Digital sound-alikes: Difference between revisions

+ As of 2019 Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology has been used for crimes + <ref name="WaPo2019">
(+ == Documented digital sound-alike attacks == + 'An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft', a 2019 Washington Post article)
(+ As of 2019 Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology has been used for crimes + <ref name="WaPo2019">)
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When it cannot be determined by human testing, is some synthesized recording a simulation of some person's speech, or is it a recording made of that person's actual real voice, it is a '''digital sound-alike'''.
When it cannot be determined by human testing, is some synthesized recording a simulation of some person's speech, or is it a recording made of that person's actual real voice, it is a '''digital sound-alike'''.  
 
As of '''2019''' Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology '''has been used for crimes'''.<ref name="WaPo2019">
{{cite web
|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/
|title= An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft
|last= Drew
|first= Harwell
|date= 2019-09-04
|website=
|publisher=
|access-date= 2019-09-089
|quote= }}
</ref>


Living people can defend¹ themselves against digital sound-alike by denying the things the digital sound-alike says if they are presented to the target, but dead people cannot. Digital sound-alikes offer criminals new disinformation attack vectors and wreak havoc on provability.  
Living people can defend¹ themselves against digital sound-alike by denying the things the digital sound-alike says if they are presented to the target, but dead people cannot. Digital sound-alikes offer criminals new disinformation attack vectors and wreak havoc on provability.