Generative Social Networking by Christian Croft & Andrew Schneider is (yet another) student project from New York Universities Interactive Telecommunications Program (see RoPaSci, MoBeeLine) which generates conversations between a phone owners list of contacts by calling each contact in turn, recording their voice and then moving onto the next contact to use the voice of the previous contact to generate a conversation. The software retrieves the phone owners list of contacts by exploiting a security hole in bluetooth devices (known as bluesnarfing):

How does it work? Unbeknownst to the phone owner, her device betrays its list of saved phone numbers to a nearby laptop. After the list is acquired, an Asterisk phone server generates a “conversation” with each number in the list. The first number on the list is called and receiver’s response recorded. The next number on the list is called, the first number’s initial response is played back to the new number, and the new number’s response to the old number’s prompt is recorded. This continues for however many phone numbers are in the contact list.

For a demonstration of the software at work, play the video below.