"Rise in Phone Bot Usage for Telemarketer Torment"
People frustrated with unwanted telemarketing calls are using AI software and voice cloners to simulate distracted individuals who are willing to stay on the phone indefinitely. With the average American receiving 14 unwanted calls per month, call centers using automated dialers can make hundreds of calls per second. By employing voice modulators and software, telemarketers can remove accents and use prerecorded English phrases. One individual, Roger Anderson, has developed a call-deflection system called Jolly Roger, which uses chatbots to engage telemarketers with preset expressions and distractions. Anderson's system has gained thousands of subscribers who pay $24.99 per year for its services.