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Guardian

Warning social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone voices

Guardian
Summary
Nutrition label

62% Informative

Scammers look for videos that have been uploaded online and need only a few seconds of audio to replicate how the target talks.

They then call or send voicemails to friends and family, asking them to send money urgently.

28% of people had been targeted by an AI voice cloning scam at least once in the past year .

VR Score

59

Informative language

55

Neutral language

65

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

Affiliate links

no affiliate links