Does Berkeley Know?

From SFGATE:

On Monday, tech investor Martin Casado posted a warning on social media about an AI voice-cloning phone scam he said his own father nearly fell for. Casado’s father received a call from someone claiming to be — and sounding just like — Casado, who said he was “in jail after a car accident and needed $10k bail,” Casado wrote in a post on X, formerly called Twitter. “He was headed to the bank but decided to call me just in case (lucky I picked up, I'm in Japan).”

This type of tech-enabled phone scam was the subject of a hearing before the Senate Aging Committee last Thursday. In this type of con, scammers generate a clone of someone’s voice by feeding recordings from phishing phone calls or public social media videos into an artificial intelligence-based system. They can then use those AI clones to call your loved ones, impersonating you, to ask for something (often financial assistance).

Several voice cloning tools are readily available online. The maker of one such tool, Lovo, says it uses an algorithm to break voice recordings into tiny chunks of audio. Those chunks are used to create a model that can turn user-inputted text into a new audio clip using a voice that Lovo says will sound nearly identical to the original speaker’s...

Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ai-phone-scam-fbi-advice-18509701.php.

When yours truly looked up Lovo, he got the image above AND the one below, which seems to tout UC-Berkeley as some kind of endorser. Does Berkeley know?

Does Berkeley want its name associated with a program which is great for scamming? Just asking...