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=== Real-time digital look-and-sound-alike fraud in 2024 === | === Real-time digital look-and-sound-alike fraud in 2024 === | ||
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'''Reporting''' | |||
* [https://www.ft.com/content/b977e8d4-664c-4ae4-8a8e-eb93bdf785ea '''''Arup lost $25mn in Hong Kong deepfake video conference scam''''' at ft.com] reporting by Cheng Leng and Chan Ho-him 2025-05-17 | |||
* [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html '''''Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake "chief financial officer"''''' at edition.cnn.com], February 2024 reporting by Heather Chen and Kathleen Magramo, CNN | * [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html '''''Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake "chief financial officer"''''' at edition.cnn.com], February 2024 reporting by Heather Chen and Kathleen Magramo, CNN | ||
* [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/16/tech/arup-deepfake-scam-loss-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html '''''British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25 million deepfake scam victim''''' at edition.cnn.com] May 2024 reporting by Kathleen Magramo, CNN | |||
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== Text syntheses == | == Text syntheses == | ||
[[w:Chatbot]]s and [[w:spamming]] have existed for a longer time, but only now armed with AI they are becoming more deceiving. | [[w:Chatbot]]s and [[w:spamming]] have existed for a longer time, but only now armed with AI they are becoming more deceiving. | ||
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== 2020's synthetic human-like fakes == | == 2020's synthetic human-like fakes == | ||
* '''2024''' | '''<font color="red">text-to-video model</font>''' | '''[[w:Sora (text-to-video model)]]''', a [[w:text-to-video model]] developed by [[w:OpenAI]], that has worrying levels of realism was published in 2024. It was released to subscription paying users of ChatGPT in December 2024. | |||
* '''2023''' | '''<font color="orange">Real-time digital look-and-sound-alike crime</font>''' | In April a man in northern China was defrauded of 4.3 million yuan by a criminal employing a digital look-and-sound-alike pretending to be his friend on a video call made with a stolen messaging service account.<ref name="Reuters real-time digital look-and-sound-alike crime 2023"/> | * '''2023''' | '''<font color="orange">Real-time digital look-and-sound-alike crime</font>''' | In April a man in northern China was defrauded of 4.3 million yuan by a criminal employing a digital look-and-sound-alike pretending to be his friend on a video call made with a stolen messaging service account.<ref name="Reuters real-time digital look-and-sound-alike crime 2023"/> | ||