Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam.
Don't do this.
Don't do this.
It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them.
I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised samples if you want to catch a youtuber.
But AFAIK my voice isn't on the internet anywhere. Quite a lot of people are not.
There's a number of ways this information can be connected back, with varying precision, to the person who recorded it.
And we should have learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that data is used in ways we do not expect. For example, what if you don't care to reproduce someone's voice, but you do care to extract age/gender/racial background/sexual orientation from it?
Many (large and small) American companies (and other nationalities as well, sure) a top down management approach is the norm. I.e. "CEO" (or "your manager" / "person in power") says something and you jump and do it without asking any questions because you fear you'll be fired otherwise (or have other repercussions).
In such an environment, imagine the CEO / person in power giving the best sample ever to the crooks, such that they can clone your voice almost perfectly. Now, of course, CEOs are likely to be recorded in various events anyway but some others are less likely, say the CFO.
Then order some lowly finance drone to wire a billion bucks to your account (well, maybe a bit less, and make sure to use someone else's account, seven levels of money mules and 17 different crypto currencies with mixers etc. before cashing out) with your faked voice.
We caught a CEO scam that was pretty good but noticeable recently. They had cloned his voice.
It’s like how those ransomware thieves incentivize all the critical computer systems in the world to remain air gapped, which seems like an overall net positive.
In a sense I agree with you. However, really great organizations have weak links. It only needs one unfortunately. I personally don't want to be out of job because of one weak link.
Sort of to your point, we do have training (which I find obnoxiously dumb, but many seem to find it great - I just let the video run in the background and answer the questions without actually watching a single second of it) around this sort of thing and we have phishing tests that are super easy to figure out (the email headers literally tell you it's a phishing test) but various people post on internal channels "Is this a scam? I'm not sure, please help!" and not all of them are non-technical people at all.
Above a certain size of company there just are gonna be some weak links in just the wrong place(s) randomly even with the best procedures unfortunately.
I'm more than half a century old, an internet geek since a few years before the conventional "dawn of the web" and AFAIK there is no recording of my voice on the internet.
Added to which, controlled samples like this with a good range of syllables will always be more helpful, won't they?
Or, given similar concerns about image and video generation, our faces.
I just saw an incredible Facebook reel of a voice actor, Shelby Young, saying the same thing in a striking range of theatrical voices, and I still wonder. How much of her true vocal fingerprint is unavoidably there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNnyeu_kPU
(As a fan of old movies, "Vintage" was particularly impressive to me -- she is impersonating not just voices but also the choice of tonality those actors made in light of recording technology)
An AI might be able to gain a higher success rate than me.
You enter your First Name, Last Name, Gender, Date of Birth, Pet's Name and Mother's Maiden Name and press the button to find out what your Mr T Name is...
... Mr T says your name is FOOL
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
$section = "toys";
$author = "steveb";
$title = "Your Mr. T Name";
$s_title = "mrtname";
$cat1 = "moviestv";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
require "makehead.pl";
print &MakeHead;
print <<EOFILE;
<P>Your Mr. T name is:</P>
<CENTER><P CLASS="head1">Fool</P></CENTER>
EOFILE
print &MakeFoot;"My. Voice. Is. My. Pass. Port... Verify. Me."
No. Its fine. go ahead and do this ( if you want).