Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of consumer computing going through the roof, poisoning groundwater for entire communities, but, uh… at least it's making some people's jobs easier!
"Some people" being scammers. Of course. Real-time AI deepfake technology has come a long way since the days of Snapchat filters: many scammers are now using it to assume a (literally) friendlier face, getting rid of the old aversion to video calls that used to be able to out them immediately. It's kind of bleak that you can't immediately trust the evidence of your own eyes anymore, but just like any technological terror, there's a fairly foolproof way to delete it.
Scambaiter Jim Browning, who has perhaps done more for online scam awareness than anybody else on YouTube, breaks it down: if a respectable government official or generous millionaire is incapable of putting their hand in front of their face, something might be afoot.
Come for the exhaustive breakdown of the latest scam making the rounds, stay for the soothing Irish accent.
