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Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms
2026-06-04
Sponsored Reddit ads reportedly impersonated the BBC, Financial Times, and The Guardian to promote purportedly fake AI investment platforms including Wencoin STX, Warrior Coin AI, and Nevo Coin. The campaign allegedly dressed the scam as legitimate financial journalism, using cloned publisher pages and deepfake-style news footage to pressure users into sharing contact details and making deposits.
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Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts
2020-09-01
Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.
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Incident 5084 Report
Celebrities' Deepfake Voices Abused with Malicious Intent
2023-01-30
Voices of celebrities and public figures were deepfaked using voice synthesis for malicious intents such as impersonation or defamation, and were shared on social platforms such as 4chan and Reddit.
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Leonardo AI's Platform Alleged to Have Been Used for Creating Nonconsensual Celebrity Deepfakes
2024-03-26
Sydney-based startup Leonardo AI's text-to-image generator was alleged to have been exploited to create nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities, bypassing content moderation systems with user-shared prompts.
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