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Fortune
Steve Mollman

Scammers are using voice-cloning A.I. tools to sound like victims’ relatives in desperate need of financial help. It’s working.

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You may very well get a call in the near future from a relative in dire need of help, asking you to send them money quickly. And you might be convinced it’s them because, well, you know their voice. 

Artificial intelligence changes that. New generative A.I. tools can create all manner of output from simple text prompts, including essays written in a particular author’s style, images worthy of art prizes, and—with just a snippet of someone’s voice to work with—speech that sounds convincingly like a particular person.

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