O2 said the tool had been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time
        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          Years ago I concluded (wrongly or rightly) that most people are neutral, a small handfull are actually good people (willing to sacrifice their personal benefit for people they don’t know with no expectation of gaining from it, even in the form of social approval) and a small handful are assholes, but the assholes do such a disproportionate amount of damage that they end up having a massive impact on everybody else.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 days ago

              Well, that’s the second part of my theory but I didn’t went into it to avoid muddling the point I was making:

              • I think the “neutral” majority shift more to one side or the other depending on who dominates society and the main sources of culture and information in it.

              So in present “Greed is good” (very much a Sociopath slogan) times with mainstream media and a large section of the Culture production and distribution (in the form of TV, but also TV Show and Movie making) in the hands of extremelly wealthy people and when those we are told we should look up to are people like Musk (well, him specifically maybe not anymore) and Bezos, the “neutral” majority has shifted significantly towards the asshole side of things.

              The World would be a lot different if our “heroes” were Scientists and Environmentalists.

              • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    2·
    11 days ago

    Soon all the scammers will be replaced with AI, and we’ll just have AIs calling AIs all day long.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 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
      3·
      11 days 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. ^^

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    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!