Media Duped by AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Roger Stone?
This post originally appeared on Frank Report, written by Frank Parlato, and was republished with permission.
Welcome to the world of AI.
In what may be a precedent-setting example of AI voice technology duping the media, the news site Mediaite published a pair of stories last month about audio it reported was the voice of Roger Stone, an influential advisor to Donald Trump and a frequent target of the outlet.
AI detection software and several experts say the 19-second audio is AI-generated voice cloning, not Stone’s voice.
Voice cloning is AI technology that creates synthetic copies of human voices after analyzing recordings of that person to mimic tone,