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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A similar tactic is used by some phone service providers.

It will dump calls to an AI that pretends to be an elderly person. Since an older person is like red meat to a phone scammer, they will wait a long time for the "victim" to get ready.

Meanwhile the bot's script is to waste time. Spend a few minutes "looking for my glasses", some "oh gosh I think I turned the phone down, where's that button?", "HUH, what did you say your name was?". And asking the scammer to repeat themselves, etc.

It makes those kinds of calls less profitable for scammers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

could we get this bot for our mails and phones?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't be surprised to find such a project running on local AI, especially for text replies.