[carlosjobim]

> To those saying "Oh I can tell it's fake, obviously!", consider: will your parents/grandparents?

No, they won't. There's not a chance.

Yesterday we were visiting an elderly relative, who received a video in WhatsApp family group chat with an AI generated child saying a prayer. I had to repeatedly tell them it was not a real child on the video. To me it was obvious since the whole body was static and only the face was moving slightly, and the child was talking in a way that you knew it was text-to-speech.

There is sadly no hope for the elderly generation. If your parents or grandparents receive a video with your face, asking them for money - they will believe it. Even if you stand right in front of their face in real life telling them the video on their device is not real, they will believe it more than you. You will be considered not real rather.

[mabbo]

My sister tried to get my mother to play an April fools prank on me this year. She wanted her to send me an email saying "I got your voicemail and I sent the money! I hope that's enough but it was all I had available!"

My mother thought it was a bad idea and didn't want to get involved.

It would have been incredible and I would absolutely have fallen for it.