{"id":199794,"date":"2024-11-20T03:25:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/introducing-daisy-the-ai-granny-outwitting-scammers"},"modified":"2024-11-20T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:25:32","slug":"introducing-daisy-the-ai-granny-outwitting-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/introducing-daisy-the-ai-granny-outwitting-scammers","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Daisy, The \u2018AI Granny\u2019 Outwitting Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amid heated debates about the potential pitfills of artificial intelligence<\/a>, the technology has finally taken a form we can probably all get behind \u2014 an \u201cAI granny\u201d created expressly to waste scammers\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

British telecom company Virgin Media O2 on Thursday introduced Daisy, a custom-made human-like chabot that answers calls in real time, keeping fraudsters on the phone as long as possible in a bid to annoy and frustrate them, just as they do to consumers worldwide. Daisy (that\u2019s \u201cdAIsy\u201d) automates the practice of \u201cscambaiting,\u201d which involves people posing as potential victims to squander scammers\u2019 time and resources, publicly expose their wily ways, gather information useful to law enforcement and even confuse the con artists\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n

Daisy, newly dubbed O2\u2019s \u201chead of scammer relations,\u201d impersonates an older adult, making her part of a demographic that\u2019s particularly vulnerable to scams<\/a>. Unlike human scambaiters who need to sleep and shower once in a while, Daisy can spend all day and night on the phone with swindlers. \u201cWhile they\u2019re busy talking to me they can\u2019t be scamming you, and let\u2019s face it, dear, I\u2019ve got all the time in the world,\u201d Daisy says in the introductory video from O2 embedded below. The video personifies her as a photorealistic AI-generated woman with gray hair, glasses and pearls talking on a pink landline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid heated debates about the potential pitfills of artificial intelligence, the technology has finally taken a form we can probably all get behind \u2014 an \u201cAI granny\u201d created expressly to waste scammers\u2019 time. British telecom company Virgin Media O2 on Thursday introduced Daisy, a custom-made human-like chabot that answers calls in real time, keeping fraudsters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}