AI's Next Frontier: The New Voice Of Scam Calls?

Astonishingly (...or perhaps not, for anyone who's answered a phone call recently), "imposter calls" are the number one offender of spam calls in the United States, amounting to 33% of all phone calls according to a recent study by QR Code Generator.

And a scarier possibility may be just around the corner: recent advances in AI have enabled scammers to create highly realistic voice clones which can replicate voices based on just seconds of audio. This allows scammers to deceive potential targets into believing they are speaking over the phone with a relative, close friend or colleague. To make matters worse, these AI-generated voices aren't just accurate; they're apparently emotionally persuasive. These voice dupes could bring a surprisingly authentic twist to the old "hi mom" text scams.