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Cole Martin

The clicking of your keyboard may be enough for AI to steal your data, even over a video call

A robot wearing headphones listening to a laptop in the background.

What you need to know

  • A team of researchers from Cornell University published a paper detailing how they trained AI to listen to audio inputs from keyboards and interpret what the user typed.
  • With specific keyboards and matching references, the AI was able to detect what was typed with 95% accuracy.
  • Using touch for typing input reduced keystroke recognition down to 40-64%, while white noise and extra keystrokes also lowered the accuracy.
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