Chinese Businessman Reportedly Defrauded of 4.3 Million Yuan by AI-Generated Deepfake Impersonating Friend
April 15, 2023
The fraudster manipulated the friend's face and voice, convincing the victim to transfer funds for a supposed business transaction. The incident underscores the need for responsible AI governance and harm prevention strategies in deepfake technology. For those interested in shaping the future of trustworthy AI, join us at HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM where we Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage AI incidents to foster safe and secure AI practices.
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- Alleged deployer
- scammers-impersonating-friend-of-guo, unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- guo-(surname-of-deepfake-scam-victim), friend-of-guo-(surname-of-deepfake-scam-victim), general-public-of-china
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/992
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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