{"id":510535,"date":"2026-07-05T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510535\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:49:42","slug":"how-to-break-an-ai-scam-caller-with-simple-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510535\/","title":{"rendered":"How to break an AI scam caller with simple commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world coming to when we can&#8217;t even get swindled by good, honest (well, not really) humans anymore?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advent of AI has massively improved the scalability of <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/tag\/scambaiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">these kinds of scams<\/a>, to the point where a human doesn&#8217;t even need to be involved in the process. The upside? These models are still fragile enough to be broken with a few simple commands, sending them spiraling into endless loops and costing scammers precious time and\/or money. Scambaiter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lk3jCuITwcE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kitboga<\/a> demonstrates this technique in flawless detail, sending one AI phone scammer after another to purgatory (or to Albuquerque, which is basically the same thing).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try it yourself next time you get a spam call! Get them to burn through their tokens for the good of unsuspecting victims!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,28176,254125,111,139,69,18434,145],"class_list":["post-510535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-internet-culture","tag-kitboga","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-scams","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}