yourself (as fun as that would be) — O2 says it managed to get some of its own phone numbers added to lists used by scammers for this exercise.
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