JOHANNESBURG/LONDON ¨C Beth Hyland thought she had met the love of her life on Tinder.
In reality, the Michigan-based administrative assistant had been manipulated by an online scam artist who posed as a French man named ¡°Richard,¡± used deepfake video on Skype calls and posted photos of another man to pull off his con.
Deepfakes ¡ª manipulated video or audio made using artificial intelligence to look and sound real ¡ª are often difficult to detect without specialized tools.
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