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A comment on Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough?.

Re:Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough? by Jblx2 on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:24PM (#48508387)
Dystopian Future 3: Elderly people getting scammed out of their life savings by scammers on the phone who sound indistinguishable from their grandchildren. (The ones who's grandchildren had their voices scraped from tiktoks.)
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Re:Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough? by kvasserman on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:06PM (#48509994)
This, in fact, is already happening. Elderly are getting duped by scammers using voices of their relatives/children.
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Re:Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough? by gus_massa on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:32PM (#48520608)
It was somewhat popular here in Argentina like 10 years ago. They call at 3 am, crying and after a 15 seconds they pass the phone to the captor/police/medic whatever. It doesn't matter that the voice is accurate.
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