Cases of online fraud have increased rapidly in the last few years. Cyber criminals are defrauding people in new ways. Tech companies around the world are working to stop the rapidly increasing online scams. Recently, telecom regulator TRAI has tightened the rules to curb fake calls and messages from telecom operators. Airtel and BSNL have also launched a new system to stop fake calls at the network level using AI.
talks like humans
To give a taste to scammers, O2, a UK telecom company, has launched AI Grandma, who can talk like humans. This AI grandmother named Daisy can talk with scammers for a long time and tell them different stories. This AI grandmother of the telecom company will pick up the phone of the scammers and tell them false and imaginary stories about her family. The main job of this AI granny is to waste the time of scammers and save people from fraud.
According to the report, this AI granny Daisy is part of the “Swerve the Scammers” campaign of O2 Telecom Company. Telecom operators have prepared this to curb fake calls. AI Grandma is not like a common chatbot, but it has more intelligence than them. Like humans, it first listens, then thinks and understands. After this she responds to the call. Because of this type of response given by AI, scammers feel that they are talking to a human being.
Will waste scammers' time
To create this AI Grandma, O2 took help from Jim Browning, a famous fraudster on YouTube, who taught Daisy several tricks to deal with fraudsters. According to a research report, 7 out of 10 people in Britain want to take revenge from scammers. They also do not want to waste their time dealing with fake calls and fraudsters. This AI grandmother is going to help people a lot in this matter.
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