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California man creates AI chatbot to waste the time of telemarketers
- Software developer Roger Anderson has equipped his voice service with OpenAI's GPT-4 language model to engage in ridiculous conversations with telemarketing scammers.
- The AI-powered service, called Jolly Roger Telephone, uses various AI personalities, including Whitey Whitebeard, Salty Sally, and Whiskey Jack, to waste the scammers' time and eventually make them hang up out of exhaustion.
- The service is available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and customers can subscribe for $1.99 a month to connect their phone numbers to the AI personalities.
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People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers - Marginal REVOLUTION
Whitebeard has a bad habit of talking in circles. That is by design. Whitebeard is a digital contraption that only sounds human. He is the creation of Roger Anderson, a real-life 54-year-old in Monrovia, Calif., who employs chatbots and AI to frustrate and waste the time of telemarketers and scammers. “I’m talking about only your credit […]
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