A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more
This is a perfect example in the difference between proper #ai technology … Jay Meier : Voice biometrics has never really been shown to be terribly effective. I know banks have used it and claimed it's great. … Tweets: Paul Armstrong / @paul__armstrong : The bank voice cloning is a massively serious issue that financial institutions need to find a response to. https://twitter.com/... Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : We definitely don't want to slow down this tech and risk missing out on all the benefits https://twitter.com/... Steve Skojec / @steveskojec : Places like India and China, where regulations go to die, will receive the massive economic benefits of any collective western litigation freak out over AI. And all the dangers will still come to pass anyway. https://twitter.com/... Kenny Wassus / @kgw : spent a lot of time w @JoannaStern trying to get her replaced by AI. fun project to produce, fun edit, and i was able to sneak in lots of ai/robot pop-culture deep cuts https://www.youtube.com/... Christina Binkley / @binkleyonstyle : Uh oh. Chase Bank couldn't tell the difference between Joanna and her AI -generated voice, and put AI right through to customer service. https://twitter.com/... Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : Well... that's not good. Super-interesting experiment from @JoannaStern -> https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Voice biometrics is a technology that's gotten obsoleted before it could even catch on. Smart technology that only responds to your voice is now insecure given AI voice cloning now exists. Crazy to think both technologies ussd to be science fiction. https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok. We're all going to be just fine. My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI: https://www.wsj.com/... Jeremy Olshan / @jolshan : When an AI version @JoannaStern showed up on our team's weekly Google hangout, she interrupted people with pointless non sequiturs. In other words, the AI was a humorless imitation of too many video attendees, and nothing like the genius of real Joanna. https://www.wsj.com/... Derek T. Muller / @derektmuller : We're a few years away from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” for all online contact. https://twitter.com/... Sam Gregory / @samgregory : Couldn't agree more with quote in great @joannastern explainer: “you can't make everyone an AI detective” @witnessorg consultations say don't devolve responsibility to every individual, and that its getting easier to “carpet-bomb the internet with it” https://www.wsj.com/...