AI-generated UK grandmother named โDaisyโ is [making] scammersโ jobs a bit more tedious…. Using ChatGPT-like large language models, Daisy will ramble on about her passion for knitting and tell long-winded, fabricated stories about family members [to keep] scammers on the line. In theory, every minute spent frustratingly chatting with Daisy about its made-up family or daily chores is one less minute a scammer could be targeting a real person.
While Daisy is tasked with stopping fraud, scammers are using similar AI tools to launch [various] new attacks. So-called AI โvoice clonesโ which use snippets of audio to mimic a personโs voice, have been used in recent years to commit bank and wire fraud. In several extreme examples, scammers have even used AI to trick people into believing their loved ones had been kidnapped or held hostage. The victims … then pay the scammers a fake ransom. Scams like these are becoming more common….ย Tools like Daisy could theoretically help stem that tide by sending other AI scam bots down winding rabbit holes.
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