Fake ads using famous faces scamming Aussies out of millions
AI-generated or photoshopped images of celebrities in handcuffs and police custody have suddenly begun to flood the internet. Often the ads are made to mimic screenshots from news websites. But the ads are always fake and never have anything to do with the celebrities depicted.
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00:34 Scammers have been using my photo and dodgy quotes from me
00:40 to scam people for years.
00:43 They appear on Facebook.
00:44 They appear on LinkedIn.
00:46 They appear on that taboo feed on big mainstream websites.
00:52 And I can do nothing about it.
00:54 I had a bloke on the weekend contact me
00:56 through Facebook abusing me because he'd
00:58 lost $30,000 on a scam that used my picture
01:03 and dodgy comments from me.
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01:09 The thing that gets me is that Facebook and Instagram
01:27 and all these people have this content matching AI technology.
01:30 You post something up with some copyright, like a song
01:33 that you don't have permission for,
01:35 and they'll get rid of that.
01:36 The record companies are all over that.
01:38 This stuff has been reported thousands of times.
01:41 I've literally had thousands of people sending me this stuff.
01:45 Surely they can, I don't know, get rid of it.
01:48 It's a crime where the victims are very powerless.
01:51 If the social media companies and people
01:53 sharing these images and stories don't take them down,
01:56 there's not much we can do.
01:57 We can be a bit careful about letting our image get out there,
02:00 but that's so hard now.
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