I enjoy the pixel line of phones having google assistant answer spam calls for me. Sometimes its fun to watch the conversation they attempt to have with the assistant.

This isn't just pixel phones anymore, and it hasn't been for a while. You can also tell that it's not a person sometimes (specifically extended car warranty for me) if you have a cheap phone like mine, because you can hear the message on the other end start as soon as the line opens, before the phone shuts off the speaker and starts playing it's own message; once the assistant finishes talking, you can see the transcript start in the middle because the other end doesn't recognize Google assistant like it (probably) would an answering machine.

At least here human operators apparently are paid for call duration and they will prolong the call up to 15 minutes and you don't need to say anything.