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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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718 points ortusdux | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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watusername ◴[14 Nov 24 17:54 UTC] No.42138985[source]▶
If you use a VoIP service like Twilio and voip.ms, you can set up a very simple IVR menu that just asks unknown callers to press 1 to be connected to you. No AI involved.

For me, this has been surprisingly effective against robocalls. Obviously this isn’t going to work against scammers who call directly, but most of the spam calls I receive start with some pre-recorded message which isn’t going to pass the menu.

Edit: s/auto/pre

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1. morkalork ◴[14 Nov 24 18:06 UTC] No.42139150[source]▶
If they ever get clever enough to automate the menu selection, it would be funny to have an infinitely deep IVR sort of like the tar pits people build on websites to trap web crawlers.