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Re:My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos post... by supernova87a on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:41PM (#29365421)
Can anyone guess what exactly the hackers want with a particular person's IG? Why don't they just auto/synthetically generate a fake face if they just want to sell or scam something? Is it to exploit the person's friend network?
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Re:My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos post... by mkl on Saturday November 27, 2021 @09:07PM (#29365539)
They want a large number of followers who trust the person.
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Re:My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos post... by busymom0 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:33PM (#29365961)
This news report had a musician guy's IG taken over and deep fake videos of him and his voice telling people to get bitcoins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqr0oER03SE

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Re:My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos post... by i_hate_pigeons on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:25AM (#29368730)
not deepfaked but recently some solana sales pitch took over lots of unrelated youtube accounts, it took youtube a good week or so to get them sorted
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