Apr 4, 2024

Hany Farid Speaks to NPR About Voice Cloning

From NPR

Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse

By Dara Kerr

All you need is a 15-second recording of someone’s voice to recreate an eerily good AI version using a new tool from Open AI. Even the company says there’s great potential for misuse...

HANY FARID: Here we are driving the train at 100 miles an hour.

KERR: Hany Farid is a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He says scammers are already having a field day with voice cloning.

FARID: I can create scams where I call somebody’s parents and say, Mom, Dad - sounds like their son or their daughter - I’ve been hurt. You need to send money...

Read the transcript or listen to the podcast episode. 

Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.

hany farid in front of a computer
Hany Farid (Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small for the School of Information)

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April 8, 2024