As artificial intelligence technology rapidly expands, scammers are using the advances to find new ways to target people.
Following the news of a mother in the US who received a convincing phone call created by artificial intelligence of her daughter in distress saying she was ‘held hostage’, Tech Expert Trevor Long advised Triple M Breakfast with Marto, Margaux and Dan steps which can be taken to protect yourself against AI scams.
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Scammers are using people’s social media profiles to source information to generate fake voice messages and phone calls.
“Imagine you’re a teenager on TikTok or Instagram, just all that talking, all those little clips. If that’s public, they can be saved, they can be created and a new voice can be emulated.
“We will get to a point within a very short amount of time, within years, where we have to question every video, photo and audio grab because there’s no guarantee it won’t be computer generated.” said Long.
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