WASHINGTON: The voice on the phone seemed frighteningly real - an American mother heard her daughter sobbing before a man took over and demanded a ransom. But the girl was an AI clone and the abduction was fake. The biggest peril of artificial intelligence, experts say, is its ability to demolish the bound
"It was never a question of who is this? It was completely her voice ... It was the way she would have cried," DeStefano told a local television station in April.The scammer who took over the call, which came from a number unfamiliar to DeStefano, demanded up to US$1 million.
"With a small audio sample, an AI voice clone can be used to leave voicemails and voice texts. It can even be used as a live voice changer on phone calls," Khaled said. Seventy per cent of the respondents said they were not confident they could"tell the difference between a cloned voice and the real thing", said the survey, published last month by the US-based McAfee Labs.
The ruse, reported by McAfee Labs, was so convincing that his grandfather urgently started scrounging together money and even considered re-mortgaging his house, before the lie was discovered.
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