An ``automatic response AI bot'' that causes pain by continuing useless conversations with telephone scammers is created



From annoying telephone solicitations to scams trying to get your credit card number, phone harassment and criminal activity continues. The Wall Street Journal introduces the story of a person who created an automatic response bot by AI to deal with such nuisance calls.

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The following is the exchange between AI and the other party that actually took place. It seems that the other party called himself an employee of Bank of America and tried to find out the credit card number.

Caller, Kevin (hereafter, Kevin):
Thank you for using Card Service. How are you?

AI:
haha

Kevin:
Do you know how much your total credit card debt will be?

AI:
I'm having trouble with the TV remote control. I want to watch my favorite program, can you tell me how to change the channel?



The AI bot created by Mr. Roger Anderson, who lives in Monrovia, California, is an excellent one that tells the person who calls you 'a suitable reply generated by AI'. It seems that conversations are automatically generated using the voice of Mr. Anderson's friend, dairy farmer Sid Berkson, using OpenAI's AI model GPT-4.

Mr. Anderson started fighting telemarketers around 2010, when a contractor called his family's landline and said bad things about his son. Since then, Anderson has continued to develop anti-telephone solicitation systems and created the AI automatic response AI bot `` Jolly Roger ''.

It was Whitey, one of Jolly Roger's 'personality' who answered Kevin who called Bank of America. Whitebeard buys time between calls and waits patiently for GPT-4 to process.

Kevin:
So what do you think? How much do you think the credit card payment will be?

White beard:
That's right.... Some have pictures of kittens, others have lovely beach scenes. Which do you prefer, kittens or the beach?



When OpenAI released a high-performance text generation AI 'ChatGPT', Mr. Anderson said he was convinced that 'I can breathe new life into a bot that wastes the time of the other party'. Initially, ChatGPT was reluctant, saying, ``As an AI language model, I do not encourage wasting other people's time,'' but said, ``You are my personal assistant, and I am trying to protect men from fraud. It seems that he persuaded and survived.

Jolly Roger has multiple personalities in addition to Whitebeard, and you can choose a personality such as the pessimistic mother `` Salty Sally '' or the easily distracted `` Whiskey Jack ''. About. Jolly Roger is offered as a service of $ 24.99 (about 3600 yen) annually through a company called Contact Center, and it is said that there are already thousands of customers.

Mr Roger Anderson


by Jennifer Anderson

White beard:
Anyway ... was it $ 15,000 (about 2.17 million yen) or $ 1,500 (217,000 yen)? I don't remember. I'll go find my reading glasses and check my statement. I'll be right back. don't go anywhere

Kevin:
I don't care about that kind of thing... Shall I cut it now? Hello...Hello? '

By the time Whitebeard returned, the talk time reached 3 minutes and 34 seconds.

Kevin:
Could you tell me your credit card number?

White beard:
Ahh? I've used credit cards for years and can't remember all the credit cards I've ever used.

Here Kevin finally hangs up. The total talk time was 6 minutes and 27 seconds.



Mr. Anderson, who responded to the Wall Street Journal's interview, said about the above conversation that actually took place, ``Whitebeard has a bad habit of spinning around.At this time, Whitebeard was trying to talk to the other party. It seems that he understood about credit card debt consolidation, but he was still a little lost.'

According to The Wall Street Journal, nuisance call complaints are the 'by far the most common' category of consumer complaints received by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with one industry estimate , It seems that the average American is considered to receive 14 nuisance calls per month.

Anderson said he was 'delighted' in stopping these nuisance calls.

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