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I always get a little skeptical when someone tells me they literally died.

Maybe instead of setting up a page listing them, prominently flag their business listing as engaging in fraud and lower their star count to near zero?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

So some of you might remember this post (and the subsequent demonstration on national news) of using a voice cloning tool (AI, Audio Deep Fake) by @racheltobac

Link to post: infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/

(If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Rachel is amazing.)

I'd never needed to do a similar attack before, but! I was just tasked yesterday with researching it.

Asked some friends for a turn-key solution to clone voices. Got pointed to a website. Signed up for $1 a month (first month... then it goes to $5 a month thereafter).

Pulled some audio of my mark down from a youtube interview (a podcast works great too).

Only needed a minute's worth of audio.

Uploaded it to the website for cloning.

Typed out a quick script for the voice to read.

30 seconds later, I had my cloned audio.

It was so good, that it even included natural voice inflections AND!!! verbal pauses like umm's and uhh's that matched the mark's original presentation. I can't tell the difference between the cloned voice and the original person.

Y'all... voice cloning and audio deep fakes are well past the ease of "script-kiddy" level. Anyone can do it.

#infosec #hacking #socialEngineering #scams #deepfake #AI #phishing #vishing

@evan We both believe that beings have rights and dignity. You seem to believe that there theoretically can be machines that are beings, and I don't

Sort of like how social.domain.tld can point to a social server, smtp.domain.tld can point to a mail server, etc.

@evan I prefer it. DNS and the Internet are more than just the Web, so I like the idea of having a subdomain that can point to your webserver.

@evan We both believe that beings have rights and dignity. You seem to believe that there theoretically can be machines that are beings, and I don't

@evan This isn't about denying rights and dignity, this is about whether AI are actually *beings* (and thus whether rights and dignity apply). About the being-on-the-wrong-side-of-history thing — lots of good things have been on the wrong side of history.

@evan I'm saying AI is not conscious, not humans.

@evan Human-equivalent AI being treated equivalently to humans... many don't believe AI can ever even be alive, no matter how human-like it may appear.
We can arrange physical particles, but consciousness itself is something fundamentally beyond physics. And so AI is consciousless.

@kyle You remind me of myself. There's always an overabundance of interesting things to do!

You know, if PCs came with embedded ​s it might be possible to actually, more or less, 'download more RAM'.

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