An Arizona mom who fell victim to sick scammers who used AI to clone her daughter’s voice and demanded a $1 million ransom in the fake kidnapping gave emotional testimony before Congress about her …
described in gripping testimony before Congress how the heartless con artists threatened to pump her child’s stomach “so full of drugs” if she didn’t pay their ransom.
DeStefano told the members of the subcommittee on human rights and the law that she was picking up her younger daughter, Aubrey, from dance rehearsal when she got a call from an unknown number. She described how realistic the clone was because, “it wasn’t just her voice, it was her cries, it was her sobs.”“A threatening and vulgar man took the call over. ‘Listen here. I have your daughter. You call anybody, you call the police, I’m gonna pump her stomach so full of drugs. I’m gonna have my way with her. I’m gonna drop her in Mexico. You’ll never see your daughter again,'” an emotional DeStefano recalled, fighting back tears.
“She came to me and told me that Brianna was safe but I did not believe her because I had just spoken to my daughter and I was very sure of her voice and I was very sure of her cries,” she said. When the anguished mom reported the cruel deepfake scam to police, she said they called it a “prank call” and told her nothing could be done since no kidnapping had taken place and no money had been sent.
Several experts also addressed the Senate panel Tuesday, including Aleksander Madry, a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning.
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