Not sci-fi, but real life: Samsung introduced a voice-cloning feature (fave.co/3yNCCGC) for their new Galaxy S phones this week. Train the Bixby mobile assistant on your S23, S23+, or S23 Ultra phone, and it'll mimic you during calls. This successfully duplication is sold as a way to answer calls whenever you're unable to talk-you instead type answers and the phone reads them to the other party in your voice.
But there's a flip side to this stuff of sci-fi dreams. Al-trained voice imitation can be also used for nefarious purposes, as Motherboard demonstrated the very same day as Samsung's news. Using Al-generated imitations of his voice (fave.co/3ZWtb9S), writer Joseph Cox breezed through his bank's automated voice verification system.
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