Meet the AI Fraud Fighters: A Deepfake Granny, Digital Bots and a YouTube Star

It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common scams while livestreaming. "I assume I'm talking to Evan Zimmer," he says with a mischievous glance, his eyes exposed without his trademark aviator sunglasses on. We were close to the end of our conversation when he realized that my image and audio could have been digitally altered to impersonate me this whole time. "If I'm completely honest with you, there was not a single moment where I thought you could be deepfaking," he says. He had a reason to be paranoid, except I wasn't using AI to trick Kitboga at all. "That's the big problem because you could be!" he says. True enough. Artificial intelligence is the tool of choice for cybercriminals, who increasingly use it to do their dirty work, building a fleet of bots that don't need to eat or sleep. Large-scale telemarketing calls are being ... Read full article.