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 ...

Mobile operator O2 has developed an AI-powered tool that mimics the voice of an elderly grandmother, designed to keep phone scammers engaged and away from the general public. The telecoms giant said ...

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 ...

O2 said that by tricking fraudsters into thinking they were scamming a real person, Daisy has prevented them from targeting real victims (PA) Mobile operator O2 has created an AI-powered tool that ...

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.

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 ...

UK-based mobile operator Virgin Media O2 has created an AI-generated "scambaiter" tool to stall scammers. The AI tool, called Daisy, mimics the voice of an elderly woman and performs one simple task: ...

AN AI granny is on a scam-busting mission to get revenge on fraudulent callers. Daisy, created by O2, is a talking bot that picks up dodgy calls and wastes scammers’ time with human-like rambling. 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 ...

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