Incident 422: Deepfake of FTX's Former CEO Posted on Twitter Aiming to Scam FTX Collapse Victims

Description: A visual and audio deepfake of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was posted on Twitter to scam victims of the exchange's collapse by urging people to transfer funds into an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet.

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Alleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed victims of FTX's collapse and Twitter Users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
422
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-11-22
Editors
Khoa Lam
Sam Bankman-Fried deepfake aims to scam FTX collapse victims
blockchaintechnology-news.com · 2022

A deepfake of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried aims to scam victims of the exchange’s collapse.

FTX was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange and Bankman-Fried was seen as the face of crypto in Washington. The exchange enjoyed many cele…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.