O2, the mobile operator arm of Brit telecoms giant Virgin Media (VMO2), says it has built the human-like AI to answer calls from fraudsters in real time, keeping them busy on the phone and wasting ...

Mobile operator O2 has created an AI-powered tool that sounds like an elderly grandmother, keeping phone scammers on calls and away from the general public. The telecoms giant said it had created ...

"While they're busy talking to me, they can't be scamming you. And let's face it, dear, I've got all the time in the world," she says. O2, the company behind the scam-baiting granny, said the AI ...

AI Scambaiters: O2 creates AI Granny to waste scammers’ time by O2 on YouTube. Meet Daisy – an AI-generated grandma created by British phone company Virgin Media O2 as the ultimate scam buster.

British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled an “AI granny” called Daisy who is helping combat fraud by wasting scammers’ time with long phone calls.

Telecommunications firm O2 has created a “human-like AI granny” to answer scam calls with the aim of keeping fraudsters on the phone and away from O2 customers. The new member of the O2 fraud ...

To make life difficult for phone scammers, the British telecommunications company O2 is now relying on Daisy, an AI-generated grandmother. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

O2 added the AI’s number to “easy target” lists that scammers would have access to. O2 could always keep things interesting by changing the number or adding multiple lines.

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O2 users will have suspected scam and nuisance calls flagged to them before they pick up the phone via a new AI-powered tool, the mobile operator has said.

O2 isn’t the first UK network to use adaptive AI to tackle scam calls, but it is the first to offer the feature for free. In July, EE launched Scam Guard, a subscription service which gave users ...

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