The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: AI Clones Teen Girl’s Voice In Kidnapping Scam

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

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This don't be a donkey, because right now you on some real donkey shit. It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey in the name please, Desi? Absolutely. I have become Donkey of the Day. That's a breakfast club, bitchy. You're a donkey.

Wow, he was trying to sabotage my life. No, no, I'm not. You didn't tell her, you didn't tell her she was supposed to be here. Yes, I did. Anyway, Donkey of the Day for Friday, April 14th is more of a PSA than anything. I feel like I just have to bring some public awareness to this latest scam that is happening. And it's going to be the first of many because humans have mutually assured our own destruction by opening the doors for artificial intelligence.

I know. I know. Technology. You know, Charlamagne, you're old. You have to embrace innovation. Listen to me. Innovation is great. Okay. Anything that can make our lives easier and better. I'm all for it, but artificial intelligence is not going to make our lives easier or better. It's going to make our lives harder and more difficult because one of the

hardest and most difficult things for people to do over the last decade or so is determine what's real and what's not. And ai isn't going to blur the lines between reality and fantasy it's going to erase those lines period case in point uh the story the story i'm about to tell you all of arizona mom uh jennifer de stefano jennifer de stefano was at home minding her business and she got a phone call would you like to know what the phone call was about let's go to cbs5 for the report, please. You don't have the money, both you and your daughter are dead. Warning of close encounters with scammers who used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice. Yeah, this is crazy.

They actually made her believe they had kidnapped her 15-year-old, and then they demanded a ransom. So as on your side, Susan Campbell found out, this is crazy. It doesn't take much of a voice sample to pull this scam off. The phone number was unfamiliar. Jennifer DiStefano almost let it go to voicemail. But her 15-year-old was out of town skiing. Maybe there had been an accident. I pick up the phone and I hear my daughter's voice and it says, Mom, and she's sobbing.

And then I hear a man's voice say put your head back lie down and this man gets on the phone he's like listen here I've got your daughter this is how it's going to go down you call the police you call anybody I'm going to pop her stomach so full of drugs I'm going to have my way with her and I'll drop her off in Mexico and at that moment I just start shaking I'm like what in? In the background, she's going, help me, mom, please help me, help me. And bawling. I never doubted for one second it was her. The person who had supposedly kidnapped Jennifer's daughter demanded money.

He started at a million dollars. I was like, I don't have a million dollars. I'm like, fine, whatever, start my daughter. Then he wants $50,000. Humans, dear humans, how are we okay with this? Okay, how is anybody okay with this? How come we are choosing to be obtuse to what is right around the corner? I don't like any of this AI stuff.

Okay, in fact, my spider senses go off around anybody I see pushing it because I'm like, that person might be an agent. All right, we live in a world right now where people can't even handle fake tweets. So how the hell will we handle AI? If you thought the misinformation campaigns in the 2016 and 2020 elections were nuts imagine what 2024 is gonna look like folks used to take videos and audios and edit them out of context to manipulate people now i can do deep fake videos and have ai simulation that can completely mimic my voice the inflection the emotion and we really want to unleash that evil on this already

stupid ass american society okay which then will impact the world youtube social media the news y'all already running with a bunch of fake stories now what happens when these news outlets start receiving audio leaks of audio leaks of fake ai conversations between world leaders threatening nuclear war fake ai conversations from celebrities saying wild things about different groups right before they have a movie or tv show or book coming out fake ai conversations between co-workers now you're running up on your co-workers because you heard they was talking spicy about you and it's just ai fake ai conversations between your significant other and one of your homies you're gonna think your mate is cheating on you with

your best friend because of ai and human emotions move at the speed of light nobody stops to think about what's real and what's not real it's just all about what you feel we don't filter facts we filter feelings and nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining but no no no y'all need ai once again i'm just raising public awareness because the article i read in the new york post uh fbi agent said the only way to stop it is to raise public awareness now if you're wondering how they are able to even get your voice in the first place listen to uh this man whose name sounds like uh somebody on mortal combat i can't pronounce it sabero kamabadi uh he's a computer science professor at arizona state university he breaks it down you can no longer

trust your ears sabero kamabadi is a computer science professor at ari University he breaks it down you can no longer trust your ears Subaru common potty is a computer science professor at Arizona State who specializes in AI he says voice cloning technology is rapidly improving now there are ways in which you can do this with just three seconds of your voice so with the three seconds it can come extremely close to how exactly you sound and you don't even need any special equipment. I chose a free program for a test and I'm not actually talking. It's a new toy. And, you know, and I think there could be great good uses, but certainly there can be pretty worrisome uses too.

