
The Deputy Speaker of the State Duma said that criminals use deepfakes to visualize fraudulent schemes
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Boris Chernyshov is the head of the “Vaccination against Fraudsters” project.
Modern scammers use the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence, said State Duma Deputy Speaker Boris Chernyshov.
Fraudsters use deepfakes and other artificial intelligence technologies to visualize the scam.
MOSCOW, August 19 - RIA Novosti. Modern scammers are high-tech people who use all the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma (LDPR), head of the “Vaccination against Fraudsters” project Boris Chernyshov told RIA Novosti.
“Now these are high-tech people who are ahead of any state institution,” the deputy answered the question of how the portrait of the fraudster has changed in recent years, on the sidelines of a press conference at the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
According to him, modern scammers are studying artificial intelligence in order to use it not only to form a dialogue with a future victim, but also to visualize the fraud itself.
“These include deepfakes and circles using artificial intelligence. All this is now actively developing,” Chernyshov said.

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