A screenshot of the AI-generated"Daisy" — a new program launched by British phone company O2 to combat phone scams.
"Hello, scammers. I'm your worst nightmare," Daisy says by way of introduction to would-be ne'er-do-wells.contestant and scam victim Amy Hart, scammers are heard feeling much of the same frustrations they put their victims through as Daisy breezily yammers on about her kitten, Fluffy, and her inability to follow the scammers' instructions."I think your profession is bothering people, right?" one defeated scammer tells Daisy after being given the runaround.
O2, the company behind the scam-baiting granny, said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time. Daisy was trained with the help of YouTuber and software engineerAdvertisementIn order to bait scammers into time-wasting calls, the company utilized the practice of"number seeding," which put the AI granny's number on lists used by scammers to find their victims.