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The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

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Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

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Anyone believing AI will be a nice thing in the future: With data from social media it's a fucking nightmare - billions of people having their relationships visible to everyone and a singular voice recording/video is enough to scam your friends, family, workplace.

I don't see a future of the current communication channels without strong authentication measures - people already get scammed with shitty tactics by billions of dollars per year and now you can automate it.

Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

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post #9

As horrible as this is, I suspect this will be far worse in enterprise companies. We’ve already seen issues with email impersonation where top managers or CEOs order money transfers, and since this works better than it should, we now use confirmation of some sort. Imagine if you’d get both the email and a call, maybe even a video call in the future with the confirmation… Especially CEOs will be very “easy” to imperso…

Interesting any article about the systems on denmark

Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

#14
I recommend that everyone come up with a predetermined secret question that has both a real answer and a duress answer. Decide this question/answers with your loved ones in advance. If you're ever in a situation like this, you can ask the question to determine if its real and if they are being coerced.

Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

#16

Anyone believing AI will be a nice thing in the future: With data from social media it's a fucking nightmare - billions of people having their relationships visible to everyone and a singular voice recording/video is enough to scam your friends, family, workplace. I don't see a future of the current communication channels without strong authentication measures - people already get scammed with shitty tactics by billi…

I doubt a single voice recording could generate speech with enough emotional depth that I'd be fooled by a fake call from my better half. Do people really have such a shallow connections to their loved ones that they wouldn't instinctively feel that something isn't right? C'mon, we humans operate with a lot of extra clues. Its not like we just STT and "read" the resulting output.

Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

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post #9

As horrible as this is, I suspect this will be far worse in enterprise companies. We’ve already seen issues with email impersonation where top managers or CEOs order money transfers, and since this works better than it should, we now use confirmation of some sort. Imagine if you’d get both the email and a call, maybe even a video call in the future with the confirmation… Especially CEOs will be very “easy” to imperso…

You can use digital signatures without relying on a national system. There are plenty of available digital signature systems available. While that may not work well for communicating with external actors, within an enterprise it should be no problem.

Re: The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

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post #9

As horrible as this is, I suspect this will be far worse in enterprise companies. We’ve already seen issues with email impersonation where top managers or CEOs order money transfers, and since this works better than it should, we now use confirmation of some sort. Imagine if you’d get both the email and a call, maybe even a video call in the future with the confirmation… Especially CEOs will be very “easy” to imperso…

Interesting any article about the systems on denmark

It's more than Denmark, the Nordics in general use digital signatures for accessing banking, government services (tax agencies, healthcare, pension systems, etc.), online payment ID checks, and so on.

In Denmark I believe NemID/MitID is the most used one, here in Sweden we have BankID (most used), and Freja eID, there are a few smaller ones as well; Norway has their own BankID that is independent from the Swedish one; Finland has their own as well (and I heard it's been live before the 2000s).

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