I like the idea of wasting telemarketing company resources, but we have to remember the people calling us are actual human being forced into shitty jobs where they suffer abusive management thanks to capitalism. So “torturing telemarketers” sounds bad to me, as does being rude to them or leaving them to talk into silence.

I usually pick up the phone, announce that I will hang up in 20 seconds, wish them a good day and then block the number.

I used to get 1-2 call per day, now it’s more around 1 every 2 or 3 weeks.

This is a really cool use of GPT, I love it! Anything that makes telemarketers and scammers waste their time and raises their costs/lowers their profitability is a good thing, in my view.

Very good use of AI.

I’ve been using https://jollyrogertelephone.com/ to do this for the past few years and it does seem to cut down on the overall # of spam calls I get. And even if that’s just placebo effect, I still get dozens of funny recordings of telemarketers getting run around to laugh at.

Edit: it looks like they have started using AI recently, which can only make it better.

archive.is is having SSL problems right now, anyone have an alternative link?

Saving this one. That’s funny, and possibly useful

"GPT-4 does a pretty good job of saying dumb things that are somewhat funny” lmao anyway, this kind of tech is exactly what we need. If the scammer talks to a bot, then it’s not talking to someones susceptible granny.

I use RoboKiller which I think is great. It doesn’t use AI but it does waste people’s time.

I love this. Wasting a scammer’s time keeps them from scamming other people while they talk to you. It’s doing a public good.