Chinese Police Start Cracking Down on Hyper-Realistic AI Fraud
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Following a series of high-profile incidents, Chinese police are stepping up their efforts to combat criminals who have employed AI software to generate deceptive text and impersonate friends of the people they target using hyper-realistic content.
In April, a man surnamed Guo received a video call from an impostor on the Chinese messaging app WeChat. Impersonating a friend of Guo, the scammer persuaded him to transfer the equivalent of $600,000 to a bank account in Inner Mongolia within 10 minutes. He complied, and it wasn’t until he contacted his friend to confirm the transfer that he realized he had been swindled.
Authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Fuzhou, who contacted their counterparts in Inner Mongo…
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