Experts say AI scams are on the rise as criminals use voice cloning, phishing and technologies like ChatGPT to trick people - ABC News

Earlier this year Microsoft revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which could recreate a person's voice after listening to them speak for only three seconds. It was a sign of just how quickly AI could be used to convincingly replicate a key piece of someone's identity. Here is an example of someone's three-second voice prompt, which was fed into the system: And here is what the AI, known as VALL-E, generated when it was asked to recreate that person's voice while saying the following phrase: "The others resented postponement, but it was just his scruples that charmed me." Vice reporter Joseph Cox later used similar AI technology to reportedly gain access to a bank account with an AI-replicated version of his own voice. In March, Guardian Australia journalist Nick Evershed said he was able to use an AI version of his own voice to gain access to his Centrelink self-service account, which raised concerns for some security experts.