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Deepfaked Shit is Getting Real

We recorded 5 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 3 can’t be checked. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (5)

In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Black Mirror has arrived, ahead of schedule.”

    What we tested: Dystopian, Black Mirror-style AI harms such as deepfake fraud have already arrived, sooner than expected.

  2. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “An entire cast of deepfaked people include a deep faked CFO scammed a company out $25 million.”

    What we tested: Deepfaked participants, including a deepfaked CFO, on a video call scammed a company out of $25 million.

    What happened: CNN reports the transfers and their US-dollar equivalent, alongside police descriptions of the fabricated CFO and colleagues. It also reports Arup's confirmation that it was the victim; the amount supports the approximate reading. (CNN, )

  3. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “Even scarier is that the employee who was tricked was suspicious, not naive, and still fell for it:”

    What we tested: The deepfake scam worked even on an employee who was suspicious rather than naive.

    What happened: CNN attributes initial suspicion to police superintendent Baron Chan. The following passages explain that the employee suspected phishing, set aside those doubts after seeing apparent colleagues, and agreed to transfer the money. (CNN, )

  4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Now it’s AI developers who are expecting to do what they do scot-free, while society picks up the tab.”

    What we tested: AI developers expect to operate without paying for the harms they cause, leaving society to bear the costs, much as polluting factories once did.

  5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “That needs to change.”

    What we tested: The situation in which AI developers do what they do scot-free while society picks up the tab for the consequences needs to change.