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Be careful if you use a voice password for your bank account. Fraud seems to abound with every advance in technology.
The writer of this article in gHacks was able to use an AI generated audio file to access his bank account. Click here to know more.
Peace, CAS
Artificial Intelligence isn’t after your bank account. People are after your bank account. The distinction is important. Artificial Intelligence is a tool, not an initiator. It has been directed to perform a computer action.
I think that geekdom’s point was that AI isn’t the agent here, and semantically the thread title makes it sound like it is.
For example, if someone used a computer to commit fraud, you wouldn’t say that ‘Computers are after your bank account’.
The trick that the phase ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’ uses (not that I’m even remotely saying that you’re trying to trick people!) is related to the fact the the word kill has multiple meanings: it uses kill to mean ‘consciously kill’, and uses the absurdity of the statement to imply that that ‘guns kill people’ must be false, even though ‘guns kill people’ uses the word kill to mean ‘increase the killing of’, not ‘consciously kill’.
Similarly, the phrase ‘AI is after your bank account’ implies that AI is consciously after your bank account. Something such as ‘AI usage increases fraud’ would instead clear up the ambiguity.
I hope that this makes sense.
What you don’t seem to understand is that my post carried the title of a post on Ghacks. I didn’t write it. Martin Brinkman or Ashwin wrote it. Al I attempted to do was share what I thought to be some interesting information.
If any of you who desire to chastise the author’s on gHacks’ feel free to do so by going to their site and post your comments. BTW, “thank you” I meant it in a casual manner, as in nice to have this information, not in an actual way, as in checking the thank you feature.
As far as I’m concerned this whole thing has been a “tempest in a teapot.” I hope this issue is over and done.
Peace, CAS
I understand that my post could have been taken as criticism of your post rather than the article, and so I apologise once again for upsetting you and for not being clearer. I hope that you can accept my apology and understand that I was just trying to help.
As you say, a tempest in a teapot.
It’s been since forever in fora for posts to be misconstrued, glad that’s cleared up now 🙂
About five years ago one of the big brokerages implored me to enroll in their “convenient” voice recognition system so that I wouldn’t have to enter my password to access my account when calling. I declined, but at some point found that when I’d call and tell the voice prompt I wanted to speak to a CSR, it would transfer me directly to the CSR instead of asking me to enter my pw. And the CSR would say something like, “Thank you for using our voice recognition system.” I just went with it. But this report is prompting me to request that they remove voice recognition login on my account. I’m not fearing any imminent breach, and I’d like to see corroborating reports before assuming this is a real risk, but in the meantime why take a chance — especially when voice login isn’t something I really wanted to begin with.
Attached is a screenshot from my Australian Government Pension Account. Every time I open the app, it provides this notification asking for my voiceprint. When I choose later, it kindly tells me “We’ll leave it for now”. The bit about it being more secure than a password or PIN would be laughable if it wasn’t so relentlessly intrusive.
hyppolyte
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