“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
I’m pro-AI but any technology that can lead to the creation of deepfakes must be explicitly banned.
Naturally, we’re already talking about criminals but you combat this issue the same way you combat school shootings. Banning the root of the issue and actively persecuting anyone who dares acquire it illegally.
EDIT: The victims wouldn’t have fallen to this deepfake scam if they had their own deepfake scam. Scam the criminal before he scams you!!!
Would it even be possible to ban? Every military in the world wants this technology.
Well, the military has tanks too, should we go around selling tanks to the general population?
You can’t download a tank.
One leak would make this deepfake software publicly available to all bad actors anyways regardless of any ban.
Also a global ban seems unlikely. You can protect Americans from bullets coming from enemy territory. You can’t protect them from viral deepfaked posts.
Perhaps there should be government controlled licenses for some technologies, like for gun ownership? Although there’s probably all sorts of ways that be circumvented. Not sure how best to control this though.
*edit wow thanks, nice to know what sort of community this is. Nothing in the responses so far have told me anything I didn’t already know, and I did point out that it would be circumvented. I don’t see any other ideas though. Maybe with that sort of negative defeatist response we’ll never even try. Fuck it right, let’s just watch the world burn. /s
Basically impossible.
It’s against the ToS to use tools like teamviewer to run user support scams, for example, but people do it anyway. You can’t legislate against criminals, because if they’re already breaking the law, why would they care about another law?
The only way forward here is enforcement. There needs to be better coordination between governments to track down and prosecute those running the scams. There’s been a lot of pressure on India, for example, to clean up their act with their very lax cybercrime enforcement, but it’s very much an uphill battle.
Techbros be like “but what if it can be used to resurrect dead actors?”.
Not even necessarily dead actors. They used AI to bring young Luke Skywalker back in The Book of Boba Fett. And it was not great, but it was serviceable. Now give it 10 years.
This is why code words are important.
As awful as it sounds this needs to be setup between family members. Agree on a phrase or code word to check and make sure they are who they say they are. This is already common when it comes to alarm system monitoring companies, got to make sure the intruder isn’t the one answering the phone and telling them false alarm.
The ‘hostage-taker’ will never be able to duplicate my family’s grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won’t care how it “sounds”…
