• AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I don’t know, the “Spanish prisoner” is a scam that seems to be reinvented every few years every time we see a little bit of a change in technology. It wouldn’t take much to fake a person’s voice with a trained model, especially if that person has an online profile open to the public where they post content in their own voice.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, it has some sus vibes. I’m usually far too trusting, but here even my bullshit detectors rang

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        10 months ago

        You know that old adage “Never attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity”?

        We need a new one along the lines of “Never attribute to truth that which can be easily explained by attention-starved teenagers”

    • I could easily conceive some tricks to get clips of a person’s voice without them realizing. I’d write them out but… that would be stupid of me. Humans have more vulnerabilities than computers.

    • PLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, unless this person runs a YouTube or podcast it seems implausible. What would you train a random AI on for the normal person?

      I could see a situation where you hack a phone, get the contacts and call history, pick the 1st or 2nd most dialed number, have a bot call that person to get samples, then go back to the original phone and try this… I mean, eventually you’d get a hit?