Yeah, Sam, we know.

I mean, download xtts2 and feed a six-second clip of Mark Hamill's voice into it. Altman isn't wrong that it's extremely easy these days and a massive security hole.

How about some Yubikeys or smart cards instead of something that requires me to scan my retina and share it with Sam Altman

Nope.

Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.

Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.

I'll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn't even the only issue I had with them.

1. Create a problem
2. Sell a solution

I am the system administrator. My voice is my password. Verify me.

"Hey guys, watch out for this torment nexus. It could be pretty scary!"

So are you going to stop building it then?

"...No."

"Did I mention how powerful my products are? Pleeeaaase don't give me money!"

You missed the part where they lie about dropping the database.

Does anyone actually think he's a genius? He's clearly a moron of the highest degree.

Oh he seriously needs to shut up.

He spends his entire time now telling everybody how a product, he is insisting on building, is going to kill us all.

You would have thought that if you were building a doomsday bomb but didn't want to die it'd be pretty easy to just stop building said bomb. But nope everyday he continues making it more and more destructive.

Yeah he's invented the webcam, I suppose we merely have to be thankful that it isn't another train.

1. A solution to your problem already exists and has existed for decades
2. Create a problem
3. Create an unnecessary ugly overhyped solution to the problem

There's no way that the phone network has enough fidelity to be able to accurately transmit your voice anyway. People who sound similar to you will be able to get in.

So don't call them if you've got the flu or anything.

Yes it's rather like Pablo Escobar going "don't do drugs kids".

I mean it's a valid concern. He's also nowhere near the first to voice it. I attended a presentation from a Microsoft exec who explained that Microsoft had already developed very powerful voice mimicking technology, well ahead of anything public at the time. It required only a few seconds of speech before it could fully replicate your voice. But their ethics board or whatever stopped them, due to the massive fraud risks. Nowadays I think they've adapted the tech to voice recognition used in Teams instead.

Of course, MS wasn't the only one working on this and other people have since published these solutions, so the cat's out of the bag now.

What Mark Hamill Joker fan doesn't have their own Mark Hamill Joker impression? Screw AI, just do the voice like we've all been doing for 30+ years.

Month later

Oh by the way, just conveniently, we have this new product which can take care of this problem for you.

I argued with my old bank for ages about this and they continued to insist enabling it on my account was a great idea.

The film Sneakers showed the world why voice ID was a massive security hole and an all-around crappy idea back in 1992, and some idiots are still insisting it's a good idea in 2025 when it's only become astronomically easier to beat than Robert Redford and friends demonstrated.

In my case, I've been doing radio, podcasting, and other voice work for a long time and as a result there are hundreds and hundreds of hours of my voice freely available out there. People can cut and paste me saying "my voice is my passport, verify me" or anything else they like together in Audacity, no AI needed, and fool any telephone-based audio security computer on the planet with it. And explaining this in-person to the branch manager of my former bank elicited nothing more than the blankest expression I'd seen since the pet goldfish I had as a kid.

Exactly. It always seemed like something that would be broken and used as an excuse that it was my fault they didn't secure their shit