China Targets AI-Driven Fraud and Deepfake Scandals with New Crackdowns
July 4, 2024
Chinese law enforcement has targeted a rise in AI-driven crimes. The crimes include deepfake and voice synthesis used for fraud, identity theft, and unauthorized personality rights usage. In particular, "AI undressing" scams, fake relationships using synthesized voices, and game hacking software make up many of these cases. In response, authorities have prosecuted multiple cases and implemented stricter regulations to control AI misuse.
- Alleged deployer
- zeng-moumou, wang-mouhe, unknown-deepfake-creators, tang-mou, bai-moumou, ai-fraud-rings-in-china, unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-voice-synthesis-technology-developers, unknown-game-cheating-technology-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- chinese-general-public, chinese-citizens
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/834
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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