Deepfake Mark Ruffalo scams manga artist Chikae Ide
Japanese manga artist Chikae Ide was scammed of over half a million US dollars after being tricked by a deepfake version of Marvel's Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo. The Asahi Shimbun tells how Chikae Ide was contacted on Facebook by someone claiming to be Ruffalo, who built an emotional trust with her, 'met' on video, developed a romantic online relationship, and were unofficially married online. After the 'marriage', the scammer continually asked for thousands of dollars for plane tickets, hospital bills, and cash troubles, and even faked having cancer. Police have been unable to identify the person posing as Ruffalo. The true saga is told in Ide's new book Poison Love , and fictionalised in a comic with the same title. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Operator: Developer: Country: Japan Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Defraud Technology: Deepfake - video; Machine learning Issue: Impersonation; Fraud; Privacy Investigations, assessments, audits 🧮 Deepfaked. Veteran manga artist falls for deepfake Mark Ruffalo who stole more than $500,000
- Date it happened
- 2022-09-01
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