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AI Voices Fool Humans, But Brain Responses Differ


People struggle to distinguish between human and AI-generated voices, identifying them correctly only about half the time.

It’s now possible to clone a person’s voice from just a few seconds of recording, and scammers have used this technology to mimic a loved one in distress and trick victims into transferring money. Credit: Neuroscience NewsThe research involved 43 people who were asked to listen to human and AI-generated voices expressing five different emotions: neutral, angry, fear, happy, pleasure. The researchers now plan to study whether personality traits, for example extraversion or empathy, make people more or less sensitive to noticing the differences between human and AI voices.

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