'It was completely her voice. It was her inflection. It was the way she would have cried.'
"It was completely her voice. It was her inflection. It was the way she would have cried.""It was completely her voice. It was her inflection. It was the way she would have cried."A mom says criminals used AI to clone the voice of her 15-year-old daughter to fake a kidnapping and trto get a ransom — a shocking incident that underlines just how far the technology has come and how easily it can be abused.
"I’m going to have my way with her and I’m going to drop her off in Mexico," the man said, disgustingly. After DeStefano balked after being asked for a $1 million ransom, the man reportedly lowered his demand to $50,000.The incident ended just as abruptly as it started. It didn't take much for DeStefano to confirm her daughter was safe in her room — and extremely confused."It was completely her voice," DeStefano told. "It was her inflection. It was the way she would have cried. I never doubted for one second it was her. That’s the freaky part that really got me to my core.
The fake kidnapping highlights a troubling new emergence of criminals making use of powerful AI cloning tools to mimic not only the speech but even the individual mannerisms of their victims."You’ve got to keep that stuff locked down," FBI special agent Dan Mayo toldAnother simple way is to ask the caller about things that they couldn't possibly know about the victim, something that could allow you to "find out real quick that it’s a scam artist," Mayo said.
Nonetheless, according to the agent, AI scam calls like these are an almost daily occurrence — and sometimes, the
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