FBI Reported Surge of Extortion Cases of AI Media Featuring Sexual Explicit Activities

April 1, 2023

The FBI has observed a surge in sextortion cases involving the manipulative use of AI-generated media, particularly explicit activities. These cases often exploit content from social media sites or web postings, provided voluntarily, or captured during video chats. Such incidents underscore the importance of trustworthy AI and prompt us to consider how Project Cerebellum's governance can help establish safe and secure AI practices.

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MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.665, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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Alleged deployer: blackmailers, sextortionists, unknown-scammers
Alleged developer: unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: unnamed-victims-in-sextortion-schemes, teenagers-targeted-in-sextortion-scams

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/551

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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