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ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by Yenrabbit »

mwint wrote: post #20

A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me. Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it. Steps: (1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs ol…

Good to know! I've recently started getting a ton a spam calls (8-10/day) and was assuming the situation was hopeless. Will give your method a go :)

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by Geezus_42 »

breckenedge wrote: post #3

Blog article with 100% less spam https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...

I already loved Jolly Rodger Telephone service. I hope this is even more hilarious.

For those who don't know $12 spam call filtering that can actually talk to the telemarketers, wasting their time, and send you a recording of the call. I've had some good ones.

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by Geezus_42 »

Geezus_42 wrote: post #32
breckenedge wrote: post #3

Blog article with 100% less spam https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...

I already loved Jolly Rodger Telephone service. I hope this is even more hilarious. For those who don't know $12 spam call filtering that can actually talk to the telemarketers, wasting their time, and send you a recording of the call. I've had some good ones.

$12/yr

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Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by ben_w »

boppo1 wrote: post #29
mwint wrote: post #20

A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me. Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it. Steps: (1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs ol…

I'll do you one better: When they call, sincerely start asking them questions about the identity of their business: location, name, ownership, etc. Usually they'll hang up. Call them back over and over with these questions. Then after a few calls, explain that you know how to use "VOIP APIs" and that you will be happy to spend $100 to DOS attack their call center. That would be illegal, but typically they're in no po…

You can shortcut all the effort with eight words, in my experience:

"Would you like to join a trade union?"

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

ilaksh wrote: post #12
mpetrovich wrote: post #9

The demos on the Jolly Roger site are hilarious. The bot sounds so realistic, and the bot even had the audacity to ask the scammer, “Are you a real person?!” “Hold on, there’s a bee on my arm”

It seems to be just repeating some prerecorded script. Only using ChatGPT to detect when to say "ok" or "yes".

Yeah, which I assume is the “superprompt” they mentioned in the article on their website.[0]

Honestly, if you combined it with a sufficiently powerful GPU, Whisper (maybe even FasterWhisper or WhisperX due to increased speeds), and fed those into the prompts it would probably work even better and be more realistic.

[0] - https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by PreDefined »

mwint wrote: post #20

A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me. Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it. Steps: (1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs ol…

Best to avoid hitting any numbers. It's a good way to accidentally "agree" to charges billed to your phone number.

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

Geezus_42 wrote: post #32
breckenedge wrote: post #3

Blog article with 100% less spam https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...

I already loved Jolly Rodger Telephone service. I hope this is even more hilarious. For those who don't know $12 spam call filtering that can actually talk to the telemarketers, wasting their time, and send you a recording of the call. I've had some good ones.

You know I thought it was gonna be $12/mo, but $12/yr? Now that’s an interesting proposal.

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

Krasnol wrote: post #21
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #7

I suppose we'll soon see a good % of phone network usage being spent on AI callers talking to AI filters/receptionists. Like all the Internet packets dedicated to captchas and blocking email spam, bot traffic, etc, phone systems will evolve to better filter and handle automated vs. human calls as a tsunami of AI callers approaches. It's going to be a tough battle because it's really difficult to discern from voice tr…

I'm always quite surprised to hear that. We had quite a bad phase here in Germany before mobile phones became popular, but I haven't got one of those scam calls on my landline for years now. There isn't even much spam SMS, but maybe it's because I don't give away my number to everybody.

It makes sense, landlines are in the minority and are presumably unprofitable now. I guess we’ve reached the point to where even the majority of the elderly have cellphones rather than landlines.

Re: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers

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Post by d33 »

Grimburger wrote: post #6
breckenedge wrote: post #3

Blog article with 100% less spam https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...

> Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. Guess I'll read the article.

As always, Web Archive comes to rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701142059/https://jollyroge...
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