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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

A computer screen showing facial recognition technology
As deepfake video technology improves, the scale of online fraud will grow even further, experts say. Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images

Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial”, an analysis published by AI experts has said.

Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams – leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus – are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to deploy at scale, said the analysis from the AI Incident Database.

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