Brad Pitt slams ‘awful’ AI scammers who faked relationship to convince French woman to send them $855,000

Brad Pitt, actor playing Sonny Hayes, a driver of the fictional Apex APXGP F1 team i (Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

• A French woman said she was duped out of $855,000 by a fake Brad Pitt. Now, the actor is warning fans not to respond to unsolicited online outreach.

Brad Pitt hit out at scammers after a French woman was tricked into believing she was in a relationship with an AI-generated version of him. The woman, identified as Anne in an interview aired on France's TF1 channel, said she was scammed out of $850,000 during the fake relationship lasting more than a year.