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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time

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AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time

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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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O2 said the tool had been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time
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    Was wondering how long it would take to roll something like this out. Bout time.

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      It already existed, check out Lenny. Glad there are more options now though so scammers will be slower to catch on.

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      Been around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com

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        Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.

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          The tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.

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            AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.

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        It’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.

        Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉

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