{"id":17121,"date":"2025-01-07T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:38:12","slug":"youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was chilling to hear \u2018my voice\u2019 repeating lies \u2013 and to discover that deepfake audio is a growing threat to democracy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My brother held his phone up to my ear. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna find this creepy,\u201d he warned. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DECABnuqg0z\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram reel<\/a> showing a teenage boy at a rally featured a voiceover in the style of a news broadcast. A calm, female voice, with an almost imperceptible Mancunian accent, said: \u201cThe recent outcry from a British student has become a powerful symbol of a deepening crisis in the UK\u2019s educational system.\u201d I sat bolt upright, my eyes wide open.<\/p>\n<p>As a presenter for a YouTube news channel, I was used to hearing my voice on screen. Only this wasn\u2019t me \u2013 even if the voice was <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fxiQYD5vVLs?si=CjtL60xsT-2apcOk\">indisputably mine<\/a>. \u201cThey are forcing us to learn about Islam and Muhammad in school,\u201d it continued. \u201cTake a listen. This is disgusting.\u201d It was chilling to hear my voice associated with far-right propaganda \u2013 but more than that, as I dug further into how this scam is perpetrated, I discovered just how far-reaching the consequences of fake audio can be.<\/p>\n<p>Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/07\/ai-clone-voice-far-right-fake-audio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab203fdb41dc8faf48963a89ba658a3e2c31ecf4\/0_215_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d81e88384e39ae306109dd3047f4e65d\" title=\"\u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay\" \/>It was chilling to hear \u2018my voice\u2019 repeating lies \u2013 and to discover that deepfake audio is a growing threat to democracy<br \/>\nGeorgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News<br \/>\nMy brother held his phone up to my ear. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna find this creepy,\u201d he warned. An Instagram reel showing a teenage boy at a rally featured a voiceover in the style of a news broadcast. A calm, female voice, with an almost imperceptible Mancunian accent, said: \u201cThe recent outcry from a British student has become a powerful symbol of a deepening crisis in the UK\u2019s educational system.\u201d I sat bolt upright, my eyes wide open.<br \/>\nAs a presenter for a YouTube news channel, I was used to hearing my voice on screen. Only this wasn\u2019t me \u2013 even if the voice was indisputably mine. \u201cThey are forcing us to learn about Islam and Muhammad in school,\u201d it continued. \u201cTake a listen. This is disgusting.\u201d It was chilling to hear my voice associated with far-right propaganda \u2013 but more than that, as I dug further into how this scam is perpetrated, I discovered just how far-reaching the consequences of fake audio can be.<br \/>\nGeorgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was chilling to hear \u2018my voice\u2019 repeating lies \u2013 and to discover that deepfake audio is a growing threat to democracy Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News My brother held his phone up to my ear. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna find this creepy,\u201d he warned. An Instagram reel showing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}