After a telemarketer cursed his son nearly a decade ago, Roger Anderson tried to cause as much trouble as possible to robocallers, phone scammers and scammers.
His solution is to create an artificial intelligence call avoidance system that connects incoming spam calls with a ChatGPT-powered personality and continues the conversation in circles while the scammers try to extract financial information from the chatbot. was to do
“This is a really incredibly stupid idea,” Anderson, who founded the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, told Fox News. “But in a way, I think it’s the only way to fight unsolicited calls, because we haven’t found a way to stop all these unwanted calls.”
Unwanted robocalls and robotexts are the FCC’s top complaints. (Neil Godwin/Future via Getty Images)
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“These robots are now able to tailor their conversations to the context of the call thanks to ChatGPT,” says Anderson. “So if the scammers are talking about debt consolidation, the robot will talk about how much debt they are in and tease a little bit.”
“If scammers want to talk about Medicare fraud, robots will talk about Medicare and keep it going,” he continued.
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Unwanted robocalls are the top complaint the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) receives from Americans. 4 billion robocalls monthlyagency reported in August. According to a study last year, nearly $40 billion was lost to phone fraud in the US between May 2021 and May 2022. Caller ID Company Truecaller.
“Right now, we’re all suffering from a tremendous amount of abuse by telemarketers and scammers within our networks,” Anderson told Fox News. “If you say to the post office, ‘Stop sending spam, stop sending junk to my house,’ they might have a hard time because they won’t open the envelope and read it. It’s something like that.” In communications. ”
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More than 28 billion robocalls have been made nationwide so far this year, according to the company. YouMail Robocall Index. A quarter of them were scams.
Using auto-dialing and voice technology, one phone fraud operator can make hundreds of calls every minute to locate victims, Anderson said. The AI-generated voice of an amnesiac old man (he named Whitey Whitebeard) was intentionally designed to play the role of a victim of temptation to sabotage the scammer’s operations.
The AI can also be programmed to be Salty Sally, a distracted mother, or Whiskey Jack, a man busy watching the big game.
“Now ChatGPT is taking over that conversation and helping our telemarketers stay on the phone for as long as possible,” said Anderson. The Jolly Roger phone uses the same AI tools that Robocallers use, but “instead, it intercepts the call, puts it on the call, and prevents it from calling anyone else. .”
ChatGPT artificial intelligence software generates human-like conversations and powers Anderson’s Whitey Whitebeard and other AI personalities. (Getty Images)
Robocall fraud prevention Anderson told Fox News that it would not only restore people’s confidence in picking up the phone, but it would also save Americans money.
Reducing fraud and harassment through illegal robocalls could save Americans more than $13.5 billion annually. FCC estimated in 2021.
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”There was a time when your phone rang and you wanted to pick it up and talk,” Anderson told Fox News, “and now that doesn’t happen anymore.”
He said he hopes new AI tools “give everyone a sense of revenge and protection.”
To read the full interview with Anderson, click here.
Ramiro Vargas contributed the accompanying video.
