Description: A UK journalist was able to successfully bypass Lloyds Bank's "Voice ID" program to access his bank account using an AI-generated audio of his own voice.
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Incident ID
485
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1
Incident Date
2023-02-22
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Khoa Lam
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vice.com · 2023
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The bank thought it was talking to me; the AI-generated voice certainly sounded the same.
On Wednesday, I phoned my bank’s automated service line. To start, the bank asked me to say in my own words why I was calling. Rather than speak out l…
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