To a serious warning to users of social media The American colossus of technology went through around the world, Meta.
As top -notch Meta executives, they use genetic artificial intelligence (IA) to deceive those who seek love online and get money.
With a deception tool of artificial intelligence, scammers can create images and videos, with a false voice, respond to video calls and portray someone else.
David Angranovic, who is responsible for dealing with global threats, said as an example of a Cambodian -based cybercrime group targeted by people who speak Japanese or Chinese. According to researchers at Openai, this group used the company’s software to create and translate the content.
The main goal of the scammers was of course to get money from their victims. They devote the time needed to build trust relationships with the victims and, slowly, find the way to grab money or personal data.
To achieve their goal, they use all social media and Meta is able to identify only part of their activity, Angranovic stressed. He thus urged users to prudence, as loneliness, the fact that the mood of many falls in the winter months as well as the forthcoming celebration of lovers, Valentine’s Day, are circumstances that the scammers exploit.
Rachel Tobak, a Meta executive, urged users to be “polite paranoid” when they know someone on the internet and develop feelings about him, especially if this person requests money for some supposed emergency or professional opportunity.
Genetic artificial intelligence has been widely spread for about a year but its use in scams has been increasing in recent months as the available tools, often found for free, allow fraudsters to create “persuasive” non -existent persons. “They can even use bots (automatically or semi -automatic software, capable of chatting with a human) created by artificial intelligence to call, in a false voice, without even having human intervention,” Tobak described.