350,000 AI Bots Trap Phone Scammers

🔥 What happened Australian startup Apate deployed 350,000 AI bots to keep phone scammers on the line for hours. Some calls stretch past two hours, and the bots have already harvested 250,000 data points on scam networks. 💡 Why it matters With 68 billion scam calls worldwide each year, 350,000 bots are a drop in the bucket – but the intel may matter more than the wasted time. The bots even infiltrate scam groups and surface the criminals' bank accounts. ⚡ Our take Finally, AI that fights harm instead of causing it. The real weapon isn't the time-wasting – it's the intelligence goldmine these agents quietly collect.