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A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game (www.npr.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago

Ah, an upgrade for Lenny the chatbot. It can drive scammers nuts.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kitboga tried to do something similar. He would send scammers fake receipts from Bitcoin ATMs and tell them they have to call to finish the transaction. Then he had an AI customer service answer the calls. It's funny to watch but the model he used struggled a lot with coming up with realistic reasons why it was taking so long.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember his chatbot keeping a scammer busy for like 40 minutes, I haven't checked back in for a while though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Currently watching a VOD from a week ago and he's still working on it. His team made a much more streamlined display for it and it's stopped saying "pauses" out loud. He's also experimented with letting chat feed the bot prompts and seemed surprised that they made it talk like a pirate.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And scammers will create AI chatbots to try and scam people, we'll end up with a lot of computing power and bandwith lost for endless conversations, everything is fine

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Then the data from these chatbot conversations will be sold & used to program "better" chatbots...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The only valid use case for an LLM.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

I can think of a lot of other uses. ChatGPT is miraculously good at Arabic to English translation, where every other service before it has been relatively shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

There are a ton of valid use cases for an LLM, but the problem is that they're billed as a complete solution instead of a tool.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

She and Lenny should hook up and become a power couple

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Well scammers are using bots too, so it's just going to be to two bots talking to each other and the only winners are the LLM providers and power utilities.