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Called Daisy, or "dAIsy," the voice-based AI mimics a senior citizen to hold meandering conversations with phone scammers - In a video demonstrating Daisy, soundbites from real conversations show scammers becoming increasingly exasperated, being kept on the phone for upwards of 40 minutes, and holding out hope they will get a credit card number or bank details. The AI model that O2 made sounds very convincing—it’s doing all the processing in real-time
More about Daisy
Daisy is trained on real anonymized scammer data in partnership with well-known scambaiter Jim Browning of the YouTube channel Tech Support Scams - Daisy isn’t an AI feature you can add to your personal phone account, rather it is a phone number that O2 Virgin Media has managed to get added to a list of online ‘mugs lists’ used by scammers targeting UK consumers
So, people can't actually use daisy themselves the scammers phone daisy direct because 02, the company that made daisy, has added daisy, as a phone number, to a list that scammers use called "mugs list" - mug lists are basically lists loadsa scammers make then pass on, or sell, to other scammers etc....lists that are made up mainly on the darknet 02 managed to get daisy, which is basically a phone number, added to they lists as a potential "mark"
Also worth noting
No doubt "daisy" will have loadsa numbers because once scammers figure out daisy, and the number they have for her, is just wasting their time that number will get removed from future "mug lists" passed/sold on
02 being an actual mobile phone company can give daisy an unlimited supply of phone numbers and no doubt not all they numbers will use "daisy" as a name - mug lists have not only peoples phone numbers, they could have people's addresses, and other info linked to that phone number - 02 will need to change all that creating a fake persona for daisy
Anyhooooo
just thought I'd add to this cause some were thinking people could actually use daisy themselves
Jim Browning
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/113158527398148123
Short thread about Jim