alt Hacker NewsI know someone who recently came across a scammer where a guy impersonated a sheriff's deputy and tried to get money out of her. She told me the guy sounded like a real sheriff and made her believe the guy until he asked her to pay some money in Bitcoin. I can imagine that this type of scam could go viral soon. Even worse, someone could record our voice and fine-tune a model like this so that it can produce our voice and then talk to our family members to deceive them. It'd be a real trouble.
Totally agree. Those scam calls calling as IRS agent, or outsourced criminal shops that try to steal identity, now this makes it much easier. No more foreign accent. They can hyper optimize to sound like a person from that specific locality.