[ensignavenger]

Then, once the spammers have blacklisted the Daisy numbers, cycle those spam-free numbers to their customers and start a new batch of Daisy numbers. This way, there is a constant flow of spammer free numbers being cycled into the pool. Of course, everyone and their dog wants your phone number, so you will have to be careful who you give it to if you want it to stay spam-free.

[ronsor]

> Then, once the spammers have blacklisted the Daisy numbers, cycle those spam-free numbers to their customers and start a new batch of Daisy numbers.

This is actually genius. The spammers will have blacklisted all of their targets eventually.

[lhamil64]

Until they catch on and un-blacklist the numbers periodically.

[Szpadel]

we all know the end game: ai scammer talking to ai granny

[flir]

As long as the scammer's paying to route the call, I'm ok with this. And the telcos' fitness function for their pool of robogrannies should be time-spent-on-call. Making it uneconomic is the way to kill it.

[etlabaume]

Half of the spam calls I get today are AI. And I get more or less one spam call a day.

[dools]

AI Guilfoyle and AI Dinesh

[red-iron-pine]

dead internet theory, telco edition.

presumably someone is still getting charged for calls and AI -- and therefore someone is making money -- in this situation though, non?