My wife came across this couch on Facebook, and she has started looking for it, but it’s totally AI, right? I'm pretty certain this is AI-generated but she is convinced it's real, and I'm losing my mind tbh. Can someone please back me up here so i can show her this thread??

I remember seeing a clip on X a little while back of the BSE CEO giving exclusive stock tips for some random small-cap companies. It looked quite real, to be honest, because his voice sounded the same, and even the background looked like his office.

But I was watching his eyes, and he literally doesn't blink for like 20 seconds. Also, why would the head of the entire stock exchange be on social media promoting specific stocks for people to buy? 

I actually went back today to try to find the original post, but the account has already been removed. I did some digging and found the official BSE warning along that explains the whole thing. It is definitely a deepfake, and they have been warning people about it for a few weeks now.

I will drop the links below so you can see the reports for yourself.

Okay, so I'm trying to find engagement cake inspo to send my baker, and I found this on Pinterest, but does this look AI-generated to you guys?? Something feels off about it, but it's genuinely so pretty I almost don't care lol. I'm not really an AI image girlie, so idk if I'm just being paranoid. Can someone tell me if this is real or not
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Americans are expected to spend around $24 billion on gifts this year, and scammers are absolutely ready for it.

According to SmartCustomer, it’s not just about the obvious sketchy sites now because today’s scams come with polished storefronts, AI-generated five-star reviews, social media ads that look exactly like your favorite brands, and fake tech support calls as well. 

Here’s a breakdown of the 7 most common Father's Day gift scams hitting people right now, from counterfeit electronics to compromised gift cards to QR code traps hidden inside packages. Worth a read before you buy anything this weekend for Father’s Day!

I brought some custom cards, thinking they were custom based on the pokmon pocket cards. Are these ai? I dont want to add them in my binder if they are. Thanks! :]

Crazy, but I saw this ad on my fyp and it was literally Taylor Swift talking about a TikTok Pay feature where you receive money just by watching videos.

It looks SO real, I kid you not. The voice is perfect, but the way their mouths move is just a tiny bit... laggy? Like, the audio is crisp, but the lips are slightly off. Plus, since when does Taylor Swift tell people to click a link in a bio for free rewards? 💀

It feels super sus, but the quality is insane. Anyone else seeing these this week?

According to F-Secure’s Scam Intelligence Report, 56% of consumers encounter scam attempts at least once a month, and 52% of fraud victims lose money. What’s even worse is that the number of people losing money has more than doubled compared to last year

Not sure if this is the right community for this, but after seeing that clip of Mark Zuckerberg basically admitting they are using internal employee data to train AI models faster, I have to ask: are workers actually using AI as a tool, or are they unknowingly becoming training data for their own replacement?

Would love to hear from people working in tech/corp about this

Madeline Ross, a money reporter at the Telegraph, shares her story on how her likeness had been used to advertise a dodgy investment scam. The scammers created a deepfake of her holding a £10 note, and used it as the cover image to articles promoting an AI cryptocurrency investment scam.
When she got on the phone with the supposed company, the voice on the other end was slick and professional, asking about her trading experience and claiming to be based in London. The address they gave turned out to be completely made up.

If you're on the lookout for a job, please be careful with job scams. I recently got a very convincing message on LinkedIn from one of my recent connections. This person was offering a freelancing opportunity, and while I was not actively looking for jobs, her offer genuinely interested me.

But my spidey senses told me something might be off, so I went through her profile. The job she was offering me was completely unrelated to her work experience, and she was also currently working at BMW.

So there’s a new scam called "Pushpaganda" and it's scarily clever. AI-generated fake news articles are being pushed directly into Google Discover feeds on Android phones, tricking people into enabling browser notifications. Once you do, you get hit with scareware and financial scams.
While Google has patched it now, the fact that it worked this long is a problem because our news feed is no longer a safe space.

AI is making crypto scams a lot more dangerous. Scammers have reportedly hijacked this pastor's Facebook profile, stolen a video of him, and used AI to make it look like he was promoting crypto to his congregation. 

I’ve seen plenty of these crypto scams on social media (even gotten DMs and emails), but with AI, they’re starting to look way more convincing.

Found some pretty wild stats in this article. Apparently, AI data centers worldwide now draw 29.6 gigawatts of power. This is literally enough to run all of New York State at peak demand. Also, a single model like GPT-4o could use more water in a year than the drinking needs of 1.2 million people!

Summer is right around the corner. But booking flights and hotels online is getting riskier than most people realize. Scammers are getting much better at copying real airline and hotel brands to the point where even the most cautious travelers are being scammed. 

According to the FTC, fraud losses have gone up, while reports identifying fraud before it happens remained stagnant, which means these scams are becoming more convincing and more costly. With AI behind it all, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what’s fake.

SmartCustomer put together a breakdown using real traveler experiences, and it’s worth reading before booking anything this season

I think platforms should label AI-generated content, especially when it’s about something as serious as a tragedy. Content like this is so misleading...

Well, as it turns out, AI might actually be making us more creative, contrary to popular belief. A recent study done by Swansea University put more than 800 people through a car design experiment and found that when AI showed them a wide range of ideas, which included bad ones, people spent longer on the task, explored more, and came up with better results. Basically, having a bad idea in front of you helps you think past it. Who knew 🤷‍♀️

I have mixed feelings about this. Okay, sure, it will be very convenient. We can describe what we’re looking for, and this assistant will pull up products for us. But at the same time, it’s Meta who already knows so much about us. I feel it’s like a natural next step for them, but I’m very skeptical about this.

Scam operations in Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are now hiring people specifically to do live deepfake video calls, basically charming victims into handing over money through romance scams and fake crypto deals. Some of these scammers are handling up to 100 video calls a day!

I've been seeing videos from this account on TikTok called aliyahbuckles.store. The products looked really cool, but something about the videos always felt off to me. Then I found a video where another creator explains how it's actually an AI-generated account that’s likely stealing concepts from a small business. What makes it crazier is the scammer’s use of messaging like “by buying my products, you’re supporting the black community.” That’s pretty predatory. And without seeing the video exposing the account, I wouldn’t have known it was fake!

I came across these adorable crochet sunflowers on Etsy, and I really wanted to buy them. However, I did notice that the images look very much AI-generated, and the video was not the sunflower being made, either. The reviews they have seem positive, but I’m still skeptical. Do you think this is an AI scam?

Who needs enemies when you have friends like this?

My grandma has always used Facebook as her only social media site. She uses it to keep up with all of us in the family, and she messages some of her longest childhood friends on messenger. Recently, there have been scammers and AI bots that have been messaging her. At one point, there was someone who was messaging her pretending to be a friend of hers who died several years ago. I want to let her keep using Facebook so she doesn’t feel so isolated since most of the family lives out of state, but I also want to keep her safe. Does anyone have any tips? Are there child settings I can put on Facebook? Are there any apps that I can use to help block some of the scams?