London CNN —“Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned.
Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just three seconds of audio found in, for example, a video the person has posted online.
These types of scams have the potential to “catch millions out,” Starling Bank said in a press release Wednesday.
“People regularly post content online which has recordings of their voice, without ever imagining it’s making them more vulnerable to fraudsters,” Lisa Grahame, chief information security officer at Starling Bank, said in the press release.
As AI becomes increasingly adept at mimicking human voices, concerns are mounting about its potential to harm people by, for example, helping criminals access their bank accounts, and spread misinformation.
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