Each week there appears to be one other cynical implementation of AI that devalues the human expertise so it’s with a breath of recent air that we report on a bed room enterprise that makes use of GPT-4 expertise to frustrate telemarketers.
“Combat again towards annoying telemarketers and evil scammers!” the Jolly Roger Phone Firm rails on its web site. “Our robots speak to telemarketers so people do not must!”
Whereas nobody can put a worth on slamming the telephone down on a name middle employee, some amongst us may get a perverse pleasure out of listening to them squirm beneath the non sequiturs of AI. And it appears to be working for Jolly Roger, which has 1000’s of shoppers subscribed for $23.80 a 12 months.
The corporate has quite a few bots at its disposal all with distinctive voices and quirks that makes them completely infuriating to talk to from the unique Jolly Roger, based mostly on the voice of Californian founder Roger Anderson, to distracted mom Salty Sally, who retains wanting to speak a few expertise present she received, to feisty senior citizen Whitey Whitebeard and extra. Samples of toe-curling conversations are throughout Jolly Roger’s web site.
“Oh jeez, grasp on, there is a bee on me, grasp on,” Jolly Roger tells one scammer. “There is a bee on my arm. OK, you realize what? You retain speaking, I am not gonna speak, although. You retain speaking, say that half once more, and I am simply gonna keep quiet due to the bee.”
Sprinkle in gratuitous salvos of “Suuuure” and “Mhm” and “Sorry, I used to be having bother concentrating since you’re EXACTLY like any person I went to highschool with so, sorry, say that half once more.” 5 minutes later you may have a chilly caller pulling their hair out and hanging up.
This is Salty Sally in motion:
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Clients present the telephone numbers they wish to shield and the subscription prompts instantly. Customers login to the web site the place they’ll arrange whichever bot or bots they wish to make use of. Then, when a telemarketer calls, the consumer is ready to merge the decision with a specified or random bot. The client can then take heed to the fruits of their labor in Jolly Roger’s “Pirate Porthole.”
YouTubers like Kitboga have made a reputation for themselves by infuriating and hacking computer-based scammers in actual time whereas they attempt to swindle him over the phone, however now common folks can do related with out having to raise a finger.
At a time when AI grifters try to persuade the gullible to flood the e book market with ChatGPT-generated joke books, it’s heartening to see one thing associated that’s each humorous and really efficient. ®
