Authorities are investigating a sophisticated new scam that uses artificial intelligence to create fake live video calls.
Artificial intelligence is being used in sophisticated new scams to impersonate people on video calls with facial altering technology.Queensland Police and the Australian Cyber Security Centre are investigating the incident.
"A friend of mine sent me a text saying, 'this might sound strange, but did we just talk on Skype?'," Ms Natoli said."What this friend told me is that this looked like me but didn't sound like me — that's when we started to realise that this might be something that is going to progress further."Cr Natoli said scammers had been using her name and image on Facebook for a long time.
"That's something that I'm really concerned about, because I do have this position in our community, and I would really be distressed if people were being impacted.""The speed that AI is developing also means that these types of scams are developing really very quickly," Dr Humphreys said."They've used snippets from their voice, used AI then to develop it into a realistic-sounding voice that parents even believe is their child.
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