Well, with the previous voice-faking tech releases I kinda expected that the scams are gonna evolve from garbled “Hi ma, I've been in a road accident, need to pay off, please send money to this number”. But they escalated quicker than I could guess.
My 90 year old grandma had a fraudster call her last month claiming that her son had been in a car accident and needed money to pay for his emergency surgery
If that call had instead been a pitch-perfect replication of my dad’s voice - or my aunt - I guarantee you it would have worked.
I never thought about this scenario but now I am kind of scared. I guess that they would need a lot of data from my own voice to train a model like that. I am a kind of happy now that my podcast was taken down due to copyright infringment :)
