The Dangers of AI Voice Clones
A California mother was scammed out of $5,400 after AI voice-cloning technology mimicked her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping. Researchers have found that voices similar to one's own are more per…
A California mother was scammed out of $5,400 after AI voice-cloning technology mimicked her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping. Researchers have found that voices similar to one's own are more per…
A developer building Recoverflow's voice agent for collections calls found that a one-way script would fail because it couldn't respond to customer replies. Using ElevenLabs' Conversational AI, the de…
A small testing company, VeriTest, with only 15 people and a spreadsheet, won a $1.8M contract against QualiGuard, a competitor with 200 people and an AI testing platform claiming 97.2% coverage. Veri…
Atoms, a new vibe coding tool built by the team behind MetaGPT, uses a multi-agent AI system to handle the entire product lifecycle—from market research and app development to deployment and marketing…
Clara, an AI phone agent for local businesses, answers calls, books appointments, and follows up with leads 24/7. The service targets small businesses that cannot afford a receptionist, offering a 7-d…
Backboard has introduced a single-parameter memory system for LLMs, replacing the typical multi-step pipeline of embedding extraction, vector storage, and similarity search. By setting `memory` to `"A…
A Martinez mother wired $5,400 to scammers after they used AI to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call. Deborah Del Mastro spent five hours following the scammer's demands before di…
The article argues that the primary threat to software developers is not advanced AI that outperforms them, but rather mediocre AI that is "good enough" for cost-cutting executives to justify reducing…