They don’t even have to scrape calls. If you use Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, they already have recordings of your voice on their servers
Uh there’s zero chance these big techs are selling voices like this. Also, this sounds very targeted and planned, so there must be more context to this. Also, why the hell are they on bluesky?
Bluesky is more usable than Mastodon purely because it doesn’t use a decentralized model. Sure it defeats the purpose, but on the plus side it removes some serious inconveniences that the true fediverse comes with, for example i’ve never been on Bluesky and found myself unable to upvote someone because i’ve accidentally left my instance.
Oh they totally are. Maybe not this directly, but there is an awful depth to the data market. One company may be selling to the next and the next and you end up with companies just buying all the data they can to sell police surveillance software running off of fucking Candy Crush telemetry.
They’re on BlueSky because there are more people there that would actually believe this total load of bullshit. Plenty of scams that will claim to be vague family member (no names; just like “son” or “daughter,” “aunt” or “uncle”) but highly unlikely they’re getting an AI to mimic your voice. Just like vagueness of the family member they claim to be, the voices used may coincidentally sound similar.
All of these articles are making it up then? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/business/voice-deepfakes-bank-scams.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/experts-warn-rise-scammers-ai-mimic-voices-loved/story?id=100769857 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-supercharges-voice-scams-making-it-easier-for-americans-to-fall-prey-143635279.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scammers-ai-mimic-voices-loved-ones-in-distress/
Do a lot of people put their voice on the internet “as much as they’re able to”? It sounds like that person may post their voice online more than the average person…
you don’t even need to fake a voice for these scams tho, it’s very difficult to differentiate q voice while you’re crying
My grandmother got a call from scammers pretending to be me. They didn’t use my name, but I was the only adult granddaughter at the time lol. Anyway, the scammers said that they needed money for hospital bills and a bus ticket home. They said they got into a fight at a friend’s funeral in New Jersey and had to go to the hospital. And then after that their car got stolen. My grandmother knew that I was not in New Jersey, and told the scammers that she’d call them back once she got to the bank. She then informed my parents, who told me. It was hilarious.
