Illinois Attorney General warns against scams cloning voices of loved…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — You may have heard of scammers pretending to be your relatives, but some scammers are starting to use technology to sound even more like them.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is raising awareness of phone scammers using Artificial Intelligence to mimic the voices of loved ones.

The Federal Trade Commission also warned of these scams last year, and President Joe Biden signed a executive order in October to “protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud and deception by establishing standards and best practices for detecting AI-generated content” according to an official release from the White House.

Scammers can use just short snippets with someone’s voice from a video posted online and with the help of artificial intelligence software, create a near-duplicate sound designed to scam.

“These criminals are very good and convincing at what they do,”…