[throwaway426079]

Article is about deepfake-based fraud. Good to be reminded of this risk, but the headline is riding the mostly separate wave of chatgpt interest.

[jacquesm]

There are plenty of large databases of image, video and audio material of private individuals tied to their identity. Youtube, instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn etc, all of these give you access to extremely high quality material as well as a lot of context that you could use to make a deepfake more believable. And that's before we get into non-public accessible databases, of which there are plenty.

[throwaway426079]

Yes. Several years ago when banks started using voice pattern recognition as part of telephone banking authentication that was a pretty cool advance, but now it's looking redundant.

[than3]

Many business people fail to plot trends correctly out longer than a few years.

Information follows the same S curve most adoption follows.

Anything you collect, is a liability once its stolen and eventually it becomes freely available regardless of promises to the contrary.

[throwaway426079]

I'm not saying it was bad tech at the time of introduction, just that it's less effective as a security measure now.

[skilled]

It sounds like you are saying that only ChatGPT can be called AI.

[throwaway426079]

No such implication intended.

[stareatgoats]

Came here to say this. It's clickbait, but a good reminder nonetheless.