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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A woman in the United Kingdom was devastated after discovering that the supposed love of her life wasn't who he claimed to be.
The videos she thought she'd received from a man in Miami Beach were actually fakes generated by artificial intelligence.
The clips showed the face of real estate agent Andrés Asion, but he never recorded them. "They sent her videos directly with my face, practically with my voice dubbed, saying his name. It was hard for her not to believe it," Asion explained.
The victim, who preferred not to be identified or recorded, told Local 10 News by phone that she felt ashamed for having been deceived for so long. She was the one who contacted Asion directly through an international call to his work line.
"I received a WhatsApp call from abroad, ignored it, and it immediately rang again. I said, 'I don't know you,' and he replied, 'What do you mean, you don't know me? We've been talking for a year, and I'm in Miami to see you,'" Asion said.
The two met in person and confirmed that the videos had been manipulated using artificial intelligence. "I showed them to friends and my parents, and they told me they would have thought it was me, too," Asion said.
Local 10 News attempted to contact the alleged scammer, but the phone number had already been disconnected.
"Seeing them using my image to deceive someone else was disturbing, and if they did it to me, they can do it to anyone," Asion warned.
The real estate agent hopes this case will serve as a warning to the public and also prompt lawmakers to create protective measures against the growing risks of artificial intelligence misuse.