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Before this episode ends, you’ll hear my voice get replaced by an AI clone—and I’m betting you won’t notice when it happens. If you do catch it, drop a comment and tell everyone what moment you think the swap happened. Because right now, a stranger can lift just a few seconds of your voice—from TikTok, a podcast clip, even a voicemail—and make your family believe you’re in danger. It’s called a virtual kidnapping scam. In this episode of Zero Signal Shorts, we dig into the real-world horror of AI voice cloning: the mother who heard her child begging for help, the employee who approved millions after hearing his “boss” speak, the WhatsApp call that sounded like a desperate relative but was nothing but lines of code. We unpack how minimal audio is enough to build a fake voice, why our ears trust it, and what you must do right ...