Tennessee Meteorologist's Likeness Reportedly Used in Sextortion Campaign Involving Purported AI-Generated Content
January 10, 2025
Bree Smith, a meteorologist in Nashville, Tennessee, was reportedly targeted in a sextortion campaign involving purported AI-generated deepfakes that manipulated her likeness into explicit content. According to reporting, Smith's face was digitally placed onto semi-nude and nude bodies, with the resulting media circulated online by impersonators seeking money. Smith documented the spread of these accounts and has advocated for legislative responses, including a new Tennessee bill addressing deepfake-related harms.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-sextortionists, unknown-cybercriminals
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- wtvf, newschannel-5-nashville-wtvf, general-public-of-tennessee, general-public, bree-smith, epistemic-integrity, truth
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1048
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