A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game

[1srelluc]

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5220362/daisy-ai-granny-o2-fraud-spam-prevention

British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled a new creation, Daisy, a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence "granny" who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people.

"Hello, scammers. I'm your worst nightmare," Daisy says by way of introduction to would-be ne'er-do-wells.

In the video introduction, featuring former Love Island contestant and scam victim Amy Hart, scammers are heard feeling much of the same frustrations they put their victims through as Daisy breezily yammers on about her kitten, Fluffy, and her inability to follow the scammers' instructions.

"I think your profession is bothering people, right?" one defeated scammer tells Daisy after being given the runaround.

"It's nearly been an hour! For the love of [bleep]," another yells in frustration.

But for Daisy, time couldn't be less of a concern.

"While they're busy talking to me, they can't be scamming you. And let's face it, dear, I've got all the time in the world," she says.

O2, the company behind the scam-baiting granny, said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time. Daisy was trained with the help of YouTuber and software engineer Jim Browning, who has made an online career exposing scammers to his community of 4.4 million subscribers.

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O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people, while...

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I think trump should have the NSA focus on finding the scam call centers and then we start dropping JDAMs on them. Host a scam, get a JDAM.

I don't care if the call center is in downtown Mumbai.

They could even be sponsored.....I'd kick in a fiver.

 

[Mac-7]

Daisy was trained with the help of YouTuber and software engineer Jim Browning, who has made an online career exposing scammers to his community of 4.4 million subscribers.

I’m one of his subscribers

I only wish there was a way to physically harm the scammers

 

[1srelluc]

I’m one of his subscribers

I only wish there was a way to physically harm the scammers

How does it work? Dedicated line?

 

[The Duke]

Damn! And all I have is a Windows 7 with a "Beef, it's what's for dinner"
Beef Desktop and notepad with big letters to tell them they're filthy untouchables as I let them connect to my comp and see what all they can find. Which is me telling them they're filthy untouchables and they ain't gonna get shit.
No, I'm not paying them for my "program files" back, there was nothing there anyway. I try to drag it out if I'm feelin' frisky.

 

[The Duke]

I’m one of his subscribers

I only wish there was a way to physically harm the scammers

Well you can use wireshark and call their ISP and they might lose service.
Or their IP might be isolated.

 

[Mac-7]

How does it work? Dedicated line?

No

I meant that I subscribe to his YouTube channel

 

[Mac-7]

Well you can use wireshark and call their ISP and they might lose service.
Or their IP might be isolated.

I mean take them out in the ally and beat the snot out of them

 

[BULLDOG]

I've been doing my part to emulate Daisy for quite a while even though I have never been able to keep them on the line for that long. I'll tell them to hold on while I find a pen to write down their instructions, or while I let the cat out. When I think they are ready to hang up anyway, I'll start singing or ask for oral sex.

 

[hadit]

Well you can use wireshark and call their ISP and they might lose service.
Or their IP might be isolated.

Denial of service. Set up an auto dialer to flood their call center with thousands of simultaneous calls.