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US mother gets call from ‘kidnapped daughter’ – but it’s really an AI scam (web.archive.org)

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After being scammed into thinking her daughter was kidnapped, an Arizona woman testified in the US Senate about the dangers side of artificial intelligence technology when in the hands of criminals.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty easy to create voice clones, now. As long as you tailor the speech you want it to speak and don't have it speak too long it can get pretty good even with very little input