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Seattle crosswalk signals with deepfake Bezos audio may have been hacked with just a cellphone
Instead of the little robotic voice that tells you to wait until it's safe to cross, at least five intersections in Seattle last week played the voice of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Tech experts say it was likely a product of generative artificial intelligence, or GAI.
Instead of the little robotic voice that tells you to wait until it's safe to cross, at least five intersections in Seattle last week played something like this: "Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos. In Silicon Valley it was reported that some crosswalk signals played recordings that sounded like Meta's Mark Zuckerburg and Tesla's Elon Musk. In December, something similar happened in South Lake Union when a construction road sign was hacked to display an anti-CEO message.
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