Not long ago, it was common to find ads on Facebook that appeared to be news from media outlets such as: Country anyone World in which They talked about the so-called method some celebrities use to get rich.. They would talk about a private investment in cryptocurrency that yields huge returns. Idea: Use the hook of a well-known face like Karlos Arguiñano or Ferran Adrià to execute the crypto stamp scam.

Now criminals have apparently learned to use AI tools (or so the aesthetics of the results suggest) and perfected them. Photomontage with more celebrities to make the scam more believable. And again, with the logos of the newspapers mentioned to engrave even more credibility. Alberto Chicote has already given the warning sound.

Goal: buy non-existent bitcoins

The chief had to go out on his Twitter account. “The montage is so crude that it’s hard to believe the message and its senders can be trusted. But just in case, I’m making this clear: all this is wrong. They try to defraud the unwary by taking my face for montage. Be very careful with these people!” he warned.

You are not alone. journalist Susanna Griso posted days ago a similar explanation. “The setup is so rough that I thought there was no need to deny it, but the police advised me to do so to avoid possible scams. I have never invested in cryptocurrencies and would not recommend buying them.”

He also took advantage of the space of his program, Espejo Público, to make it clear to the public that this was a hoax. According to his own account, “There is a montage that takes you to a supposed interview that Mara Torres, who interviewed me, but they did a montage and it’s assumed I was selling bitcoin there,” he said. World.

“I know people who trust him, even my friends. Here I have a message from a good friend who told me, ‘Susanna, I went in and left money and the company says they’re going to go. Give it back to me,'” she added.

Both are unwittingly involved in the first cases of allegedly AI-generated images like Midjourney to confuse the population with malicious intent. In this case, hunting down the suckers trying to invest in the same financial products some celebrities have invested in.

This is no small matter: a Spanish woman was defrauded of more than 10,000 euros using Jesús Quintero as an involuntary hook. After entering your information on the landing pages of these scams, fake phone call broker who convinced you to download a remote desktop control program?. In this way, he accessed his bank and received a pre-approved loan that was deducted from his account.

No video will serve as evidence on its own

about five years ago xataka We published an article titled “With deep frauds We’re going to have a problem with the truth: even the videos won’t serve as evidence.” The alarm was set by a video of Obama voicing a speech he never actually gave.

That video, which was less than a minute, required hours of high-quality work.something that’s impossible to recreate later on on a large scale or target victims that don’t yield a big return. It was only a matter of time before the process became simpler and simpler until it came out very easily.

We’ve already seen something like this two and a half years later, with the company’s famous announcement. deep fake by Lola Flores, who brought the singer back to life and allowed her to say something she never really said. It was, then, a commercial campaign with the consent and assistance of his family, but the result was so good that once again it made them think there was less time left. too much easy to do before it becomes problematic. And it’s not for celebrities, where it’s easy to find videos that capture their voices and looks from a variety of planes, but for anyone with a few photos of us.

The day hasn’t come in a big way yet, but seeing the advances in Artificial Intelligence over the past year, it seems unlikely that much remains to create them. deep frauds It can be as simple as using ChatGPT today or creating an image with Midjourney.

In this case, even videos that are perhaps the ultimate forgery due to their complexity cannot be the ultimate guarantee of accuracy on their own. And we will be there not to trust any virus, We carefully check everything we get our hands on… and listen to the celebrities caught resorting to the next buzzword: “this is a deep fake‘ will be the new ‘My Twitter account has been hacked’. But that will be a problem of the future.

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