Incident 551: FBI Reported Surge of Extortion Cases of AI Media Featuring Sexual Explicit Activities

Description: The FBI reported an increase in sextortion cases featuring the use of fake, including AI-generated, images or videos created from content posted on their social media sites or web postings, provided to the malicious actor upon request, or captured during video chats.

Tools

New Report New Response DiscoverView History

Entities

View all entities

Alleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed social media users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID

551

Report Count

Incident Date

2023-04-01

Editors

Khoa Lam, Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Explicit Content and Sextortion Schemes

ic3.gov

FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes

arstechnica.com

ic3.gov · 2023

The FBI is warning the public of malicious actors creating synthetic content (commonly referred to as "deepfakes") by manipulating benign photographs or videos to target victims. Technology advancements are continuously improving the qualit…

arstechnica.com · 2023

The FBI on Monday warned of the increasing use of artificial intelligence to generate phony videos for use in sextortion schemes that attempt to harass minors and non-consulting adults or coerce them into paying ransoms or complying with ot…

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.