O2 has launched a campaign featuring a scambaiting chatbot to combat phone scammers, following data from the mobile network that revealed one in five people in the UK face fraud attempts weekly.

O2 has created human-like AI ‘Granny’ to answer calls in real time from fraudsters, with the intention of keeping them on the phone and away from customers for as long as possible. Daisy has been ...

At first glance, Daisy looks like your stereotypical grandmother: She loves knitting and talking about her family, has a cat named Fluffy, is technologically inept and has plenty of time to shoot the ...

O2, a mobile network, introduced Daisy, an AI-powered scambaiting granny, to combat phone scams in the UK while addressing public skepticism about AI. O2, a mobile network, introduced Daisy, an ...

AI-generated granny-bot Daisy's purpose is to trick phone scammers into believing they are speaking to a real person, wasting their time and keeping them away from actual victims. O2/YouTube ...

Despite more people waking up to online scams, cyber crooks aren’t giving up. In fact, the latest research suggests that 1 in 5 Brits experience a scam attempt every week. It's a worrying stat, and ...

O2 has unveiled its new, unique weapon in its fight against scammers: Daisy, an AI-powered assistant designed to keep fraudsters talking and waste their time. As part of Virgin Media O2’s “Swerve the ...

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 the ...

O2 has deployed a major new alert that all customers must look out for on their phones. The mobile network has started scanning phone numbers for potential scam calls using AI in a bid to protect ...

The artificial intelligence-powered tool can hold autonomous voice conversations with scammers to keep them on the phone and away from real people. O2 said that by tricking fraudsters into thinking ...

This entry is about a scambaiting AI granny named Daisy. It’s a story about how O2, one of the UK’s biggest mobile networks, transformed traditional marketing approaches to fraud protection and ...

The artificial intelligence-powered tool can hold autonomous voice conversations with scammers to keep them on the phone and away from real people. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep ...