A California mom says she was scammed out of thousands of dollars this month after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter in distress. She now suspects it was an artificial intelligence-generated hoax. Sheâs one of many who have been targeted by so-called âvoice cloningâ scams as AI tools allow anyone to create a convincing replica of someoneâs voice with only a few seconds of real audio. Americans lost more than $893 million to AI-related scams last year, including voice cloning attacks along with AI-generated phishing emails, romance scams and other hoaxes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scammers can mimic anyone from family members and friends to coworkers or professional services workers. Banks including the United Kingdomâs Starling and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia have warned customers to watch out for voice cloning scams. Experts say AI voice replicas have gotten so realistic that most people can no longer reliably distinguish them from real human voices. âFor the everyday person, it is just not fair to expect them to be able to spot this stuff,â said Henry Ajder, an expert on AI-generated media who consults for governments and
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The Constitution and centuries of case law have done an adequate job of enshrining the right to protest in America. But according to the Trump administration, those rights are all but forfeit if the target of a…
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The Constitution and centuries of case law have done an adequate job of enshrining the right to protest in America. But according to the Trump administration, those rights are all but forfeit if the target of a protester’s ire is an AI…
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