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AI fools voice recognition used to verify identity by Australian tax office
- smt88 4y agoI'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how deepfakes (of voices and faces) are anything other than a dangerous weapon that a tiny group of people will profit from. There are no ethical use cases for these things other than resurrecting dead celebrities (which is itself morally fraught).
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoTransferable knowledge? We can all agree that nuclear weapons are a bad thing but much of today's Nuclear medicine and radiotherapy probably would not have matured without that primary defense funded research.
- smt88 4y agoThat's a pretty good answer, but it's only verifiable in retrospect. So far, we've seen *NNs used for bad things and utterly fail at good things (like increasing the accuracy of reading radiographs).
- cs702 4y agoThis doesn't feel so futuristic anymore: T-800, speaking to John Connor in normal voice: "What's the dog's name?" John Connor: "Max." T-800, impersonating John, on the phone with T-1000: "Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he all right?" T-1000, impersonating John's foster mother, Janelle: "Wolfie's fine, honey. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?" T-800 hangs up the phone and says to John in normal voice: "Your foster parents are dead."
- flangola7 4y agoThere's already people being scammed because they receive phone calls using a family member's voice and spoofed number.
- ashwagary 4y agoVoice recognition seems like a terrible verification solution, especially over a low quality phone connection. I'm shocked at the growing frequency of these kinds of stories exposing that sensitive information is protected using it.