From BBC
Voice cloning tech emerges in Sudan civil war
By Jack Goodman and Mohanad Hashim
A campaign using artificial intelligence to impersonate Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of Sudan, has received hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, adding online confusion to a country torn apart by civil war.
An anonymous account has been posting what it says are “leaked recordings” of the ex-president since late August. The channel has posted dozens of clips - but the voice is fake...
“It is the democratisation of access to sophisticated audio and video manipulation technology that has me most worried,” says Hany Farid, who researches digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US...
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.
