‘I’ve Got All the Time in the World’: AI Grandma Thwarts Scammers By Answering Their Calls

British phone company Virgin Media O2 has a new way to trick scammers at their own game: Have an AI-generated grandmother named Daisy answer the phone.

A conversation with Daisy means hearing her talk at length about her passion for knitting or her grandchildren. With no prompting, Daisy can adapt to conversations and even provide fake personal information if scammers request it, per NPR.

Daisy may sound like a grandmother, but she’s actually an AI large language model that takes in a fraudster’s voice,

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