Unless I know who you are, I'm not answering your call. 90% of the time it's a robot and the other 10% can leave a voicemail.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Isn't a voicemail worse for detecting deepfakes because it doesn't require it to dynamically listen and respond?
I'm not personally concerned about getting duped by a deep fake. I just don't want to talk to any robots, solicitors, or scammers.
I have had calls from similar numbers to my own, and seen caller ID’s for people that aren’t contacts. I haven’t picked them up, but the temptation was there to do so.
I'll go one farther - unless it's my doc, my wife, or my boss, I'm neither answering the call nor listening to the voicemail. That's what easily skimmable voicemail transcription is for...
I don't love the privacy implications of transcribed voicemail, ofc, but it's better for my own privacy/threat model than answering the phone to robots, scammers, and etc. It's also a hell of a lot better for my mental health, vs listening to them.
You might know the number. My wife used to live in Kenya and renamed her "Mum"/"Dad" contacts after they once got a call from her stolen phone saying she'd been arrested and they needed to send money for bail.
Same. Life is much better this way
Real kidnappers will not be happy about this as deepfake becomes more prevalent and calls for ransom gets ignored more and more. Do they have union that can go on strike to raise awareness about this?
The real victims here
"Improving" is not a word I would use in this case.
Like that old Invader Zim line.
“You made the fires worse!”
“Worse? Or better?”
Right? Reads like… hey kidnappers, parents hate this one simple trick
This is why code words are important.
As awful as it sounds this needs to be setup between family members. Agree on a phrase or code word to check and make sure they are who they say they are. This is already common when it comes to alarm system monitoring companies, got to make sure the intruder isn't the one answering the phone and telling them false alarm.
Techbros be like "but what if it can be used to resurrect dead actors?".
Not even necessarily dead actors. They used AI to bring young Luke Skywalker back in The Book of Boba Fett. And it was not great, but it was serviceable. Now give it 10 years.
Ohh, well that totally makes all this worthwhile then.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to suggest that at all. I think it's appalling.
The 'hostage-taker' will never be able to duplicate my family's grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won't care how it "sounds"...
"we have Face/Off at home"
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