Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
Named Apate, after the Greek goddess of deception, the system will 'scam the scammers," using convincing voice clones to conduct conversations with real scammers.
I half expected them to just call it Kitbogabot.