O2 deploys AI granny against scammers
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Brit mobile network's Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin
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Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

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“Daisy” is claimed to be indistinguishable from a real person, fooling scammers into thinking they’ve found perfect prey thanks to its ability to engage in “human-like” rambling chat, the biz claims.

lmao okay. This will work for maybe a week, and then they will smarten up

Lmao, you’ve never heard of Lennybot.

Scammers are stupider than you could ever imagine.

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I’m not sure. Sometimes I feel like talking to my almost 80 year old mother is sorta like talking to chatGPT.

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Lenny did this without AI over a decade ago.

The Grandma-Honeypot LOL

But I don’t believe in it. If I were the scammer, I would have maybe 2 or 3 of these lengthy talks with “her”, but afterwards I would recognize her and of course avoid her anytime.

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Until they change the name and voice and have a whole fleet of elderly AI chatbots.

That “fleet” would need many significant differences, like when you recognize different people, then many features are different. If your grandma talks to you with a different tone, you would still recognize your grandma easily.

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Nah, u gotta remember that they call from loud call centers with a shitty headset. Not that easy to pick up details in the voice

Ok that’s actually pretty funny

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Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn’t a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.

Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won’t put resources into but that should happen anyway

The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn’t enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn’t give a shit

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