Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have made it easy to generate believable audio, allowing anyone from foreign actors to music fans to copy somebody’s voice.
- Last week, actor Tom Hanks warned his social media followers that bad actors used his voice to falsely imitate him hawking dental plans.
- Over the summer, TikTok accounts used AI narrators to display fake news reports that erroneously linked former president Barack Obama to the death of his personal chef.
- A fake AI voice that sounded like 🇸🇰 Slovakia’s Progressive party leader, Michal Šimečka, described a scheme to rig.
While experts have long predicted generative artificial intelligence would lead to a tsunami of faked photos and video — creating a disinformation landscape where nobody could trust anything they see — what’s emerging is an audio crisis.