According to some cybersecurity experts, the biggest threat of AI, is its ability to annihilate the line that differentiate reality from fiction, since it will provide cybercriminals with a simple and efficient tool for spreading misinformation.
AI Voice-cloning Technologies
“Help me, mom, please help me,” heard Jennifer DesStefano, an Arizona resident, from the other end of the line.
She says she was “100 percent” convinced that it was her 15-year-old daughter, with her voice seemingly distressed. Her daughter, at the time was away on a skiing trip.
“It was never a question of who is this? It was completely her voice… it was the way she would have cried,” told DeStefano to a local television station in April.
It was not until later that the fraudster took over the call, which came from a private number, and demanded up to $1 million.
As soon as DeStefano made contact with her daughter, the AI-powered deception was finished. However, the horrifying incident, which is currently the subject of a police investigation, highlighted how fraudsters may abuse AI clones.
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