We have all these conversations about secret societies and Illuminati. Let me tell you something. Somebody has been planning this for the last 30 years at least probably longer and they've been patient think about how many decades of data they have on all of us video audio from black planet planet to myspace to facebook to twitter to instagram to tic tac they got us already all right there is no putting the toothpaste back into youtube y'all always having conversations about celebrities being cloned when the reality is they have cloned all of us already. Now, by the way, the situation in Arizona with Jennifer, it's not a one-time thing. It happened to a woman named Beth Royce last month.

And it happened in December to a woman named Chelsea Gates. In both cases, a man called, threatened to kill a family member. In Beth's case, her sister. In Chelsea's case, her mom. And in the background beth and chelsea could hear their relatives crying and begging for help and the men demanded a thousand dollars and of course beth and chelsea sent the money okay i truly don't see how people can't see this coming now fbi agent dan mayo has some tips on what we should be looking out for we

all should be making a note of this because this is about to be our new reality simply because humans can't help themselves. Listen. You got to slow down and diffuse the situation. The FBI's Dan Mayer says scammers who use voice cloning often find their prey on social media. They're going to be looking for public profiles that have as much information as possible on you. And when they get a hold of that, they're going to dig into you. The Federal Trade Commission says scammers will often ask their victims to wire money, send cryptocurrency, or pay the ransom with gift cards. Once the money is gone, it's almost impossible to get it back. The phone numbers coming from an area code that you're not familiar with,

that should be one red flag. Second red flag, international numbers, sometimes they will call from those as well. Third red flag flag they will not allow you to get off the phone and talk to your significant other right that's a problem i'm in this how i started it i don't like any of this ai stuff simply because i know you humans can't handle it i didn't even get into how chat gpt is going to make people less creative and how it's going to totally stop people from really flexing those brain muscles writers in hollywood y'all sure y'all want to go on a strike right now not Not to mention, if you let it, if you let ChatGPT write a job proposal for you, what happens when you actually have to sit with someone and explain that proposal yourself? Not to mention the millions and millions of jobs that are going to be lost. Tech jobs, media jobs, legal industry jobs, paralegals, legal assistants. You're done. Teachers, finance jobs, personal financial advisors, financial analysis, financial analysts.

It's a wrap for you. OK, my advice. Build a wall around Silicon Valley before it's too late. The job in life you save might be your own. Please give all these people already manipulating, manipulating AI to scam folks. The biggest he are. It's tick tock, not tick tock. I know. know i know what i was doing let me just say this the x your execution on the donkey of the day is something to behold is it a read it's amazing i'm reading my reading no i'm impressed like to be excited no i wanted to be no it was a read it's a read

but you're so good at it well thank you i was of it. I was like, wow. I appreciate that. I mean, you were hitting and hitting and hitting. I was like, okay. Thank you. Can't do it without the producer. That is why Charlamagne is here. Thank you. Appreciate that.

You did that. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Taylor, I hope you got that. All right. Now, when we come back, shout to Nala Simone. She ain't here. She a little scared. No, she's not.

This morning we were supposed to be doing our own battle. Our own versus up here. We were supposed to be doing 50 Cent versus Lil Wayne. She's supposed to do a Lil Wayne four-minute mix. I'm doing a four-minute mix. She just sent her mix in. So when we come back, we're going to play a Lil Wayne four minute mix. No, you should play yours first.

No, they're both there. She'll be here 8-19. Well, we're going to flip a coin. Heads or tails, Charlamagne? I know what you want. Which one you want? Heads. Oh my God. Oh my God. And you want tails because you a bottom. I'll bet you it's tails. You a bottom. I'll bet you it's tails.

Oh. It's heads. Mama said you a bottom i'll bet you his tail you're a bottom i bet you his tails oh his head mama said you're a pretty girl all right now let go second i'll go first that's right when we come back open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 i want you guys to listen to both mixes we're having a good time on a friday we're gonna play a four minute little way mix four minute 50 cent mix you guys call decide who is the best artist. It's just a little mini versus you and Nyle. We just have a little fun on a Friday, all right? And since Charlamagne picked heads, I'll be going first. That sounds crazy. What is happening?

What is happening? How did we get here in the name of Jesus? When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Bless them, Lord. Bless them, Lord. The Breakfast Club. Bless them, Lord. Bless them, Lord. The Breakfast Club.