Artificial Intelligence Replicates Familiar Voices in Latest Phone Scams

[Lara]

Today Show reporting losses of 2.2 Billion dollars last year from people pretending to be friends or family members.
It's easy to do it and very convincing now to replicate their voice.
Scammers take videos from social media and make audio clips.
It's getting scary out there. Be extra vigilant when asked for money.
Hang up and call the person on the phone to verify identity if they are asking you you for money.

 

[Lara]

Here's a video of the Today Show Scam warning

 

[spectratg]

AI will slowly and stealthily take over the world, and we won't even be aware of it!

 

[Pecos]

I got one of those several weeks ago, and it really did sound a lot like my grandson. I took me awhile to figure out that something was wrong, and I called his father who confirmed that my grandson was still in Washington State and not "in trouble" in California. I have to admit, that the culprit on the phone was very skillful and he sounded exactly like my grandson.
Watch out!!

 

[SeniorBen]

Elon Musk didn't purchase Twitter because he wanted to own a social media site; he bought it because he wants the data, which he'll be able to use with AI.

A fairly large percentage of the population already believes bogus information that's obviously false to most of us (i.e., covid propaganda). In the near future, it's not going to be so easy to determine what's real and what's deep faked.

We may see some of that in the election next year. We'll see videos of politicians making speeches and doing things that they never did, via AI and deep-fake videos. That technology is already here, but its usage is going to be ubiquitous in the near future. And there's nothing we can do about it. We could ban it here in the U.S., but we can't ban it in other countries. China and Russia are undoubtedly already working on ways to use it against the U.S.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[chic]

Another reason for me to dislike AI but I do think we humans are aware of what's going on by now. Why can't AI be put to use helping disabled people to live independently rather than taking jobs and money from everyday people?

 

[Lara]

Elon Musk didn't purchase Twitter because he wanted to own a social media site; he bought it because he wants the data, which he'll be able to use with AI.

A fairly large percentage of the population already believes bogus information that's obviously false to most of us (i.e., covid propaganda). In the near future, it's not going to be so easy to determine what's real and what's deep faked.

We may see some of that in the election next year. We'll see videos of politicians making speeches and doing things that they never did, via AI and deep-fake videos. That technology is already here, but its usage is going to be ubiquitous in the near future. And there's nothing we can do about it. We could ban it here in the U.S., but we can't ban it in other countries. China and Russia are undoubtedly already working on ways to use it against the U.S.

I agree with your last paragraph but not your first paragraph unless you know something I don't know from a reliable source. My understanding is that he wanted to get rid of the politically biased propaganda allowed and the unfair censoring of posts that had an opposite political view. I've never been on Twitter but that's what I read in the news.