I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up entire scam call centers. So entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpo_o7dR8c

I Built a Bot Army that Scams Scammers

YouTube

@briankrebs Ah, you have to have a Youtube account to see this.

I have de-Googled, so 🤷

@tasket That sounds complicated. I'd love to hear about your harrowing experience.

@briankrebs I never really "Borged-up" to begin with. I deleted my Google accounts and the harrowing parts are:

  • Youtube videos don't play 3/4 of the time, as of about 6 weeks ago.

  • Couldn't get the T-Mobile compat. voicemail app to work from the Aurora store. I can see when voicemail is waiting, but I have to dial-in to hear it.

  • Banks sometimes give the impression you must use their app. In my experience, its a ruse and the idea you can't do banking on a PC is absurd.

I use exactly one Play-dependent app via Aurora. It works fine without a Google login. Everything else comes from Fdroid. SMS also works fine, unfortunately.