After the fake texts and images created by artificial intelligence applications, here are the fake voices that match the voices of celebrities or even the voices of ordinary people spread like wildfire, and examples of them showed the power of these algorithms and their spread at an amazing speed, so welcome to the era of counterfeiting.
With this introduction, the Swiss newspaper "Le Temps" began a report by Anoush Sedteqeh in which he started from an example that happened this week, where a mother in Arizona thought that her daughter had been kidnapped, as Jennifer DiStefano received a call from her 15-year-old daughter – who was supposed to have gone out to ski – and heard her say "mom did something stupid", and was interrupted by a man saying "put your head back, lie down", and then spoke to the mother saying, "Listen to me, I have your daughter, this is what will happen, Call the police or somebody, I'll stuff it with drugs and do whatever I want with it and leave it in Mexico."
A few seconds is enough
The alleged hijacker, according to the NBC story, demanded a ransom of $50 million from the mother, then reduced it to $<>,<> to make the demand more credible.
Jennifer DeStefano heard in the background of the conversation her daughter saying "Help me, Mom, please help me, help me", and that was exactly her voice, and this was how she cried, as the mother told the network, "I did not doubt for a moment that it was her", and minutes later the mother discovered that her daughter was fine and healthy and that this was a scam.
The writer suggested that the fake hijackers used the voice cloning system, especially since these increasingly sophisticated services no longer need to train for hours or even minutes on the voices of their victims, but a few seconds are enough to reproduce the sound to which the program adds emotion, breaks, pauses or even sighs.
The writer reviewed examples of samples of sounds created by an artificial intelligence system, where a journalist succeeded in an experiment to deceive Lloyd's Bank, which is authenticated by analyzing the voice, and another journalist was able to confuse his family members with recordings of the same type that they did not distinguish between them and his real voice, and users of artificial intelligence programs made actress Emma Watson read the book "My Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.
The writer concluded with advice to those who want to protect themselves from the reproduction of the voice not or lack of sharing excerpts of his voice or videos in which he speaks or confining them to a very small circle, in addition to being careful of urgent requests as the mother did in the previous story.