Her grandson's voice said he was under arrest. This senior was almost scammed with suspected AI voice cloning. (www.cbc.ca)
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 19:50
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MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee on 20 Mar 20:03 next collapse

Simpsons did an episode on this years ago. It was a whole episode dedicated to common scams.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 21 Mar 19:08 collapse

“Simpsons did it!” – South Park

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 22:38 next collapse

Basis for a super fun movie last year:

Thelma:

youtu.be/RFAFsDEM0j4

Bonus: The actress, June Squibb, is legit 95 years old(!)

HubertManne@piefed.social on 20 Mar 23:11 next collapse

Yeah but now the voice says hes been picked up by ice and they are sending them off and don't care about his citizenship or due process.

echodot@feddit.uk on 22 Mar 06:26 collapse

Quite a few countries in Europe have just stopped short of telling their citizens not to go to the US anymore. ICE are going to utterly destroy US tourism, an industry worth about 3 trillion a year, because they keep detaining people from first world countries who definitely don’t want to sneak into the US. They detained a British national a few weeks ago who was trying to enter Canada, she was actively leaving.

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 04:05 collapse

Always use the proper dialect when talking to your folks!

So when your fake voice talks to them in formal language, they know immediately that it isn’t you.

At least for a few more years, and at least in Europe, where dialects are still strong and dialect regions super small, this is a strong protection.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 18:38 collapse

Also a good idea to have a password or code phrase. This is something that’s been advised for child abductions for years now.

“Your mom sent me to pick you up.”

“What’s the password?”

“. . .”

www.kansascity.com/news/…/article231037078.html

echodot@feddit.uk on 22 Mar 06:22 collapse

This would work with my mother but my dad is terrible when it comes to this stuff.

He’ll send me the most obvious scam email the world has ever seen asking me if it’s legitimate, it will it will be some IRS scam wanting him to pay back $10,000 with Apple gift cards, I’m like dad, you’re not even American.