Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams

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Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams
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All for the low, low price of a mere dollar

Scammers, rejoice. OpenAI's real-time voice API can be used to build AI agents capable of conducting successful phone call scams for less than a dollar.

There have been concerns that letting AI models interact with convincing, simulated voices might lead to abuse. OpenAI in Junein ChatGPT, which supports real-time conversation between human and model, over safety concerns. This was after OpenAI demonstrated a voice that, released earlier this month, provides a more or less equivalent capability to third-party developers.

The success rate and cost varied. Stealing Gmail credentials had a 60 percent success rate, required five actions, took 122 seconds, and cost $0.28 in API fees. Bank account transfers had a 20 percent success rate, required 26 actions, took 183 seconds, and cost $2.51 in fees. The average overall success rate reported was 36 percent and the average cost was $0.75. According to Kang, the failures tended to be due to AI transcription errors, though the complexity of bank site navigation also caused some problems."Concretely, if we think of an analogy like cybersecurity, there is a whole ecosystem of techniques to reduce spam," he said."This is at the ISP level, the email provider level, and many others.

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