From India Today
Supriya Sule, Nana Patole Bitcoin audios: What AI detection tools tell us
On the eve of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, Ravindranath Patil, a former IPS officer from Pune, made startling allegations against Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) leader Supriya Sule and Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole, accusing them of misappropriating Bitcoins from a 2019 cryptocurrency fraud case and using that to fund campaigning for the polls.
The former IPS officer alleged Amitabh Gupta, then commissioner of the Pune police and Bhagyashri Nautake, the former deputy commissioner of police who was handling the cybercrime investigations, were involved in the misappropriation of Bitcoins, which were used by the two political leaders...
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, who specialises in the analysis of deepfakes, told India Today Fact Check that he analysed these audio samples with two of their models trained to distinguish real from AI-generated voices.
He said: “Collectively the models classify three of the audios as likely to be AI and one of the audios (the alleged Nana Patole audio) was too short for us to obtain reliable results. In addition, native speakers on our team hear telltale signs of AI generation in terms of cadence and intonation...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
