Another Fucking Problem. Thanks, AI.

Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Apparently, some geniuses have figured out how to make AI *perfectly* clone voices. Not just kinda-sorta sound like someone, but actually be them. And what do you think the first thing people are doing with this is? Yeah, you guessed it: vishing scams. Phishing over the phone, but now with a voice you’ll *swear* is your boss, your bank, or your grandma begging for money.

The article whines on about how sophisticated these attacks are getting – like we didn’t already have enough to deal with. They can use snippets of audio from LinkedIn, public videos, whatever garbage people put online, and build a convincing fake in minutes. It’s all about social engineering, exploiting trust, and generally being awful. They even mention how difficult it is to *detect* these things; current voice biometrics are getting owned by this tech.

The “experts” (and I use that term loosely) suggest training employees to be skeptical, multi-factor authentication for sensitive requests, and verifying out-of-band. Like that’s going to stop someone when they think their CEO is screaming at them on the phone. Honestly, it’s just another layer of bullshit security theater while the attackers are ten steps ahead.

Bottom line? This is a disaster waiting to happen. Prepare for more people getting fleeced because some idiot thought cloning voices was a good idea. I’m surrounded by morons, I swear.

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-voice-cloning-vishing-risks

Speaking of voices, I once had to deal with a user who insisted his computer was possessed because it “sounded different” after he’d installed a text-to-speech program. Took me three hours and a whole lot of caffeine to convince him the demon wasn’t altering the system audio. People are unbelievably stupid.

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