I welcome the spam calls from our asterisk overlords.

I was more thinking I could add it to my Asterisk server to honey-pot the spam callers into an infinite time waster cycle.

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VladVladikoff 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t been more prevalent yet. I still get call centre type spam calls where you can hear all the background noise of the rest of the call centre.

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userbinator 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Is the background noise real, or is it also AI-generated to make you think that it's a human?

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tartoran 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The background noise is a recording for sure, no AI needed, just a background noise audiofile in a loop would do.

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VladVladikoff 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why though? It adds nothing positive, it only makes me sure it is a scam call.

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the_af 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I assume it's to make it seem like an actual call center rather than a scam. I recently got two phone scam attempts (credit card related) that sounded exactly like this.

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ldenoue 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I built a voice AI stack and background noise can be really helpful to a restaurant AI for example. Italian background music or cafe background is part of the brand. It’s not meant to make the caller believe this is not a bot but only to make the AI call on brand.

	▲	grim_io 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can call it what ever you like, but to me this is deceptive. Where is the difference between this and Indian support staff pretending to be in your vicinity by telling you about the local weather? Your version is arguably even worse because it can plausibly fool people more competently.

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you actually answer unknown callers?

	▲	Loughla 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes. I own a business.
	▲	the_af 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. Sometimes it's a legit call. Not often, though. Example of legit calls: the pizza delivery guy decided to call my phone instead of ringing the bell, for whatever reason.