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, translates it to text, finds an appropriate response based on a database of training data, and “speaks” that response — all within seconds. She was trained with
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