ha, I thought it was just a movie trope

I wish. My bank has been trying to get me to do that shit for years when I call in.

"YoUr VoIcE iS yOuR pAsSwOrD" - no, my fucking password is my password, and this voice print shit was an obvious security hole from day 1, which is why I always answered that I didn't consent to their bullshit.

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.

When I was complaining about the 10 pieces of paper, each needing a signature and a stamp, just to close one of my bank accounts, the clerk has informed me that some of their procedures has switched to an electronic signature instead. I was pumped! Until he finished the rest of the sentence. By the electronic signature he meant the squigly line, just on a touchscreen.

Some people strive to achieve the pure zen. At that moment I've achieved pure cringe instead.

It's strange though, because that same bank has an excellent API and batch processing available.

My bank uses that and personal info, and I have to be calling from a registered number.

Even ISPs do this where I am. You don't have to utter anything specifically but if they detect your voice being drastically different from what they have on file, they'll lock you out before you even talk to a real person. Not sure how I feel about it tbh

I am guessing they were trying to explain how a large number of banks are using the company PinDrop Security and did a really bad job of it.

Yes. He would really like you and the investors to know how good his fraud device is, but you have to promise not to use it to do crimes. Also, if you are afraid of his fraud device he would like to sell you fraud device protection.

Yeah this guy wants to sell ai security dongles real bad

1. Create a problem
2. Sell a solution

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

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

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.

the problem is "he" isn't the only one building AI. If it wasn't openAI it would have been someone else. And soon almost anyone with small business level of resources will be able to have an AI platform at their disposal.

I'm not saying the guy is a paragon of virtue or anything, but a voice from within the industry should be valuable to get legislators on board to do something about it. Not that I have great faith in them either.

I had to call into my bank recently and had to listen through what was effectively an ad to sign up for their voice authentication service. All the while I'm thinking, "How dare you implement this crap when you don't even support TOTP or security keys."

I'm actually really annoyed I can't do two factor

2 Factor 2 Furious

Failing upwards.

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

*passport

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.

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.