100 years ago you would have needed an expert, specialized equipment and several hours. 10 years ago, you still needed an expert and probably an hour at least.

100 years ago you would have needed an expert, specialized equipment and several hours. 10 years ago, you still needed an expert and probably an hour at least. Soon, there may be tools anyone can use, feed in some photos of you and a description of what you want to see. It will be easy to generate fake profile pictures that look like you, for instance. Your voice will be easily cloned on the phone as well, and eventually, even video chats could be fake. Scammers could find out when you're on a trip from social media, reach out to your family, ask for emergency money because of a stolen wallet, etc. Still some effort for the scammers, but eventually, you might be able to automate the whole scam with a bot. The bot doesn't need to be that smart, it just needs to follow a script with a handful of variants, like a preplanned dialogue tree.