Former Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos's Likeness Reportedly Used in Purported AI-Generated Video Investment Scams
January 22, 2025
Geingos implores the public to report any suspicious accounts and disregard messages promising loans or investments allegedly from her. This incident underscores the critical need for responsible AI governance, as part of Project Cerebellum's mission to establish guardrails for AI, preventing such harmful practices.
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- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers, unknown-scammers-impersonating-monica-geingos
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- monica-geingos, general-public-of-namibia
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1143
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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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