According to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, consumers around the world they lost more than a billion euros in online scams last year. Much of this corresponds to fraudulent calls made from different countries that, simulating a very tempting offer or a problem with a bank account or device, take the opportunity to obtain the victim’s data and steal everything they can.
Despite awareness campaigns and the persecution of these crimes, there are more and more scammers and their strategies are more creative. But, fortunately, creativity is also on the side of the “good guys”: A company has created Daisy, a sweet granny developed with AI who not only deceives scammersis also capable of keeping them online for an hour.
The idea has come from the British telephone operator O2 and has presented Daisy as its “Head of relations with scammers”. The mission of this next-generation artificial intelligence granny is talk to scammers and waste as much time as possible with incoherent conversations similar to those of humans to keep them away from real people.
Created using a range of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology and trained with the help of one of YouTube’s most well-known scam hunters, Jim Browning, Daisy is a granny from Realistic artificial intelligence completely indistinguishable from a real person. Able to interact with scammers in real time without any intervention from their creators. The O2 operator has put her to work 24 hours a day answering suspicious calls.
Daisy combines several artificial intelligence models that work together to listen and respond to scam calls instantly and is so realistic that it has managed to keep numerous scammers on calls for 40 minutes straight.
The idea arose after a survey revealed that 71% of Britons would like to take revenge on scammers who have tried to deceive them or their loved ones. However, not wanting to waste their own time turned out to be the main reason for not doing it.
Daisy (official name IA Scambaiter) tells scammers made-up stories about her family, talks at length about her passion for knitting, and provides false personal information, including fabricated bank details. By tricking criminals into thinking they are scamming a real person and taking advantage of scammers’ prejudices about older people, Daisy prevents them from targeting real victims and, more importantly, exposes common tactics used by scammers. used so that customers can better protect themselves.
Daisy combines several AI models that work together to listen to the caller first and transcribe their voice into text. Appropriate responses are then generated through a large custom language model with a character “personality” layer, and then sent back through a custom AI text-to-speech model to generate a response. voice. This takes place in real time, allowing the tool to have a human-like conversation with the caller.