AI Voices Abused by Telegram User to Make Swat Calls as Paid Service
February 12, 2023
Telegram channel Torswats offered paid service for and posted own recordings of false threats calls featuring AI-generated voices to direct armed law enforcement to raid locations of victims such as high schools, private residents, streamers.
- Alleged deployer
- torswats
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- your-cbd-store, university-of-pittsburgh-police-department, phillipsburg-high-school, hempstead-high-school, dubuque-police-department, bellefonte-area-high-school
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/524
Data source
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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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