AI Tool Koe Recast claims that its AI voice-generating software requires just a few sentences of audio to replicate your voice. If that’s not suspicious enough, other options need as little as three seconds to capture and reproduce it to a convincing degree. Long gone are the days of Caller ID Spoofing! 

Scammers these days might just be using ChatGPT to help write a convincing story as well. Such AI impersonation tools are surely a small price to pay for the $2.7B that US consumers lost to imposter scams in 2023 alone. And although it’s been the tried-and-true method for decades, phone calls are no longer the scammer’s medium of choice. According to the FTC, the highest overall reported losses were caused by scammers on social media. We’ll have to wait and see if the FTC’s amendments to their Trade Regulation Rule meaningfully improves the situation in 2024. 

In the meantime - you can tune into Privacy Chats with Rachel and John to learn more about the very real implications of high quality deep fakes found in our everyday lives. What’s cooler than out-scamming the scammer, anyway?