Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case

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23 points·nradov··10 comments

"Unusual" the first of many. Once crimes like this become slightly more commonplace and start hurting the rich people you're going to see investment in an AI arms race unlike anything we've seen since the cold war. Defeating adversarial techniques and creating AI to identify other AI is going to be a huge business making what we are seeing now look like a drop in the bucket.

At least that means more jobs for us, right?

I think the first few high-profile deep fakes will work effectively well, then people will catch on and we'll figure out a way to cope

Organizations can start by implementing strict wire transfer policies that require multiple authentication factors.

Eventually it will be indistinguishable from reality. Not looking forward to a time where anyone who gets recorded doing something wrong claims it's a deepfake.

Can we all collectively find a way to authenticate videos as they are recorded? Official videos are “easy”: store the hash and length in a public blockchain. Gives it a verified timestamp as well as being “signed” by the official wallet. Then videos can be hashed later to verify that it’s untouched.

But, security cameras?

This story is really sketchy, how did they ever confirm that AI was involved unless they caught the perpetrator?

So we're going to have to start signing our voice mails with our private keys now?

Anyone have a non-paywalled link?

No.

And the "web" link Gogle referrer doesn't work.

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