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  • AI granny wastes spam caller time

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 12:41:33 2024
    From the «this is tech I can get behind» department:
    Title: O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time
    Author: Dan Robinson
    Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:36:09 +0000
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/o2_ai_granny/

    Brit mobile network's Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin

    Watch out, scammers. O2 has created a new weapon in the fight against fraud: an AI granny that will keep you talking until you get bored and give up.…

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 08:04:43 2024
    On 15 Nov 2024 12:41:33 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    Title: O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

    Cellphones I've owned could be setup so phone would ring for selected
    numbers. I do get a few VMs/Texts from scammers.

    Why the cell carriers, etc., have not explained a how-to is puzzling.
    I figured it out without instructions.

    On another note in Gmail, I've seen some impressive email sent that
    gives the impression I've ordered something, but they all want a call
    back to cancel. Why people respond is puzzling too.

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