Julie Inman Grant
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But there is a script, and that's what's important.
There'll be certain scripts where they will try and suck you in.
We've captured a number of those scripts and we've provided those to a range of online platforms as well so that they can use AI technology
to be able to surface up and issue warnings to users or to de-platform those who are using those kinds of scripts.
But there's a lot more that could be done in terms of nudity detection and also geographical locations.
So we know a lot of these organized criminals, you may have heard of the Yahoo Boys that are based out of Nigeria.
There are different areas where a lot of these, and also in Southeast Asia,
where they have phone and other centres where they're literally doing this en masse.
And often when you get strange numbers that go into your voicemail, with current technologies improving, all they need is 10 seconds of your voice to be able to create a voice map and then use someone else's voice.
And this is where the Hey Mom scheme was well reported on a while ago.
But this is the child asking parents for money or saying that they're kidnapped.
Again, there are a lot of ingenious and ingenuitive ways that criminals can try and use these technologies to fool you.
They can even use technologies now to give a person maybe from elsewhere an Australian accent.
Well, I think, well, one for one, it's not something that people would be expecting from a government agency.
And while you're reaching young people every day,
If it doesn't have an air of authenticity, it is really hard to reach young people and send them convincing messages.
So the whole idea with this was to make it realistic enough that people would question.
And this is exactly what we want young people to do.
We want them questioning everything.
Why would this beautiful young person come out of the blue and just start talking to you and within five minutes ask you to take off your clothes?