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Hey HN, we are Mahmoud and Hammad

Are you though? You might just be computer-generated.

While I'm very impressed with this technically (and as a pro-audio person I feel validated to see my predictions of a few years back coming true so dramatically), I don't see anything about risk management in here. Your tech absolutely will get used by scammers, given the overabundance of voice data on the open internet. How are you going to hedge against that?

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We have many mitigations in place to increase the safety of this service, I mentioned some of that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35331310

That's interesting. But I think it's a mistake to focus on relying on price to prevent abuse at scale. The use case for abuse of this technology is in highly targeted frauds, not broad-spectrum scams like insurance robocalls. Additionally, this will be zero deterrent to deep-pocketed actors like political action committees that generate fakery to influence elections and the like.

I'm trying not to be reflexively dismissive, and I know the technology is evolving so fast that your individual company can't necessarily pre-empt it, any more than an email software supplier is responsible for the existence of phishing. But I work adjacent to the security space (studying violent extremists) and I can think of a ton of ways to abuse this where economics would be absolutely zero deterrent.

Wow, I haven't even thought of that. Imagine this being used together with a chatgpt equivalent. Scam rates are going to go through the roof.

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