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A wave of phone scams in France involves scammers using AI-powered voice cloning. After recording victims' voices during silent calls, fraudsters use AI to clone these voices and impersonate victims, deceiving their contacts into transferring money. This malicious use of AI has led to financial and privacy harms.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves an AI system that processes recorded voice samples to generate a cloned voice, which is then used by scammers to impersonate victims and request money from their contacts. This use of AI directly leads to harm through fraud and deception, fitting the definition of an AI Incident. The article describes realized harm (the scam) and the AI's pivotal role in enabling it.[AI generated]