Sorry, no ‘free money’: Biden did not approve a $5,200 subsidy for Americans older than 25
By Loreben Tuquero
In a video, a voice that sounds like President Joe Biden’s announced that "free money" worth $5,200 is up for grabs. All you need to do is click a link...
Hany Farid, an electrical engineering and computer sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told PolitiFact that an analysis using a model trained to distinguish between real and AI-generated voices classified the audio as "fake." Farid said that the cadence of the voice was a telltale sign that AI generated the audio.
"AI-generated voices tend to have a regular cadence without a lot of variation in the spacing between words — that is, somewhat robotic. Human speech, on the other hand, tends to have more variations with occasional disfluencies," he said.
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
