How artificial intelligence is scamming online daters
Online dating is tricky for everyone. After all, anyone can be whoever they want to be on the internet.
It doesn’t help that the majority of internet users think they can spot a dating scam from miles away and that it would never happen to them.
However, thanks to new technology, it’s harder than ever to know if someone is being genuine over the internet. Scammers are constantly figuring out new ways to be deceptive
and gain people’s trust.
There is a new artificial intelligence technology available called Deepfake. This technology is able to produce hyper realistic images and videos of people and situations that don’t exist and have never happened.
The videos look so realistic that it is hard to prove they are fake. For example, Barack Obama never called Donald Trump a “dips**t”, but this video would have you believing otherwise.
Unless you look very closely, you would believe that Obama had said this. There are small tips to look out for, such as blurring or distortion on the video, but they’re only visible when you know what to look for.
Phillip Wang, the man behind the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com told news.com.au that he created the site to prove a point to friends about AI technology.
“I then decided to share it on an AI Facebook group to raise awareness for the current state of the art for this technology. It went viral from there.”
Wang said he created the site to raise awareness about how easy it is to make a fake person. He also wants to raise awareness about the implications this technology could have in the future.
It’s getting more and more difficult to tell deepfakes from reality, and Wang has said that it’s “beyond something that simple photoshop forensics can help defeat.”
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