On: Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

[ronsor]

> Then, once the spammers have blacklisted the Daisy numbers, cycle those spam-free numbers to their customers and start a new batch of Daisy numbers.

This is actually genius. The spammers will have blacklisted all of their targets eventually.

[lhamil64 → ronsor]

Until they catch on and un-blacklist the numbers periodically.

[Szpadel → lhamil64]

we all know the end game: ai scammer talking to ai granny

[flir → Szpadel]

As long as the scammer's paying to route the call, I'm ok with this. And the telcos' fitness function for their pool of robogrannies should be time-spent-on-call. Making it uneconomic is the way to kill it.

[etlabaume → Szpadel]

Half of the spam calls I get today are AI. And I get more or less one spam call a day.

[dools → Szpadel]

AI Guilfoyle and AI Dinesh

[red-iron-pine → Szpadel]

dead internet theory, telco edition.

presumably someone is still getting charged for calls and AI -- and therefore someone is making money -- in this situation though, non?