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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by CarpaDorada »

e-khadem wrote: post #174
ddtaylor wrote: post #66

I love that they are weaponizing the perceived kindness of senior citizens in this way. Many of the victims of scams are some of the nicest people ever that were taken advantage of in some capacity - usually while trying to help someone. It's the digital age equivalent of staging a broken down cart and then robbing some old folks. I think most of us hate the idea of the "solution" being to not go near anyone with a b…

> I would rather a world where scammers odds at making a living at this are so poor they won't bother Then what's stopping the scammers from finding another "evil" job that makes money? You have to remember that humans tend to not enjoy accomplishing thievery and the scammers most often do this out of necessity. Of course there are big call center operators who truly are terrible people, but this conclusion is true f…

The big call center operators usually have political backing too.

Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by lotsofpulp »

bsdice wrote: post #135

The scam and spam call problem is really bad in Germany to this day. And has been for 10 years. A couple years ago I would sit at my desk thinking about a really hard problem in silence. The phone rings. Spam call. Every 30-180 minutes another one. If you now think turn the phone off, well not that easy as CEO of a business when people expect you to be reachable. It creamed my corn so much that I recorded my own voic…

> It creamed my corn so much

Come again?

Edit: I guess it is in urban dictionary, but my first thought was the last definition listed:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creams%20my%...

Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by dmurray »

Lio wrote: post #157
dmurray wrote: post #13

This is cool when some independent hacker / artist does it as "Lemmy". When a big telecom does it, the second thing they do with it is to fuck up the spam detection so bad that every third phone call I make gets answered by "Daisy". And just think about it - why would a telecom need this tech? They can already drop the spam calls and stop routing calls from the bad actor telecoms who enable the spammers. They don't d…

I think you mean Lenny[1] not Lemmy. Although I think it would be incredibly funny to have scammers talking to the voice of Lemmy[2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy

My mistake, but I completely stand over my words: it's cool if someone sends scammers to talk to the disembodied voice of Lemmy Kilmister, not cool if Vodafone or O2 license his likeness to do the same thing.

Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by stevenpetryk »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #182
bsdice wrote: post #135

The scam and spam call problem is really bad in Germany to this day. And has been for 10 years. A couple years ago I would sit at my desk thinking about a really hard problem in silence. The phone rings. Spam call. Every 30-180 minutes another one. If you now think turn the phone off, well not that easy as CEO of a business when people expect you to be reachable. It creamed my corn so much that I recorded my own voic…

> It creamed my corn so much Come again? Edit: I guess it is in urban dictionary, but my first thought was the last definition listed: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creams%20my%...

Cream my corn again?

Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by Timwi »

arresin wrote: post #24
barbazoo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's ignore the real problem and distract the plebs by building some cute AI tool instead.

Would it help to know that > Influencer and reality TV star, Amy Hart, has worked with Daisy to produce a shocking video to show how she’s taking on phoney fraudsters

If that video really existed and was as shocking as they imply, they would have linked to it.

Re: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Post by carlosjobim »

axus wrote: post #25
waiwai933 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not intercepting calls over their network from suspected bad actors; rather, they've created some phone numbers that always go to Daisy - see https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/11/virgin-media-o...

Ah! So step 2 is wait for the spammers to automate blacklisting of Daisy phone numbers, and only then start rolling out a (paid) Daisy option to customers. Not connecting calls doesn't waste spammer money, but maybe Daisy does. If the big telco can find 10 righteous callers from a a bad actor telecom, they should keep routing the calls.

> If the big telco can find 10 righteous callers from a a bad actor telecom, they should keep routing the calls.

Why?

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