Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams

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'Mom, these bad men have me': She believes scammers cloned her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping | CNN
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"A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough." Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.

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Techbros be like "but what if it can be used to resurrect dead actors?".

Not even necessarily dead actors. They used AI to bring young Luke Skywalker back in The Book of Boba Fett. And it was not great, but it was serviceable. Now give it 10 years.

Ohh, well that totally makes all this worthwhile then.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to suggest that at all. I think it's appalling.

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