AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created by O2 to waste phone scammers’ time

https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/o2-creates-ai-tool-waste-30370351

by Empty_Sherbet96

12 comments

  1. If this can fool scammers then so presumably can the flip side, AI scammers conning vulnerable people.

  2. I love things like this, scammers WILL be using AI in the future (if not already). Whilst this is for good, this will lead to two AIs talking to each other.

  3. Well, at least AI has done something good for once.

  4. Kitboga has been using something similar for a very long time, or he just nails the voice manually. I definitely appreciate these people a lot more than I used to.

    Most go for catching scammers or wasting their time, I’m pretty sure kitboga has escalated to causing psychological damage to scammers on a few occasions.

  6. A programmer in Australia set something like this up years ago. Not AI, but an automated bot responding to the scammer with a number of slightly confused sounding comments recorded by an elderly man.

    It was on youtube and quite amusing.

  7. Good. I’m getting no-end of scam calls at the moment. All linked to an Irish telecom company. I block every number but another number calls me instead. Those wack-a-mole c’nts can f’ck right right off!

  8. I do hope this has a nice granny type name, like DORIS, I can’t think of a great acronym, “Don’t oblige replies if scammer” is the best I can do… any other ideas?

  9. I would like to volunteer my father to assist in training this A.I. The scammer would probably end up killing themselves by the end.

  10. I like to string them along for a few minutes until I get bored and then ask if their grandparents are proud of them. This throws them a bit and that’s the time to chuck in a line about having brought great shame dishonour on their ancestors as they’re nothing but a common thief.

    They do *not* like to be called a “common thief” and the bit about shame and dishonour on the ancestors is just the icing on the fuck-you-scammer cake.

    They usually just hang up at that point, occasionally hurling a bit of abuse at you, sometimes even in English; but I did once make a girl burst into tears (maybe a grandparent had just died, IDK), and recently had the most polite scammer who said “Fuck off sir” before hanging up on me.

  11. That site has ads on top of ads in an ever increasing frenzy of desperate greed while the actual article is written to keep us reading without giving us the information baited in the title. So many sites are like that and they have nothing to do with news, just a touch ironic this one has scammers as its subject.

  12. Sounds like what Kitboga was doing a couple years back.

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