L.A. Woman Reportedly Defrauded of $81,000 and $350,000 Condo Proceeds in Romance Scam Using Purported Deepfake Videos of Actor Steve Burton
October 1, 2024
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- MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.587, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers-impersonating-steve-burton, unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- steve-burton, general-public, family-of-abigail-ruvalcaba, abigail-ruvalcaba
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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