WASHINGTON - The voice on the phone seemed frighteningly real – an American mother heard her daughter sobbing before a man took over and demanded a ransom.The biggest peril of AI, experts say, is its ability tohanding cyber criminals a cheap and effective technology to propagate disinformation.
“Help me, mom, please help me,” Ms Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona-based mother, heard a voice saying on the other end of the line. “It was never a question of who is this? It was completely her voice… it was the way she would have cried,” Ms DeStefano told a local television station in April.The scammer who took over the call, which came from a number unfamiliar to Ms DeStefano, demanded up to US$1 million .But the terrifying case, now under police investigation, underscored the potential for cyber criminals to misuse AI clones.