Holy crap, the end is near for the "pig butchering" scams in northern Myanmar! They've finally met their ultimate adversary! Not the police, not the anti-fraud center, but a group of AI agents who never hang up – a veritable "digital swarm" of elderly people! An Australian startup called Apate has created 350,000 AI agents specifically designed to impersonate vulnerable elderly people living alone, answering scam calls and replying to phishing text messages. The scammers thought they'd hooked a big fish, but the other end was a "cyber grandpa" who could never learn to transfer money. The core of this scheme isn't interception, but rather reverse attrition. Scammers have limited manpower; a single scammer can make hundreds of calls a day, gambling on someone taking the bait. Apate's AI uses excuses like feigning ignorance, not being able to hear clearly, poor signal, or their grandchild crying to drag out a call for ten minutes or even two hours or more. Current record: 2.5 million conversations, consuming 17 years of the scammers' time. But the real value isn't the "wasted time," it's the information extracted. Scammers need account details to transfer money. To log in, they need phishing links. AIs have them completely manipulated. Apate's AI memorizes all these bank account numbers, encrypted wallet addresses, and malicious URLs, feeding them to partner banks and telecom companies in real time. After the Commonwealth Bank of Australia integrated with the technology, publicly reported fraud losses decreased by 76%. In August of this year, this company with only 20 employees raised $8.15 million in seed funding, preparing for a global expansion. This is the true value of AI technology, unlike in China where computing power is wasted on AI-generated comics and low-quality short dramas. Zhang Yiming really needs to reflect on this. The scammers in northern Myanmar probably never imagined they'd be driven to the brink of collapse by a group of cybernetic old men and women who don't need sleep, don't need salaries, and will never actually transfer money. I sincerely hope that China can also develop such an anti-fraud AI system, or even import it.