Sounding the Alarm: UF Cybersecurity Expert Exposes Audio Deepfake

Audio deepfakes are becoming ubiquitous – blurring the line between fact and fiction – but UF researchers are working to develop methods to help the public navigate this new technological terrain.

We’ve all heard about audio deepfakes and voice cloning or have even fallen prey to them – you receive a phone call from someone claiming to have been in an accident or arrested, who then hands the phone over to a supposed lawyer or even someone impersonating a law enforcement official seeking immediate payment.

“Deepfake voices are challenging a fundamental way we have come to understand the world and interact with the people in our lives,” said Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., a professor in UF’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering. “We rely on our senses, and now, deepfakes challenge the ways in which we interact with the world around us.”

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