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A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
- LorenDB 1y agohttps://archive.ph/vhoSI https://archive.ph/vhoSI
- billy99k 1y agoI'm guessing this will lead to some sort of global identification system, so we know for sure someone isn't AI.
- BillyTheMage 1y agoWhen I was in elementary school the police came and fingerprinted us all... you know, for education about the police system or some crap like that. I imagine in the future they'll come and take moulds of your kids vocal chords.
- timschmidt 1y agoIn the future... only one man is truly free... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRoDgdQF9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRoDgdQF9w
- yieldcrv 1y agoor nothing changes, like with Social Security numbers being inherently insecure and used for reasons outside of their use case, and we just live with that
- consumer451 1y agoImagine the decrease in social media volume if users could filter by "real human only, USA."
- cluckindan 1y agoThis would single-handedly solve unemployment!
- bananapub 1y agothat already exists, it's called "don't have important conversations on your personal mobile phone, the US government spends tens of billions of years on communications security for this exact reason."
- subjectsigma 1y agoOne can dream. Photoshop didn’t inspire a global photo authenticity verification system.
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- sneak 1y agoIf this attack worked, voice impressionists would have been used already. I doubt this will be even a little effective except to drum up anti-AI panic, which it will probably do well.
- conception 1y agoThere overlap between people who sound like Marco Rubio and want to commit espionage is probably small. That is no longer a barrier.
- heavyset_go 1y agoThis attack works all the time, look at the "grandma I need $1k to be bailed out of jail" scam.
- sneak 1y ago…without the need for AI, proving my point.
- heavyset_go 1y agoMy point is the attack in general works, whether you add AI voice cloning or not as a layer of indirection from the truth. It doesn't need AI, but it can and does work with AI.
- Larrikin 1y agoThe people in government used to mostly be serious people that took security seriously. It's possible and will likely work because officials are using apps line signal to try and hide the illegal things they are doing.
- bananapub 1y agoamongst the reasons that the US government spent a bajillion dollars on the world's most secure communications system is to prevent exactly this sort of thing. the fact that the entire federal government is run by deeply fucking stupid people who are not at all interested in the security of the state is the problem here, for once the AI vendors are not the problem.
- itsthecourier 1y agothe amount of high level government communications being done over public apps and social networks is alarming even more when you consider highly classified information is sharing the phone with many of those third party apps
- mindslight 1y agoDoes anyone happen to know this regime's codeword for "the jig is up, time to bug out to China" ? Asking for 350 million friends.
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoThe telephon system is pretty much totally broken. Can you trust incoming numbers? No they can be spoofed. Can you trust the sound of voice? Nope, AI. Can you trust companies to enforce anti robocall and other privacy legislation? Hell no. US mail isn't much better. The fact that seniors have been scammed by us mail for five decades or more with no improvement to regulation or protection is an embarrassment. Email of course is a lost cause.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoOne of the reasons xenophobes are voted into power is the normalisation of attacks, scams and hustles upon your fellow man. If you propell tech forward that bebefits scammers, you are basically distributing leafletts for regressors.
- metalman 1y agoI am more concerned with why this just refuses to be funny, is it that humor would take more involvment and knowledge of the details?, is it serious or a fanatical prank?, both? I hope someone does a late night skit on this and saves me the spit required to figure it out.