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