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Kaspersky's 2024 Threat Landscape report reveals a significant rise in AI-driven scams in Latin America, with a 220% increase in Mexico and 140% across the region. Deepfake audios and videos, including fraudulent content featuring Lionel Messi, are used to deceive victims, leading to substantial financial losses.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The piece describes actual, occurring harms directly enabled by AI systems—namely, the malicious use of deepfake audio and video generation tools by criminals to carry out phishing and extortion schemes. This falls squarely under “AI Incident,” since the AI’s misuse has already resulted in injury (financial and emotional harm) to individuals and communities.[AI generated]