Posted on 12/10/2024 2:20:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
When all our lives are online, there is an abundance of content available for malicious actors to exploit with AI-powered tools, says RSIS’ Dymples Leong.
News emerged in late November that over 100 Singaporean public servants, including five ministers, received extortionary emails with deepfake images. The messages demanded US$50,000 of cryptocurrency in return for not publishing “compromising” videos. The emails contained purported screenshots of those videos showing the victim’s faces, which seemed to be taken from public sources such as LinkedIn.
This is not the first extortion plot against public servants in Singapore. Earlier this year, several members of parliament received threatening letters containing obscene images manipulated in a similar way. Such incidents highlight concerns over the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to augment blackmail attempts.
DEEPFAKE BLACKMAIL ON THE RISE
Similar attempts have also occurred in Asia. An extortion scheme in November targeted male politicians in South Korea, where victims’ faces were superimposed on explicit images and ransom was demanded in return for keeping the altered images private.
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at the same time, deep fakes will likely free those who really are in the position of being blackmailed.
“Don’t believe what you’re seeing. That’s clearly a deep fake.”
“its potential to augment blackmail attempts.”
More likely, it will be the end of such blackmail. When everybody can easily be shown in compromising positions (still or video) and nothing can be trusted anymore, then nothing will be trusted.
Of course, this will give all politicians to sleep with the sweet young things without worry, but the threat of blackmail never stopped their in flagrante delicato before.
Don’t believe everything you see.
And, in this brave new world, don’t believe everything you see either.
The AI is amazing. Pretty soon even live actors will not be needed.
Those that draw the cartoons and do video games gotta be nervous too.
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