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Purportedly AI-Generated Article Falsely Depicted Australian Broadcasting Corporation Finance Presenter Alan Kohler Interviewing Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock to Promote Boulder Sparhaven

August 17, 2026

An online article reportedly used AI-generated imagery to falsely depict Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) finance presenter Alan Kohler interviewing Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock about Boulder Sparhaven, a cryptocurrency trading platform not licensed in Australia. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) cited it as an example of increasingly sophisticated AI-assisted investment scams targeting Australians. …through JOIN US.

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Alleged deployer
synthetic-media-creators, scammers-in-australia, scammers, investment-scam-operators, deepfake-creators-in-australia, deepfake-creators, cybercriminals
Alleged developer
synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers, synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers, deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
victims-of-impersonation-scams, michele-bullock, investors, general-public-of-australia, general-public, epistemic-integrity, australian-investors, alan-kohler

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