WARNING: DEEPFAKING OTHERS WITHOUT CONSENT IS ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL. THIS EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED WITH MY OWN VOICE AND IMMEDIATE DEBRIEFING.

The Experiment: Voice cloning technology (ElevenLabs, etc.) takes only 30 seconds of audio to clone a voice perfectly. I trained an AI on my own podcast recordings. Then, I wrote a script. Then, I called my mom using the AI voice to see if she would notice.

The Objective: To test the "Security" of human relationships. Do we recognize our loved ones by their soul, or just their sound waves?

> STEP 1: TRAINING THE CLONE

I uploaded 5 minutes of me talking about tech. The software processed it in roughly 2 minutes.

Testing the output: I typed "Hello, this is a test."

Audio plays. My jaw drops. It has my cadence. It has my slight vocal fry. It even pauses where I would pause. It is not 100% me, but it is 95% me on a bad phone connection.

> STEP 2: THE CALL SCRIPT

I couldn't have a dynamic conversation (latency is too high). I had to leave a voicemail or control the conversation strictly. I decided to try a short, live interaction using "Text-to-Speech" typing as fast as I could, claiming I had a "bad signal" to excuse delays.

> STEP 3: THE CALL

MOM: "Hello?" AI ME: "Hey Mom. It's me." MOM: "Oh, hey honey! I wasn't expecting you to call. Everything okay?" AI ME: "Yeah. Just work. Busy. Wanted to say hi." MOM: "You sound a little tired. Are you eating enough?" AI ME: "I am eating. Just tired. Bad signal here." MOM: "Okay. Well, guess what found in the attic today? Your old yearbook." AI ME: (Typing frantically...) "That is crazy. Which year?" MOM: "Middle school. The one with the bad haircut. Ha!"

It was working. She had no idea. The "Bad Signal" excuse covered the robotic pauses. The tonal infection of the AI was casual enough.

> THE BREAKING POINT

I decided to push it. I wanted to see if the AI could handle emotion.

AI ME: "Mom, I love you. You are the best." MOM: (Pause) "What's wrong? You never say it like that."

Busted.

It wasn't the voice quality. It was the phrasing. The AI delivered "I love you" with a flatness, a weird lack of specific context. My mom knows my "I love you" usually comes at the end of a call, or sounds different.

I immediately spoke with my real voice.

Real Me: "Mom, it's me. That was a computer."

Mom: "What?! That wasn't you? It sounded exactly like you!"

> THE AFTERMATH

My mom was terrified. We laughed, but it was a nervous laugh. She realized that if someone called her saying "I'm in jail, send money," she would have believed it was me.

Safety Tip: Establish a "Safe Word" with your family. If legal trouble or money is involved, ask for the safe word. An AI voice clone won't know it.

> CONCLUSION

The "Grandparent Scam" is about to get nuclear. We are entering an era of Zero Trust. We can no longer trust our ears. Video can be faked. Audio can be faked. The only verified reality is physical presence.

I deleted the voice clone immediately after the call. It felt like keeping a voodoo doll of myself in a digital locker.