From NPR
Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse
By Dara Kerr
All you need is a 15-second recording of someone’s voice to recreate an eerily good AI version using a new tool from Open AI. Even the company says there’s great potential for misuse...
HANY FARID: Here we are driving the train at 100 miles an hour.
KERR: Hany Farid is a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He says scammers are already having a field day with voice cloning.
FARID: I can create scams where I call somebody’s parents and say, Mom, Dad - sounds like their son or their daughter - I’ve been hurt. You need to send money...
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.
