O2 said the tool had been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time
      • ImgonnatrythisEnglish
        41·
        7 days ago

        I’m beginning to believe humanity is mostly shit head scammers too.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 days ago

          Years ago I concluded (wrongly or rightly) that most people are neutral, a small handfull are actually good people (willing to sacrifice their personal benefit for people they don’t know with no expectation of gaining from it, even in the form of social approval) and a small handful are assholes, but the assholes do such a disproportionate amount of damage that they end up having a massive impact on everybody else.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              6 days ago

              Well, that’s the second part of my theory but I didn’t went into it to avoid muddling the point I was making:

              • I think the “neutral” majority shift more to one side or the other depending on who dominates society and the main sources of culture and information in it.

              So in present “Greed is good” (very much a Sociopath slogan) times with mainstream media and a large section of the Culture production and distribution (in the form of TV, but also TV Show and Movie making) in the hands of extremelly wealthy people and when those we are told we should look up to are people like Musk (well, him specifically maybe not anymore) and Bezos, the “neutral” majority has shifted significantly towards the asshole side of things.

              The World would be a lot different if our “heroes” were Scientists and Environmentalists.

              • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
                3·
                6 days ago

                yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

      • uhmbah@lemmy.caEnglish
        22·
        6 days ago

        [after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War]

        Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

    • yonderEnglish
      15·
      7 days ago

      Pretty good, but you can already waste scammer’s time with Lenny.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    105·
    7 days ago

    Soon all the scammers will be replaced with AI, and we’ll just have AIs calling AIs all day long.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    7 days ago

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

    • Treasure@feddit.orgEnglish
      16·
      7 days 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. ^^

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 days 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)

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    261·
    7 days ago

    After replacing writers and artists it is now replacing the entire category of, “old people”. AI has reached the, “final solution” faster than I thought possible!

    • _haha_oh_wow_English
      12·
      7 days ago

      It already existed, check out Lenny. Glad there are more options now though so scammers will be slower to catch on.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
            9·
            7 days ago

            AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        It’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.

        Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉

  • CyprianSceptre@feddit.ukEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    To be fair, O2 has a massive issue with scammers and they need to do something about it. I switched to O2 about a year ago, keeping my old number. I’d rarely get scam calls or texts before I switched but since I’ve been with o2, I get 5-10 calls a week. Particularly annoying because I have to answer my phone due to my job

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I’d rarely get scam calls or texts before I switched but since I’ve been with o2, I get 5-10 calls a week.

      Maybe O2 should stop selling your data?

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    I used the rot to destroy the rot

    Real talk though I love these applications of AI and will enthusiastically support them