Jennifer DeStefano tells US Senate about dangers of artificial technology after receiving phone call from scammers sounding exactly like her daughter

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.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    12·
    3 years ago

    Is no one questioning how the alleged kidnappers managed to create a voice profile from a random 15 year old girl to create such a convincing AI voice? The only source that claims that this was potentially an AI scam, was in fact just another parent:

    But another parent with her informed her police were aware of AI scams like these.

    Isn’t it more likely that dad & daughter did this and it backfired?

      • PlantJam@beehaw.org
        2·
        3 years ago

        All it takes is a three second sample, according to “The AI Dilemma” on YouTube. It’s about an hour long, but it has a lot of really good information.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
      3·
      3 years 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