passinghere t1_j9obi0b wrote on February 23, 2023 at 12:17 PM

> Imitating someone's voice is always going to raise fears about possible scams or other crimes should someone steal the phone and gain access to it, but Samsung notes that the feature does inform callers that there are speaking to Bixby and not the person they rang.

Only until it gets hacked and this warning gets removed

RandomComputerFellow t1_j9oj6gy wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:29 PM

I think this will lift identity theft onto a next level. When your phone is hacked. Hacker not only have your contacts, your conversations, access to your email inbox, your SMS inbox, your scanned documents, your password manager, your online banking, your payment information, your private photos but also your voice to say whatever they want.

asdaaaaaaaa t1_j9okglg wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:40 PM

When was the last time you used your actual voice to verify something? I don't know a single institution (bank, government, etc) that would even notice or say anything if I "changed" my voice.

RandomComputerFellow t1_j9om0z8 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:52 PM

Well, I don't speak about my bank. I speak about stuff like calling my grandmother pretending that I have problems and desperately need to raise a huge amount of money or calling my secretary to ask her to make a quick wire transfer to a company in Russia because we just made a business deal with them.

In a country where Indian call centers can steal billions of dollars from people by pretending to be the IRS or Microsoft Support and you need to send them Google Play Gift cards to pay your taxes, do you really doubt people would fall for this?

Chamilton1337 t1_j9p55io wrote on February 23, 2023 at 4:07 PM

For my bank in Canada I activated the voice recognition option

darkkite t1_j9pzm52 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 7:15 PM

fidelity offers this as well as other banks. never used it but it exists

epic_null t1_j9r2ly0 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 11:19 PM

I think I was calling about my retirement fund when I was enrolled and had to explicitly be removed from it

jepvr t1_j9pl5uh wrote on February 23, 2023 at 5:46 PM

I love that the excuse is that it informs the person that this isn't the person it's imitating and is actually a computer. Then... why even imitate the voice? You're making it worse than just saying "______ isn't able to answer, but this is her assistant Bixby and" etc. That gives you the same functionality but is so much less of a WTF.

Eric_the_Barbarian t1_j9oyhne wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:23 PM

Holy shit, why would you even want it to sound like you in the first place though?