"I tried to fool my brother, sort of. Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch, without context or introduction, I played an audio clip of me-deepfake audio of my voice that I'd asked cybersecurity startup Doppel to make. Fake Me's voice sounded distressed, stilted, and just persuasive enough that he narrowed his eyes, scrunched his nose, and asked: "That's AI, right?" My extremely online brother was far from fooled, but he was unsettled."
"You give it a prompt, and that AI agent can then construct a phishing social engineering campaign that hits you specifically on your phone, maybe shoots off an SMS right after that phone call to confirm some things. Of course, you can still do the traditional phishing email...But over the past few months, what's gotten significantly better is the ability to do real-time, synchronous deepfake conversations in an intelligent manner. I can chat with my own deepfake in real-time. It's not scripted, it's dynamic."
Someone played a deepfake audio clip of their own voice beside a skeptical brother, producing a distressed, stilted, and persuasive voice that unsettled him despite recognition as AI. Generative AI-powered deepfakes are rapidly improving and becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Doppel, a cybersecurity startup founded in 2022 by former Uber employees, builds simulation tools that demonstrate social-engineering attacks, train teams, and test vulnerabilities. Doppel can generate phishing campaigns that combine phone calls and follow-up SMS messages, and has developed real-time, synchronous AI voices that can engage dynamically rather than follow scripts. The company shifted focus from crypto impersonations to broader impersonation threats.
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