Americans lost nearly $900 million to AI-powered scams, FBI says (www.malwarebytes.com)

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Deepfakes, voice cloning, and other AI-powered scams cost Americans nearly $900 million in 2025, says the 2025 FBI Internet Crime Report.

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[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

What about the AI companies scamming people via the stock market, any accounting for that? 10 times as much? 100 times?

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 hour ago

Crime only matters when it's the poors doing it.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

This news article will be run through the Nationalism Word Engine and come out as evidence that we need to Beat China In AI

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