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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Self-publish and be scammed: Jon's tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

AI-powered publishing fraud schemes exploit authors' emotional investment in their work by promising global recognition and marketing campaigns, resulting in significant financial losses.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to deploy at scale, said the analysis from the AI Incident Database. It catalogued more than a dozen recent examples of impersonation for profit, including a deepfake video of Western Australia's premier, Robert Cook, hawking an investment scheme, and deepfake doctors promoting skin creams.
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