Technology

59366 readers

4021 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

570

AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time (www.mylondon.news)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

48 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I first assumed this was a Kitboga project or something, but the fact that it's a mobile provider doing it themselves is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

I am a Patreon supporter of Jim Browning. Incidentally, I got this email today:

At last, I can reveal something I've been working on in conjunction with a major UK cellphone operator, O2. Meet dAIsy. Daisy is an AI bot who answers scam phone calls. Thanks to the mobile operator who can fingerprint scam phone calls via the calling pattern, source, sequence of calls and other markers, scam calls are being diverted to an AI bot who has been trained to keep the scammers on the phone as long as possible.

This is my recording of a Zoom interview I had today with Channel 5 news in the UK where you can see dAIsy in action.

I will continue to train dAIsy with real scam phone calls. When we perfect her, the aim is to work with other cell and landline operators to divert scam calls to thousands of instances of dAIsy. [...]

So you're not wrong about this being a project of some anti-scam YouTuber, you just guessed the wrong one. ^^

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if mobile providers are still getting paid for long distance calls. Because if they are, they have a perverse incentive to keep scammers on the line.

Which, in this isolated case, I'm okay with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

But don't you see?! Those increased expenses will just be passed along to the scammed!

(No actual point here just thought it was funny to compare to the logic we hear for not punishing other abusive businesses)