Irish Lad Clones His Voice With AI, Tricks His Parents

Check the 6-minute video on YouTube 👀

It shows CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan calling his parents in Ireland and having a conversation with them using an AI-generated voice.

Donie concludes…

My parents knew something was off, but ultimately, they still fell for it.

Scary to think that scammers could clone your voice – via audio of you posted online somewhere – then call up your loved ones and ask them to send money to “your” bank account or something 😱

But of course there are also some exciting applications of this technology.

For example, here’s a video where someone uses software called Descript to clone his own voice and read out a video transcript generated by ChatGPT 🤖…

Skip to the 4:20 mark to hear the cloned voice. It’s impressive.

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