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Re:Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into sol... by EGreg on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:36PM (#37744756)
Can’t AI simply carry on a complete phone conversation in your voice, trained on all your emails and transcribed zoom calls?

Oh, we are trusting the corps won’t train in that and won’t fine tune on our personal data. Ok!

Things can get really wild when AIs can open lots of fake accounts all over the place.

Most banks ask me verification stuff that has probably been stolen many times by now.

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Re:Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into sol... by AnthonyMouse on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:32PM (#37745350)
The point of the phone verification isn't that the AI can't impersonate you, it's that you have to give them a phone number. Which they mostly want so they can track you, but in theory phone numbers cost money and provide a rate limit.

The problem with this theory is that phone numbers are actually just bits in a phone company's computer and gaining access to them in bulk will become both cheaper and more common the more demand there is for it.

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