In the past two days alone, I’ve gotten over 20 spam calls with none of them leaving a message. Just 3/4 seconds of silence on my voice mail. One call the other day left a 22 second blank message.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
    581·
    3 days ago

    My Google Pixel uses AI to answer the call in the background, and will automatically report as spam and block these calls. I haven’t gotten a spam call in over a year

    • gruhuken@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I work for a mental health research study and often have to warm call people who expressed interest to book them in for a screening with us.

      Finally encountered a Google AI response the other week and got scared and confused so I just hung up and sent an email 🥲

    • Absaroka@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      27·
      3 days ago

      Hmm - I have a Pixel as well. I’ve been blocking / reporting but they seem to come from tons of different phone numbers. And for some reason the Pixel lets them leave a voice mail if they’re blocked / known spam.

      • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        Wait, where do I enable this? 😮

        Edit: Found this guide, but Spam & Call Screen isn’t available on my 8 pro. So I guess it’s only regionally available. :/

        Edit 2: Some people online seem to have the same problem. Assigning Phone back as Spam App in the phone settings, clearing the cache and force stopping the Phone app also didn’t change anything.

      • gruhuken@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        As a researcher who often has to follow up participants damnnnn yooouuuu 😭 /lh I never know what to say to those things

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      7·
      3 days ago

      Uh… does your phone still ring, or does it literally answer the call and the robot voice takes over. In both cases, I find that freaky

      • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        3 days ago

        It answers the call behind the scenes without you needing to hear or listen. It pops up a notification saying that the call is ongoing with the screening AI, and you have an option to immediately stop the call or to pick it up. It also records a transcript of the call for you to listen to afterwards. It also doesn’t screen every call, if it’s a number in your contacts it lets it through to you as normal.