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The terrifying rise of 'voice cloning' scams: How hackers can use AI to replicate your voice before placing fake panicked calls to friends or family pleading them to send money
Our voices are just about as unique as our fingerprints - so how would you feel if your voice was cloned? A new type of deepfake known as voice cloning has emerged in recent months, in which hackers use artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate your voice. Famous faces including Stephen Fry, Sadiq Khan and Joe Biden have all already been victims of voice cloning, while one unnamed CEO was even tricked into transferring 243,000 to a scammer after receiving a fake phone call. But how does it work, and just how convincing is it? To find out, I let a professional hacker clone my voice - with terrifying results.
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