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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by drzaiusx11 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:28PM (#46804490)
Training a model on sound data from readily available public social network posts and targeting their followers (which on say fb would include family and is full of "olds") isn't a very far fetched use-case for AI. I've created audio models used as audiobook narrators where you can trivially make a "frantic/panicked" voice clip saying "help it's [grandson], I'm in jail and need bail. Send money to [scammer]"

If it's not happening yet, it will...

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by evandrofisico on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:41PM (#46804585)
It is happening already, recently Brazilian woman living in Italy was scammed thinking she was having an online relationship with Brazilian tiktoker, the scammers created a fake profile and were sending her audio messages with the voice of said tiktoker cloned via AI. She sent the scammers a lot of money for the wedding but when she arrived in Brazil discovered the con.
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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by bandrami on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:26PM (#46804945)
It's already happening in India. Voicefakes are working unnervingly well and it's amplified by the fact that old people who had very little exposure to tech have basically been handed a smart phone that has control of their pension fund money in an app.
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