their reviews the emergence of deep fake voice programs will lead to a new wave of scams as AI becomes better at creating speech that sounds like it came from a specific person social media is Awash with examples of deep fakes with one startling creation showing an AI generated Morgan Freeman that looks and sounds just like the Hollywood star I am not Morgan Freeman and what you see is not real it's not hard to see how deep fake AI can be abused when you're not face to face with someone to vet they are an actual human
being if criminals have a big enough voice sample of a Target they can use commercially available AI software to mimic the person's speech scammers then use these fake voices to call the target's loved ones and plead for money because the voices are so convincing victims are often fooled businesses are also in the firing line in January 2020 a UAE Bank lost 35 million dollars after a branch manager was tricked into transferring funds to someone he thought was the company's director with AI improving all the time detecting these deep fakes will only become more difficult
