Broadway Performer and SiriusXM Host Seth Rudetsky Reportedly Lost Facebook Page Access in Purportedly AI-Assisted Scam Impersonating Comedian Nikki Glaser

August 18, 2026

Broadway performer and SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky reportedly received a personalized invitation purportedly from comedian Nikki Glaser's podcast. After scammers guided him through Facebook permissions during a supposed technical setup, he lost access to his page; he said a former marketing company was also compromised. Reporting described the invitation as most likely AI-composed. …through JOIN US.

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Alleged deployer: scammers, cybercriminals
Alleged developer: large-language-model-developers
Alleged harmed parties: targets-of-fraudulent-professional-opportunities, social-media-users, seth-rudetsky, public-figures, nikki-glaser, facebook-users, epistemic-integrity, companies

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