UK mobile carrier O2 has created Daisy, an AI grandmother designed to waste the time of phone scammers by keeping them on the line as long as possible. Anyone can report a scam call or message by ...

Telecommunications firm O2 has created a “human-like AI granny” to answer scam calls with the aim of keeping fraudsters on the phone and away from O2 customers. The new member of the O2 fraud ...

SO FOLKS, THIS IS SOMETHING I JUST HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU. A BRITISH PHONE COMPANY HAS COME UP WITH AN AI GENERATED GRANNY TO WASTE SCAMMERS TIME KEEPING THEM ON THE PHONE SO THEY CAN’T GO AND TARGET ...

O2 now wants to remedy this with an artificial intelligence called Daisy. As the “head of fraud prevention”, it’s the job of this state-of-the-art AI granny to keep scammers away from real people for ...

Scambaiting is when the target of a phone or online scam knowingly tries to waste a scammer's time. Scambaiting can frustrate scammers and prevent them from targeting others. A UK company has now ...

Daisy may sound like a nice elderly lady, but she's actually an AI generated answering machine that turns the annoyance of robocalls back onto the caller. Daisy is employed by the fraud department at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'AI granny' Daisy is the latest weapon in the fight against phone scammers. Developed by British telecom company Virgin Media O2, ...

British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled a new creation, Daisy, a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence "granny" who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people. "Hello, ...

In brief: Human-like AIs have brought plenty of justifiable concerns about their ability to replace human workers, but a company is turning the tech against one of humanity's biggest scourges: phone ...

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