Over 400 Purportedly AI-Driven Scams Reportedly Led to $8M Loss for Australians in 2023
March 1, 2024
In 2023, Australians reportedly lost over $8 million to scams involving purported deepfake videos and fake news articles that falsely endorsed investment trading platforms. Scammers reportedly used AI-generated content featuring celebrities to mislead victims, leading to significant financial losses. The National Anti-Scam Centre received over 400 reports of these incidents. One man is reported to have lost over $80,000 in cryptocurrency.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers, unknown-generative-ai-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- general-public-of-australia, general-public, epistemic-integrity
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/715
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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