'Mom, these bad men have me': She believes scammers cloned her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping | CNN
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Jennifer DeStefano's phone rang in January with a terrifying call from her sobbing 15-year-old daughter, saying she'd been kidnapped. But as a relieved DeStefano soon learned, her daughter was safe and the call was a scam.

“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.

    • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      Well, the military has tanks too, should we go around selling tanks to the general population?

        • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
          211·
          1 year ago

          You can’t download a tank.

          AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA

          OK OK I give up. I can’t possibly fight against THIS LEVEL OF LOGIC.

          You can’t protect them from viral deepfaked posts.

          In other words “Buuuut Ruussssai will deeeepfakeee our politiiciiians we must be able to deepfake them too”.

          Drop the cold war mentality please, for the sake of all of us.