'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.

      • carbotect@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        61·
        2 years ago

        You can’t download a tank.

        One leak would make this deepfake software publicly available to all bad actors anyways regardless of any ban.

        Also a global ban seems unlikely. You can protect Americans from bullets coming from enemy territory. You can’t protect them from viral deepfaked posts.

          • Wholesalechicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            2 years 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

          • carbotect@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            61·
            2 years ago

            I am not talking about America vs Russia. I am talking about the fact, that Internet censorship doesn’t really work.

            Chinese citizens can easily bypass Internet restrictions, implemented by the second richest economy in the world, just through a simple VPN.

            The only way for a country to implement an effective deepfake ban, would be disconnecting from the global Internet entirely and let computers only connect to a government controlled intranet, like in North Korea.

            And even then, with a USB stick with a copy of the illegal deepfake software, a criminal can still easily do, what this article is talking about.