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Talon

This morning, someone called my dad in my name and started asking questions, using what we believe to be AI voice cloning. Be mindful and tell those close to you to be mindful as well. Figure out a way to ID yourself. This tech is quite dangerous and it is being used for evil. Who would've thought.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:13 | Open on dragonscave.space
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GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
Tehiverse

@talon Any time new tech is put forth, there's always a possibility that it can be used for either good or ill. They call the collective human species, HumanKind, but I think that more often than not, we can be HumanCruel.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:26 | Open on handlewalks.masto.host
Talon

I wasn’t there to hear it of course, so I can’t be completely sure what happened exactly. Luckily he did pick up on the strangeness and asked me immediately through a different channel. You can’t trust people to be who they say they are especially now. It’s really unfortunate. Having a way to identify yourself is especially important nowadays. Doing this kind of thing is very easy, and even more so if your voice is easily found with a little bit of searching, which I’m sure mine is.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:31 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

I do wonder why me though? It feels so strangely arbitrary.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:34 | Open on dragonscave.space
JamminJerry

@talon who would have thought? I know I did. once I started seeing what it was really capable of, I started thinking of what things could be bad just like that. technology is truely a great thing, however it can be used for bad things as well. it is just one of those things you have to understand what it could be used for. sadly my voice is all over the place, so someone could really do that with my voice, but at least I know it can happen. there isn't really anything I could do about it, and I wouldn't even try if I could. the thing is if someone wants something bad enough they find a way to get it. your address, other information about you, if they want it bad enough they will find a way to get it.

@talon who would have thought? I know I did. once I started seeing what it was really capable of, I started thinking of what things could be bad just like that. technology is truely a great thing, however it can be used for bad things as well. it is just one of those things you have to understand what it could be used for. sadly my voice is all over the place, so someone could really do that with my voice, but at least I know it can happen. there isn't really anything I could do about it, and I wouldn't...

5 Dec 2023 at 12:07 | Open on dragonscave.space
Jayson Smith

@talon Yeah the best I can think of right now is to come up with a list of questions whose answers you absolutely know, but are not discoverable through any amount of online research. Forget the usual ones…childhood pet's name, name of your first grade teacher, etc. And nothing that is subject to change over time. How about things like, for example, In what year did you first accidentally delete an important file you were never able to recreate or replace? How many SD cards were in your bottom left dresser drawer at 03:14:57 UTC on October 14, 2016? Etc.

@talon Yeah the best I can think of right now is to come up with a list of questions whose answers you absolutely know, but are not discoverable through any amount of online research. Forget the usual ones…childhood pet's name, name of your first grade teacher, etc. And nothing that is subject to change over time. How about things like, for example, In what year did you first accidentally delete an important file you were never able to recreate or replace? How many SD cards were in your bottom left...

5 Dec 2023 at 12:22 | Open on dragonscave.space
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