'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.

        • Wholesalechicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          Going through your comment history it’s obvious your a China apologist. Seems like the trolls spared no effort to migrate to Lemmy as we

          • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            1 year ago

            Your post history is short but it seems your very first post here was “Fuck the CCP”.

              • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
                16·
                1 year ago

                That means you support the genocide of the original population of America, countless coups that led thousands of people to their deaths, the effectively slavery present in american gulags and the bombing of South East nations.

                  • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    14·
                    1 year ago

                    Your country is winning by faaar in the kill muslims scale, given how many million of dollars you’ve spent bombing them.