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AI Incident Database · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026

Four Arrested for Using AI Deepfakes to Extort NRI Targets, Including Jamia Millia Student

The faces used were not the faces of the people using them. The money requested was real. The gap between those two facts was the business model. Someone will look into this. It will not be the people who should.
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