Fraudsters in China are using artificial intelligence (AI) to clone people’s voices and scam their relatives and friends.
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Police in central China’s Hubei province recently revealed a case in which an elderly woman was tricked by an AI-generated version of her grandson.
The woman, surnamed Liu, told China Central Television that she received the phone call from her grandson’s home landline on April 28.
Liu said he was sobbing and told her he had injured someone’s head in a supermarket. The injured person had been hospitalised and was demanding 20,000 yuan (US$2,800) in compensation.
He said he was in a police station and needed the money to be released.
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He also begged her not to tell his mother; otherwise he would “jump from a building”.