The best things to stop these AI voice schemes, is to agree on a family password. The cloned AI voice will not known it.

That's a great idea. What do you use as your family password?

Nice try, but our password is the same as the password to my HN account, and for security HN automatically censors your password if you type it in a comment. See: *******

For any Hacker News users not aware of this security policy, it’s documented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502985

Yes, the bash.org IRC archive archive is hilarious:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230620135556/http://bash.org/?...

Joke's on you, now I know your password is 7 chars, but more importantly, I also know your password is not 7 stars.

hunter2 my hunter2!

*********

Oh yeah! Neat.

This thread just gave me a pang of nostalgia. I think the first time I saw this interaction was in an AOL chat room, or maybe an early MUD. I miss the good old silly internet…

Nice try.

Hey "nice try" is my family password too!