Is Technology Spying On You? New AI Could Prevent Eavesdropping

Science -- Big Brother is listening. A new technology, called Neural Voice Camouflage, now offers a defense. It generates custom audio noise in the background as you talk, confusing the artificial intelligence (AI) that transcribes our recorded voices. ... Bo Li, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who has worked on audio adversarial attacks, was impressed that the new approach worked even against the fortified ASR system.

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