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I welcome the spam calls from our asterisk overlords.
by johnebgd 9mo ago
I welcome the spam calls from our asterisk overlords.
- VladVladikoff 9mo agoI’m honestly surprised it hasn’t been more prevalent yet. I still get call centre type spam calls where you can hear all the background noise of the rest of the call centre.
- userbinator 9mo agoIs the background noise real, or is it also AI-generated to make you think that it's a human?
- tartoran 9mo agoThe background noise is a recording for sure, no AI needed, just a background noise audiofile in a loop would do.
- VladVladikoff 9mo agoWhy though? It adds nothing positive, it only makes me sure it is a scam call.
- the_af 9mo agoI assume it's to make it seem like an actual call center rather than a scam. I recently got two phone scam attempts (credit card related) that sounded exactly like this.
- ldenoue 9mo agoI built a voice AI stack and background noise can be really helpful to a restaurant AI for example. Italian background music or cafe background is part of the brand. It’s not meant to make the caller believe this is not a bot but only to make the AI call on brand.
- grim_io 9mo agoYou can call it what ever you like, but to me this is deceptive. Where is the difference between this and Indian support staff pretending to be in your vicinity by telling you about the local weather? Your version is arguably even worse because it can plausibly fool people more competently.
- ldenoue 9mo agoIt doesn't have to be. You can configure your bot to great the user. E.g. "Aleksandra is not available at the moment, but I'm her AI assistant to help you book a table. How may I help you?" So you're telling the caller that it is an AI, and yet you can have a pleasant background audio experience.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoyou actually answer unknown callers?
- the_af 9mo agoYes. Sometimes it's a legit call. Not often, though. Example of legit calls: the pizza delivery guy decided to call my phone instead of ringing the bell, for whatever reason.
- mcny 9mo agoI worked door dash for a couple of days and there were multiple people who wrote in all caps to not ring the door bell. Why? I have no idea.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoProbably because it make their dogs go nuts.
- quesera 9mo agoSleeping children or shift workers, too.
- Loughla 9mo agoYes. I own a business.
- mcny 9mo agoAlso, it only takes one legitimate collect call from a jail from a loved one and now I'm all in favor of reform in our jail system. No, it does not cost over thirty dollars to allow someone accused to call their loved ones. We pay taxes. I want my government to use the taxes and provide these calls for free.
- haroldp 9mo agoI was more thinking I could add it to my Asterisk server to honey-pot the spam callers into an infinite time waster cycle.