The Jolly Roger Telephone Company has been messing with telemarketers for years now.

Here's how it works:

A telemarketer or scammer places a call, the intended receiver doesn't recognize the number and sends the caller to the Jolly Roger. One of the Jolly Roger's bots answer and try to keep the caller talking for as long as possible.

The general idea is that if they're stuck talking to a bot, they're not bothering you and me. Plus, they have a nice "person" who seems genuinely interested in what they're peddling to talk to.

It's a win-win.

Until now, it's all been done with recordings and algorithms developed by the Jolly Roger's founder Roger Anderson.

You might recognize him from his 2016 Ted Talk.

Or that time he flamed out on Shark Tank.

But now, Anderson has incorporated ChatGPT into the recordings, and while they were funny before, the callers tended to figure out they weren't getting anywhere pretty quick.

With ChatGPT, the bots are pretty good at fooling them and keeping them talking. Take a listen.

His Blockbuster card from 1995. 😂

That scammer didn't have a hope or a prayer.

Keep up the good fight, Jolly RogerGPT!