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

Mobile operator O2 has created an AI-powered tool that sounds like an elderly grandmother, keeping phone scammers on calls and away from the general public. 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,