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Florida man says his wife ‘wants a divorce’ after he lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk car scam (www.independent.co.uk)

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456

George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.

Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honey, listen. If you'd just watch the ad, he said his brain was in the Cloud. He's omnipresent now. He can talk to any of us.

Look! Look! I still have the link. Damn, why won't this link work? If you could just see the link, honey. He was talking to me. He said, I'd won and that I was incredibly smart. He said we've been chosen! We don't have to live in this shitty apartment anymore. He's going to take us away with him to Mars!

HONEY! Come back! I love you and I want to live in the computer on Mars together!

...

Fuck. Well, fine. I guess I'll just go find an AI girlfriend.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

AI Girlfriend could do better.