Start-up uses AI voice chatbots to waste scam callers' time

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Founder of Australian start-up Apate, Professor Dali Kaafar, says his company is weaponising AI for good by using a large language model to chat with unsuspecting scam callers, preventing them from reaching potentially 'hundreds of thousands' of possible victims.
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