{"id":618125,"date":"2023-03-15T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/ai-generated-voice-deep-fakes-arent-scary-good-yet\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:49:04","slug":"ai-generated-voice-deep-fakes-arent-scary-good-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/ai-generated-voice-deep-fakes-arent-scary-good-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated Voice Deep Fakes Aren\u2019t Scary Good\u2014Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid the generative-artificial-intelligence<\/span> frenzy<\/a> of the last few months, security researchers have been revisiting the concern that AI-generated voices, or voice deepfakes, have gotten convincing enough and easy enough to produce that scammers will start using them en masse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There have been a couple of high-profile incidents in recent years in which cybercriminals have reportedly used<\/a> voice deepfakes of company CEOs<\/a> in attempts to steal large amounts of money\u2014not to mention that documentarians posthumously created voice deepfakes of Anthony Bourdain<\/a>. But are criminals at the turning point where any given spam call could contain your sibling’s cloned voice desperately seeking \u201cbail money?”<\/a> No, researchers say\u2014at least not yet.<\/p>\n

The technology to create convincing, robust voice deepfakes is powerful<\/a> and increasingly prevalent in controlled settings<\/a> or situations where extensive recordings of a person’s voice<\/a> are available. At the end of February, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox published findings<\/a> that he had recorded five minutes of himself talking and then used a publicly available generative AI service, ElevenLabs, to create voice deepfakes that defeated a bank’s voice-authentication system. But like generative AI’s shortcomings in other mediums, including limitations<\/a> of text-generation chatbots<\/a>, voice deepfake services still can’t consistently produce perfect results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDepending on the attack scenario, real-time capabilities and the quality of the stolen voice sample must be considered,\u201d says Lea Sch\u00f6nherr, a security and adversarial machine learning researcher at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany. \u201cAlthough it is often said that only a few seconds of the stolen voice are needed, the quality and the length have a big impact on the result of the audio deepfake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Digital scams and social engineering attacks like phishing are a seemingly ever-growing threat, but researchers note that scams in which attackers call a victim and attempt to impersonate someone the target knows have existed for decades\u2014no AI necessary. And the very fact of their longevity means that these hustles are at least somewhat effective at tricking people into sending attackers money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese scams have been around forever. Most of the time, it doesn\u2019t work, but sometimes they get a victim who is primed to believe what they\u2019re saying, for whatever reason,\u201d says Crane Hassold a longtime social engineering researcher and former digital behavior analyst for the FBI. \u201cMany times those victims will swear the person they were talking to was the impersonated person when, in reality, it\u2019s just their brain filling in gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hassold says that his grandmother was a victim of an impersonation scam in the mid-2000s when attackers called and pretended to be him, persuading her to send them $1,500.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith my grandmother, the scammer didn\u2019t say who was calling initially, they just started talking about how they had been arrested while attending a music festival in Canada and needed her to send money for bail. Her response was \u2018Crane, is that you?\u2019 and then they had exactly what they needed,\u201d he says. \u201cScammers are essentially priming their victims into believing what they want them to believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with many social engineering scams, voice-impersonation cons work best when the target is caught up in a sense of urgency and just trying to help someone or complete a task they believe is their responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother left me a voicemail while I was driving to work saying something like \u2018I hope you\u2019re OK. Don\u2019t worry, I sent the money, and I won\u2019t tell anyone,\u2019\u201d Hassold says.<\/p>\n

Justin Hutchens, director of research and development at the cybersecurity firm Set Solutions, says he sees deepfake voice scams as a rising concern, but he’s also worried about a future in which AI-powered scams become even more automated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect that in the near future, we will start seeing threat actors combining deepfake voice technology with the conversational interactions supported by large language models,\u201d Hutchens says of platforms like Open AI’s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

For now, though, Hassold cautions against being too quick to assume that voice-impersonation scams are being driven by deepfakes. After all, the analog version of the scam is still out there and still compelling to the right target at the right time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amid the generative-artificial-intelligence frenzy of the last few months, security researchers have been revisiting the concern that AI-generated voices, or voice deepfakes, have gotten convincing enough and easy enough to produce that scammers will start using them en masse.\u00a0There have been a couple of high-profile incidents in recent years in which cybercriminals have reportedly used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42579,46,950],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai-generated","category-technology","category-voice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}