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AI Incidents

AI-Generated Faces Used by Scammers to Pose as a Law Firm in Boston

April 13, 2022

GAN faces were allegedly used by scammers alongside a parked domain and a fake website to impersonate a Boston law firm.
Alleged deployer
unknown-scammers
Alleged developer
unknown
Alleged harmed parties
email-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/236

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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