He wants AI to become strictly regulated so no one can catch up to his stagnating bullshit engine.
Says the dipshit making the tools to commit fraud easier than ever.
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.
Voiceprinting as an identification for wealthy bank clients grew popular more than a decade ago, with customers typically asked to utter a challenge phrase into the phone to access their accounts.
ha, I thought it was just a movie trope
sometimes it feels like banks will use literally anything but recommended practices for multi-factor authentication
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.
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.
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.
TD?
TD Bank, yes.
The Dank
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.
Spoofing cell phone numbers is so easy a literal toddler can do it.
But can you do it detectably? Because that’s just as easy. This isn’t 95
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.
Month later
Oh by the way, just conveniently, we have this new product which can take care of this problem for you.
I am rich so write what I said.
This moron is trying to drum up financial panic so he can hawk his stupid human verification device. The Sphere I think ? Or the Orb ? Whatever. It’s a fucking camera.
Yeah this guy wants to sell ai security dongles real bad
How about some Yubikeys or smart cards instead of something that requires me to scan my retina and share it with Sam Altman
I followed a different post and replaced AI with cocaine, and it still works in this context.
Does anyone actually think he’s a genius? He’s clearly a moron of the highest degree.
I am the system administrator. My voice is my
passwordpassport. Verify me.*passport
Been way too long since I played that game. Amusingly, it’s not easy to get running on Linux (last time I checked, at least)
Yeah, Sam, we know.
I find it really fascinating, how these people think everything is a complete non-issue, unless money is involved. The society can fuck itself, but if their bank account is at risk, then it’s scorched earth time
Does anyone by chance have tips for someone wanting to sound like Mark Hamil Joker via AI? No particular reason…
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.
