La veille de la cybersécurité

Actor Val Kilmer lost his voice to throat cancer, yet in the new "Top Gun" movie, he does speak a line, thanks to an artificial intelligence program that recreated his voice. That is a good use of audio "deepfakes," computer-generated voices that sound human. Here's a bad use of the evolving tech: Bank robbers faked the voice of a company's director in order to steal $35 million in a 2020 fraud case in the United Arab Emirates. An employee believed they were speaking with the executive on the phone, directing them to transfer funds. But the employee was speaking with a deepfake imitating the director.