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by malux85 2408 days ago
You read the article right? It literally happened. It’s already good enough to fool people who aren’t paying attention.
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> "Analysts told the WSJ that they believe that artificial intelligence- (AI)-based software was used to create a convincing imitation of the German CEO’s voice…"

> "If this turns out to indeed be a deepfake audio scam…"

It didn't literally happen, they _think_ that's what happened. I'm sceptical personally, I didn't realise deep fake audio could be done in realtime now? And who is this CEO that must have hundreds of hours of publicly available audio that the voice could be trained on?

Take a look at this article that hit HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878