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Voice AI Has Passed the Uncanny Valley and Evades Detection
“We're pretty close to someone not being able to detect it at all, and you could say, well, there's an uncanny valley, But I think even now we're up the like back slope of the uncanny valley when it comes to the voice stuff. Like many people will go through a f…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 31:17 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Assertion Supported
Commercial Voice AI Therapists Lack Meaningful Scientific Research Backing
“The thing I can say for sure is they're being introduced without any scientific research showing, I mean, I found one study on voice therapy, one controlled study that had been done, And there are voice therapists on the market right now.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 9:02 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Assertion Supported
Scammers Are Deploying Voice AI to Automate Fraud Victim Filtering
“It's already being deployed for scams as we speak, including volume scams where you can just use AIs to call people all the time and then narrow down the number of marks and then send it to a human operator to close the deal basically.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 40:21 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Unexpected AI Encounters in Job Interviews and Meetings Will Surge
“I know people who have gone to job interviews, to meetings, where they encounter an AI when they do not expect to encounter an AI, and I think we're gonna see more and more of that in the next months, years.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 28:49 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ratliff's AI Voice Clone Line Receives 30 to 40 Scam Calls Daily
“It gets 30, 40 a day right now.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 5:59 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Assertion Supported
Ratliff's Autonomous Voice Clone Successfully Consulted a Lawyer
“Including my friend Chris, who's a lawyer, who, I sent it with actual legal questions about the show, and he answered them very succinctly.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 21:36 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
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