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Finally, a real use for AI: making spam callers miserable.

Personally, I think it would be more effective for the government to deal with the proliferation of spam calls that have made most of us stop picking up our phones, but this is fun too:

Whitebeard stalls for time at the start of phone calls, using chatbot inanities about TV remotes and the like to give a couple of minutes for GPT-4, the OpenAI software, to process the telemarketer’s spiel and generate responses. Once ready, the AI text is fed into a voice cloner, which carries on the conversation.

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