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Crime
Hong Kong police bust love scam that duped victims out of $46 million using deepfakes
Hong Kong police dismantled a cross-border fraud syndicate that allegedly used deepfake technology to swindle over $46 million from victims ...
Carl Samson
Home
South Korean schools embroiled in deepfake porn crisis
A deepfake porn crisis has gripped South Korea, with perpetrators using artificial intelligence technology to fabricate sexually explicit im...
Ryan General
China
Watch: Viral video showcases ease of becoming someone else via AI technology
A viral video on Chinese social media showcases the power of AI-driven deepfake technology, demonstrating how easily individuals can be tran...
Michelle De Pacina
Ukrainian woman gets deepfaked to find Chinese husbands, sell Russian goods
A Ukrainian YouTuber is exposing the horrors of deepfakes on Chinese social media after learning that her image has been extensively cloned ...
Bryan Ke
Fake news peddler held in China in first known arrest over ChatGPT use
A man who allegedly used ChatGPT to generate news about a fake train crash has been detained in China, marking the country’s first known arr...
Singaporean man’s face ends up in deepfake porn after he refuses to pay hacker $5,800
A 20-year-old Singaporean man identified as Owen found himself in the middle of a deepfake porn scandal after refusing to give in to a hack...
Japan
Japanese man is the first suspect ever arrested for using deepfake tech to de-pixelate porn
A Japanese man was arrested on Monday after he effectively removed pixelated parts in censored domestically produced porn videos using artif...
Instagram
Chinese Man Becomes Leonardo DiCaprio Using Deepfake App
A Chinese deepfake app that swaps user’s faces with those of celebrities in films, TV shows or music videos has found its first English-spea...
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