US: A mother said she was 100% persuaded by an artificial intelligence voice clone of her daughter that scammers employed in a fictitious kidnapping attempt. When Arizonan Jennifer DeStefano answered a call from an unknown number, she thought she overheard her 15-year-old daughter Brie “sobbing.” “Mom, I messed up,” stated the voice on the other end of the queue before a male voice seized control and began to make obtrusive demands.
Kidnapper threatened the mother
“Listen here, I’ve got your daughter,” the man says on the phone, according to Ms. DeStafano. “You call the police, you call anybody,” the alleged kidnapper threatened the mother, “I’m going to pop her so full of drugs, I’m going to have my way with her, and I’m going to drop her off in Mexico.”
It was clearly her voice-Ms. DeStefano
Ms. DeStefano claimed that she could hear her daughter screaming and saying, “Help me, mom, please help me.” It was entirely her voice, according to Ms. DeStefano. “Who is this? was never a question. I never for a moment doubted that it was her because it was exactly her voice, exactly how she would have cried. The bizarre aspect that really shook me to my core was that,” She said. Before dropping the price to $50,000, the daughter’s purported kidnapper requested $1 million. After a friend called her husband to ensure that her daughter was safe, Ms. DeStefano just realised that she was safe.
Police are still looking for the scammer
The scammer, whose identity police are still looking into, seems to have used artificial intelligence voice clone technology, which has improved over time at simulating human voices. With free AI tools readily available online, it is also rather simple to access and use. Artificial intelligence-generated voices have already been utilised in movies to mimic actors like James Earl Jones, who provided the voice of the original Darth Vader in the Star Wars series. One voice clone startup has issued a warning that the technology might be “harmful in the wrong hands” and that it could be used by scammers or those attempting to produce deepfake films.
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