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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Fights Deep Fakes

Generative AI is being used to support use cases in a growing number of industries—including scam enterprises. Deep-fakes-as-a-service businesses are now available to established and aspiring cybercriminals from technology developers that sell via end-to-end encrypted chats on the Telegram messaging app or on the dark web. Criminals can buy deepfake images, cloned voices, biometric datasets and synthetic identities. They pay between $10 and $50 if they want to create a custom deepfake image. A ready-to-use synthetic identity can be purchased for around $15. Deepfakes that spoof biometr...

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