The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.
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Your own grannies would like a 40 minute call. Maybe we could use real ones with support and then pay them a little for some cake and cuppa afterwards. Might end loneliness and deal with the cost of living crisis.
If any of you are interested, there is a HUGE scam baiting community on Twitch and Youtube. Streamers call them during a livestream. It's pretty entertaining and educational. It's good to know what to watch out for.
It’s not for you to use in your phone - they’ve got fake numbers that get put on the scammers’ call lists, so the scammers are wasting their time calling the fake numbers and talking to AI and have less time to call real numbers.
It'll be a surreal world if scammers start of phone calls with, "this is going to sound weird, but bear with me: in the phrase 'Looking at my wet newspaper, I wondered if the newspaper will survive its editorial staff cuts', can I grammatically replace 'the newspaper' with 'my wet newspaper'?"
Kitboga has been playing with something similar. They often do catch on, but they do struggle with it because scammers love to target people with failing mental facilities which blurs the line a lot. Even the scammers who are good at it take two to three minutes.
My late father gave away all his money to one of these scams. My brother sometimes tries to keep them on the line as long as possible like this AI to keep them from reaching someone more gullible.
I try and keep these people on the line as long as I can. A caller wanted to “fix” my computer. I pretended I didn’t know anything about computers. He had to explain everything to me. Eventually, he got mad when I wasn’t seeing the correct screen and said, are you kidding me? I said yes and hung up
About a year ago I asked one if we can skip the formalities and I'll just give him my credit card. I then proceeded to give him impossible credit card numbers for 20 minutes. The indignation he had when when he figured it out was worth it.
I was just amused by how mad he got when he figured it out. Dude, you are literally trying to steal from me right now. Sorry about the inconvenience and all.
The guy who was trying to fix my computer was also mad. I just pointed out that he was trying to gain access to my computer before I hung up. How dare I not let him cheat me. 🤣
Yep, tried it and been at least mildly successful. Of course my grannies may be better educated than the average, but I assure you they're not generally very techie
Decades ago, my family moved and it required a new land line. One Saturday night, the phone rang multiple times as a drunk fellow tried to get a cab, each time my father explaining he had the wrong number. Finally my father told him "Your cab will be there in ten minutes". Peace and quiet restored.
But but but...
If the scammer is also an AI, programmed not to give up, and Granny AI will never give in, .....
Will this create an AI "black hole" that sucks the entire internet into oblivion?
One can only hope....
You could probably run an AI grandma on a cell phone these days. Not much power at all to do occasional speech synthesis and generate dottering, delaying text.
AI scammer would probably need to be more convincing, but it's still not a heavyweight task.
Now half the phone calls going on at any given moment are going to be two AIs talking to each other trying to figure out if the other one's fake. Pretty sure this is how skynet developed.
Using an AI granny to waste the time of phone scammers is a brilliant innovation! Imagine if more companies in the U.S. invested in tech like this to protect the public. Small steps can make a big difference in fighting scams!
Many scammers require victims to call phone numbers, but some call directly. Can the phone company properly intercept phone calls with these bots before reaching victims?
Love it . I did that to had a scammer had him going for about 10 minutes before he cottoned on. I was bored and had been watching this guy onYouTube that scammed scammers for Hours. He is awesome.
I've tried that sort of thing here by conversing with bots that follow me and then immediately DM me. However, after a few pleasant exchanges, they invariably lose interest in me when I politely refuse to install WhatsApp or Telegram on my phone.
Don't tell them that you refuse to install it, just keep asking them how. If they're real people (or are an LLM) then they'll be even more invested if you don't know how to do it and keep having "issues" getting it to work
A former coworker kept one of the “grandpa I’m in jail and need money” scammers on the phone for quite a while berating him about his bad behavior and how “I told you to stop drinking” in the most annoyed grandpa way
This is great, but wouldn't it be better to avoid giving advance warning to scammer groups with all this publicity? (Ethical scambaiters like Kitboga have also been quietly developing these models)
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it doesn't make the other uses for AI ok, but it's finally something.
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We are truly living in the future
If the scammer is also an AI, programmed not to give up, and Granny AI will never give in, .....
Will this create an AI "black hole" that sucks the entire internet into oblivion?
One can only hope....
AI scammer would probably need to be more convincing, but it's still not a heavyweight task.
a case of Brandolini's Law that works for the good of humanity!
AI Scammer: “Try looking on your side table like last time…”
AI Granny: “I can’t read my credit card number without my glasses… wait, this card is expired.”
AI Scammer sighs…
https://youtube.com/@kitbogashow?si=JShgwsnkQhbKx6C5
I wonder if the AI granny uses that tactic?