I was, like, completely freaked out, Greene told The Washington Post on Sunday. It's this eerie moment where you feel like you're listening to yourself. He said colleagues pointed out the likeness in emails and texts. The lawsuit, filed last month in Santa Clara County, California, alleges Google violated his rights by creating a product that mimics his voice without payment or permission.
The current and former police officials say they commend the Legislature for what they describe as tremendous progress in fighting this epidemic, but argue that several other priorities need attention, including cracking down on deepfake and artificial intelligence voice scams and passing bill S7382/A8051. Scammers are becoming more sophisticated in the era of AI, using deepfake voice cloning and digital impersonation to mimic the voices and images of people victims know.
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Well, the latter might be common among the workforce's youngest members, as a number of recruiters have been pointing out a generational gap in phone etiquette. "I just found out that Gen Z don't answer the phone when they answer the phone," one recruiter explained in a recent TikTok post, now with more than 1 million views. "I think it's so weird, it's so awkward."
Her digital seance was not cathartic, nor did it give her any closure. After an emotional two hours of hearing her father's voice from the machine, which she dubbed Dadbot, she ended the conversation, never to interact with it again. "Saying goodbye to Dadbot was surprisingly hard," she says. "When I finished and turned it off, I spent the rest of the day feeling like I had done something wrong."