O2 said the tool had been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time
  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    2 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
      13·
      1 day 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·
      2 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·
        2 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)