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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

I'm highly doubtful that scammers could get enough real video of multiple employees in the same company to train an AI to pull this off convincingly. Celebrities, yes. Regular people, no

However, Occam's Razor tells me this employee knows exactly where that money went and plans to quietly slip away to a tropical island to retire, after getting fired for being "gullible."

[–] PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are lots of stupid people.

[+] nulluser@programming.dev -7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You need lots and lots of real video of a person to train an AI to make fake videos of that person. So, unless the CFO and the other allegedly faked employees are all youtubers, there's very good reason to consider more plausible explanations.

To your point, you are correct. There are lots of stupid people. This includes people that will blindly believe that AI can just magically do anything and not even consider simpler explanations for things like this.

I think it was just last year there was a story about some school official claiming to have been duped into paying scammers millions from the schools funds, only to later have been caught making the whole thing up in an attempt to steal the money. (Maybe somebody remembers enough to find a link) So it's not remotely far fetched to think that's what could be happening here.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Why even use AI? Mocap + features reconstructed from some photo + your acting under that mask + one spam call to steal voice sample + pitch shifter to slightly modify your voice. We have fucking Hololive where vtubers are anime girls streaming in real time. If it means at least $1 mil, you can find the right people to do a good deepfake under a budget. And they won't probably use LLM if they worth employment as it's unreliable and, as you said, needs training data, needs processing power, time etc. You'd be surprised how many things people do as shitposts in AE and Blender. Making Biden say an N-word to Obama is easier than you think when you know who to ask.

It's not an LLM problem, it's their stupid security, verification processes and this person be a gullible idiot.

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