{"id":29857,"date":"2025-01-07T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:34:36","slug":"youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was chilling to hear \u2018my voice\u2019 repeating lies \u2013 and to discover that deepfake audio is a growing threat to democracy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My brother held his phone up to my ear. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna find this creepy,\u201d he warned. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DECABnuqg0z\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram reel<\/a> showing a teenage boy at a rally featured a voiceover in the style of a news broadcast. A calm, female voice, with an almost imperceptible Mancunian accent, said: \u201cThe recent outcry from a British student has become a powerful symbol of a deepening crisis in the UK\u2019s educational system.\u201d I sat bolt upright, my eyes wide open.<\/p>\n<p>As a presenter for a YouTube news channel, I was used to hearing my voice on screen. Only this wasn\u2019t me \u2013 even if the voice was <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fxiQYD5vVLs?si=CjtL60xsT-2apcOk\">indisputably mine<\/a>. \u201cThey are forcing us to learn about Islam and Muhammad in school,\u201d it continued. \u201cTake a listen. This is disgusting.\u201d It was chilling to hear my voice associated with far-right propaganda \u2013 but more than that, as I dug further into how this scam is perpetrated, I discovered just how far-reaching the consequences of fake audio can be.<\/p>\n<p>Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/07\/ai-clone-voice-far-right-fake-audio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was chilling to hear \u2018my voice\u2019 repeating lies \u2013 and to discover that deepfake audio is a growing threat to democracy Georgina Findlay is a writer and presenter at the YouTube channel TLDR News My brother held his phone up to my ear. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna find this creepy,\u201d he warned. An Instagram reel showing &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/youre-gonna-find-this-creepy-my-ai-cloned-voice-was-used-by-the-far-right-could-i-stop-it-georgina-findlay\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018You\u2019re gonna find this creepy\u2019: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it? | Georgina Findlay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}