"Scamming the Scammers: New AI Fake Victims to Disrupt Criminal Business Mode"
Cybersecurity experts at Macquarie University have created a multilingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on lengthy fake conversations and, ultimately, reduce the number of people who lose money to global criminals. The new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven system has created convincing fake victims in the form of multilingual chatbots that waste the time of scam callers in an effort to reduce the estimated $55 billion annual loss to thieves. The "Apate" system, named after the Greek goddess of deception, is a system that uses convincing voice clones to engage in conversations with actual scammers. This article continues to discuss the Apate system developed by Macquarie University cybersecurity experts that uses voice clones to keep scammers on the line in fake conversations with AI chatbots.