‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people.
Another call has a scammer again trying to take control of her computer, but Daisy delays by talking about how she usually just uses it for knitting patterns and recipes for scones.
Like many people, “Daisy” is beset with countless calls from fraudsters, who often try to take control of her computer after claiming she has been hacked.
The company worked with Jim Browning, a “scam baiter” who posts videos of himself wasting the time of criminals, to plant phone numbers on websites where they were likely to be found by fraudsters hoping to scam people.
O2 rolled out “AI granny” Daisy for a short period to show what could be done with artificial intelligence to counter the scourge of scammers who have become so ubiquitous.
