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FBI: Your Social Media Pics, Videos Fuel AI Scams, So Consider Going Private

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To thwart criminals using deepfakes, the FBI also urges users to ‘create a secret word or phrase’ among family members to verify their identities when speaking over the phone or online.
How do you stop criminals from using generative AI to exploit unsuspecting users? The FBI suggests you may want to cool it with the public social media posts.
In a Tuesday alert, the agency warned that criminals are abusing generative AI technologies in numerous ways, often to trick victims into handing over their cash. It lays out 17 techniques that criminals favor for creating deepfakes—or AI-generated images, video, and voice clones—which help them pose as the victims, their family members, or celebrities.
“Criminals generate short audio clips containing a loved one’s voice to impersonate a close relative in a crisis situation, asking for immediate financial assistance or demanding a ransom,” the FBI said in one example—a tactic that grabbed headlines last year.

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