Are AI powered scams becoming impossible for normal people to detect?

[Sinead_47]

This article about AI voice cloning and deepfake scams was probably the most unsettling thing I read this week.

The examples already sound convincing enough to fool tired, stressed or elderly people in emotional situations.

What worries me most is that humans evolved to trust familiar voices and faces instinctively. Once those signals become easily fakeable at scale, normal social trust starts breaking down.

Do people think society adapts quickly enough to AI scams or are we heading toward a genuinely dangerous period of confusion and manipulation?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ai-deepfake-scams-2026

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ai-deepfake-scams-2026

[Omega]

Voice cloning scares me far more than fake images honestly.

Hearing a family member sounding distressed triggers immediate emotional reactions

[QuantumKnight]

Older people are going to be targeted heavily by this stuff unfortunately

[Myles]

I think people eventually become more sceptical of all digital communication generally

[Cass82]

The terrifying part is that verification systems also rely on voices and faces increasingly

[FairDos72]

This feels similar to early internet phishing.

At first people trust everything, then gradually society develops defensive habits

[RedKnight]

Part of me worries constant fake content eventually damages trust in real evidence too