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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time

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AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time

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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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O2 said the tool had been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time
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  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    Soon all the scammers will be replaced with AI, and we’ll just have AIs calling AIs all day long.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      Way back in the 90s my friend and I let two instances of Eliza talk to each other for hours.

    • Wrongdoer4094@lemmy.world
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      That’s already happening on the internet (dead internet theory)

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      already happened

    • mesa@lemmy.world
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      You are not wrong.

      We do have automated AI that applies for jobs for you now. Its kinda hilarious in a dystopian way. https://github.com/AIHawk-co/Auto_Jobs_Applier_AI_Agent

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        I hate that we need this.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    Best use case for AI I’ve come across.

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      Plot twist: AI comes to believe humanity consists solely of shithead scammers, initiates nuclear war

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        I’m beginning to believe humanity is mostly shit head scammers too.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.works
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      Pretty good, but you can already waste scammer’s time with Lenny.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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    Nice, there’s also Lenny, which is great as well.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      Lenny was insanely effective and didn’t even need AI.

    • junderwood@lemmy.world
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      Awww, Lenny! I hope his third-eldest, Larissa is doing ok.

      • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.world
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        🦆… 🗞️💥

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

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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.

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    Was wondering how long it would take to roll something like this out. Bout time.

    • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
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      Been around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com

    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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      It already existed, check out Lenny. Glad there are more options now though so scammers will be slower to catch on.

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    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!

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      as long as the AI will give me sweets when I visit, I’m okay with it

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    We’ve finally found it - an ethical application for deepfake AI

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    Plot twist: its just an AI impersonating a broke college student selling ceramic knives to an AI impersonating a broke grandma.

    This is now 80% of your monthly minutes. Bullshit AI talking to bullshit AI. No wonder this was created by a phone company.

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    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

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