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AI Voice Fraud: Three Seconds of Audio Can Clone Anyone

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

AI voice cloning now requires just three seconds of audio to create a convincing fake, enabling fraudsters to impersonate executives and family members. The technology outpaces detection tools, with losses from voice scams projected to hit $1 billion by 2025. Current defenses like voice biometrics and liveness detection struggle against deepfake-quality synthesis.

Meridian48 take
The real story isn't the tech's speed but the lack of regulatory and industry standards to verify voice authenticity in real-time.
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