Absolutely this. You can already use GPT-4 to have a convincing text-based conversation with a target. And audiovisual generative AI is fast reaching the uncanny valley.
Since there is apparently no way to put the genie back in the bottle, everyone needs to start thinking about how to authenticate themselves and others. How do you know the person calling is your daughter? Is that text message really from the new bookkeeper at the plumbing firm who just asked you to change the wire transfer address? She seems legit and knows all sorts of things about the project.
Since there is apparently no way to put the genie back in the bottle, everyone needs to start thinking about how to authenticate themselves and others. How do you know the person calling is your daughter? Is that text message really from the new bookkeeper at the plumbing firm who just asked you to change the wire transfer address? She seems legit and knows all sorts of things about the project.
Things are going to get very bad for a while.