AI-generated audio that mimics humans can be so convincing that people can't tell the difference a quarter of the time – even when they're trained to identify faked voices, a new study claims.

Imagine the following scenario: A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day ...

As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic content online—tech companies have rushed to roll ...