Meet the AI chatbot that fights back against telemarketers – NewsNation Now

NewsNation

(Getty Images)
(NewsNation) — A California man is fighting fire with fire, deploying a ChatGPT-powered bot to get back at telemarketing scammers by keeping them on meaningless calls for up to half-an-hour.
Roger Anderson created Jolly Roger, a telephone service that uses AI and voice modulation software to create and read scripts that waste telemarketers’ time, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The service offers fictional characters like Salty Sally, a busy mom with a distracting daughter, and Whitey Whitebeard, a bumbling senior citizen, along with the original Jolly Roger.
The Wall Street Journal detailed an encounter between a telemarketer named Kevin and Anderson’s chatbot, Jolly Roger.
“Thank you for calling card services,” Kevin said at the beginning of the interaction. “How are you doing today?”
“Huh,” the chatbot replied.
“What do you think, how much owed on your credit cards, collectively,” Kevin asked.
“I’ve been having trouble with my television remote,” Jolly Roger replied. “Can you help me figure out how to change the channel to watch my favorite show?”
“I’m talking about only your credit cards,” Kevin responded.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t catch your name,” the chatbot countered. “What’s your name, buddy?”
This reportedly went on for a while.
Jolly Roger uses Open AI’s ChatGPT to analyze what the caller is talking about, and then selects pre-written messages relevant to the subject, according to Techspot. The voices sound natural but the phrases can be repetitive and off-topic, often causing the scammer on the other end to get frustrated after being strung along for several minutes.
The service launched seven years ago but introduced its ChatGPT capabilities over the past few months. Telemarketers have been kept on the phone for as long as 30 minutes, Anderson told Insider.
Jolly Roger is available for just $1.99 a month. After gaining access, users can view, listen to and share the recorded calls through the accompanying apps.
© 1998 – 2023 Nexstar Media Group Inc. | All Rights Reserved.
If you want to buy a home, it’s tempting to be in denial that this is happening.
Over the weekend, staff at the Oklahoma Humane Society found a dog in a precarious position.
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Rain is again affecting play at Wimbledon on Day 3 of the grass-court tournament. Intermittent showers Wednesday forced matches on the outside courts to be suspended twice, while play in the main stadiums was also stopped for a short time because of the weather. Only Centre Court and No. 1 Court […]
Kyron Horman was excited to show off his science project before the seven-year-old disappeared from his school.
The unemployment rate among military spouses exceeds the national unemployment rate by more than fivefold.
Police across the nation try to draw up strategies to prevent the violent summer outbreak.
For nearly a week, Lucky was nowhere to be found. Then, Lucky lived up to his name.
While some parents offer financial support because they want to, others feel obligated even when it’s financially inconvenient.

source

Jesse
https://playwithchatgtp.com