They scrape a voice
A 30-second TikTok video, an Instagram reel, a WhatsApp voice note shared in a group — that's all the AI needs to clone someone you love.
That's what my father lost. To one phone call. From a voice he had known for thirty years.
The voice was my cousin's. The story was an accident. The hospital noise in the background was perfect. AI cloned 30 seconds of his TikTok audio — and my father never had a chance to doubt it.
Read the full storyA 30-second TikTok video, an Instagram reel, a WhatsApp voice note shared in a group — that's all the AI needs to clone someone you love.
An accident. A hospital. A police station. The voice is your son. The background noise is perfect. There's no time to think — that's the point.
A mobile wallet. A bank transfer. An unknown account. Three minutes after the call, the money is already withdrawn from the other end. There is no recovery.