Terrible: AI clones girl’s voice and extorts family

A scary situation that shows negative consequences artificial intelligence According to the New York Post, it took place in Arizona, USA, and what the DeStefano family went through after a group of criminals cloned their daughter’s voice to concoct a kidnapping and demand a lucrative ransom.

Jennifer DeStefano said she received a call from allegedly kidnapped “her daughter” asking her to immediately hand over the phone to the kidnapper, who asked her for a million dollars so as not to harm her. Jennifer stated that she never doubted for a second that it was her daughter’s voice.

The attempted kidnapping of DeStefano’s daughter Bree, in addition to extortion, added sobbing, screaming and crying from the alleged young woman, as well as threats from the kidnapper to drug and harm her if the ransom was not paid, while in the back Bree’s voice could still be heard crying and asking for help.

The family found out about the scam after they contacted Bree by phone and confirmed that she was fine.

“Initially, this will require more samples,” explained Subbarao Kambhampati, professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Arizona State University. Now there are ways to do it with just three seconds of your voice. Three seconds. And in three seconds, he can get close to how you sound,” he added. With a large enough sample size, AI can mimic a person’s “intonation” as well as their “emotions,” according to the professor.

DeStefano found the voice simulation particularly disturbing given that “Bree has no public social media accounts that include her voice,” the website said in a post. “She has a few public sports/school interviews that have a great sample of her voice,” the mother described, who also commented that “however, this is something that kids who have public (social media) accounts should be more concerned. “”.