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DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN
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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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    At some point someone’s going to train an LLM on material from successful scams to autonomously generate new scams, then wire the money to server farms to run more copies of itself.

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      Can’t wait for self-replicating scam bots

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        Maybe they’ll finally try to sell me an extended warranty on a car I actually own.

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      Thats an ingenious idea…

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