Phone scammers are using faked AI voices. Here’s how to protect yourself

Never before has it been easier to clone a human voice. New AI tools can take a voice sample, process it, copy it, and say anything in the voice of the original. It’s been a thing since as early as 2018, but modern tools can do it faster, more accurately, and with greater ease.

Don’t believe it? OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, presented a project this year that showed how it’s possible to clone a voice with nothing more than a 15-second recording.

OpenAI’s...