The way AI voice phishing and deepfakes get demonstrated is making people worse at spotting it

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The article argues that common advice for spotting AI voice phishing is flawed because real attacks use real-time voice changers, not text-to-speech artifacts, and the author provides a free demo to educate.

AI voice phishing isn't a cloned voice with a bot doing the talking. It's a human operator running a real time voice changer. Which matters, because every "how to spot a voice phishing / deepfake" tell is a text to speech artifact and none of them survive voice conversion. Disclosure .. I build voice phishing simulation for a living, so I have a horse in this race. But to show exactly how a real time voice changer and faceswap works, I built a free demo so people can hear and see one for themselves .. https://www.callstrike.ai/voice-phishing-simulator (Voice Phishing Simulator) https://www.callstrike.ai/deepfake-security-training (Deepfake Video Simulator) Speak into it and you come back as someone else, live. No signup, capped at 60 seconds, and there's 8 cloud GPUs behind it doing the conversion so expect a queue. Five fixed identities to pick from .. deliberately not your own voice cloned back at you, because that's not the threat. You're hearing what an operator sounds like wearing someone else's voice. We've also seeded artifacts into the output audio so it cant be lifted and used for anything real.
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