Inside AI of the ground war against the celebrity Deepfakes

In January, the French woman lost $ 900,000 after they were the victim of fraudsters who were Brad Pitt, who persuaded her to send money for medical treatment. A sophisticated scheme that lasted over a year, presented photos created by artificial intelligence Showing the actor in the hospital bed, it seems to fight kidney cancer. Pitt representatives He later issued a statement By failure that “fraudsters use a strong connection of fans with celebrities.”

These scams can also work on a scale. This month, investigators opened surgery with Tbilisi, Georgia, which used Deepfakes and fabricated news reports to promote cryptocurrency schemes, which feature famous British personalities, including Martin Lewis’s financial expert, DJ Zoe Ball Radio.