Brit mobile network's Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin Watch out, scammers. O2 has created a new weapon in the fight against fraud: an AI granny that will keep you talking until you get bored and give up.

Telecommunications firm O2 has created a “human-like AI granny” to answer scam calls with the aim of keeping fraudsters on the phone and away from O2 customers.

The telecoms giant said it had created the so-called 'scambaiter' tool in response to research which found that seven in 10 people wanted to get their own back on scammers

A UK telecom company has launched an AI-powered 'grandmother' named Daisy to engage scammers in lengthy conversations, thus wasting their time and protecting potential victims from fraud.'