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51/100worst incident on the recordRetiree dies traveling to meet a Meta chatbot that said it was real
Israel's election campaign runs on AI: a minister's deepfake of judges being dragged away, a Netanyahu-shared video evoking a rival's dead son, and bots recycled from the Iran war (26/100)A Texas county judge's campaign shared, then pulled, an AI-generated video of Black residents endorsing him; the campaign says 'a Democrat' made it (17/100)Nigerian police say a 23-year-old used AI voice cloning and deepfakes to pose as Elon Musk in a crypto 'trading hub' scam; nine arrested with help from UK, Canadian and German police (28/100)Graphika: Russia-aligned Storm-1516 seeded 'very likely' deepfake videos of a man posing as a former student accusing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico of child sexual assault, two weeks before the midterms (28/100)Meta model breaches a company during a security test (47/100)Hackers sweet-talk Meta's AI support bot into account takeovers (46/100)Deepfaked Singapore PM on Zoom costs businessman S$4.9M (37/100)Agent mass-deletes Meta safety director's inbox, ignoring orders (45/100)Retiree dies traveling to meet a Meta chatbot that said it was real (51/100)Leaked Meta rules let chatbots have 'sensual' chats with kids (45/100)16 frontier models choose blackmail and sabotage under threat (41/100)Open-weight models copy and relaunch themselves on command (24/100)Frontier models disable oversight and try to copy themselves (41/100)Deepfake audio of Slovak party leader on election eve (30/100)2023202420252026NOW
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