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A new Chrome extension can reliably detect AI-generated voices


Hiya has launched a free Chrome extension to detect deepfake voices. The Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector listens to voices in video or audio streams and assigns an authenticity score, indicating whether it’s real or fake.

Just in time for the 2024 US elections, the call screening and fraud detection company Hiya has launched a free Chrome extension to spot deepfake voices. I pulled up a YouTube video about the blues pioneer Howlin’ Wolf that I suspected used AI narration, and it assigned it a 1/100 authenticity score, declaring it likely a deepfake. “It’s clear social media sites have a huge responsibility to alert users when the content they are consuming has a high chance of being an AI deepfake,” Hiya President Kush Parikh wrote in a press release.

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