I scammed my bank. All it took was an AI voice generator and a phone call.

I may be a tech reporter, but I am not tech savvy. Something breaks, I turn it off and back on, and then I give up. But even I was able to deepfake my own bank with relative ease.

Generative AI has made it way easier to impersonate people’s voices. For years, there have been deepfakes of politicians, celebrities, and the late pope made to sow disinformation on social media. Lately, hackers have been able to deepfake…