THE BRIEF: When one Albanese is barely enough...
By Matt Buchanan in Media News on Tuesday, 05th August 2025 at 7:52amToday Sam Buckingham Jones in the AFR reports a deep fake clone of a US-accented Anthony Albanese have appeared in a wave of AI generated scam ads targeting gullible Australians on YouTube. After years being bombarded with Mel Gibson trying to sell us Bitcoin, I'm pretty sure we should trust the Australian public to know a scam when it sees one.
Yes of course, these things are getting more sophisticated all the time but if this is any indication we’re not in the AI hall of mirrors just yet: “Greetings.” says Yankee doodle deepfake, Albo. “We will not fully get rid of taxes of course but any resident will be able to receive dividends from them” before going to try and chisel viewers out of $400 to invest in a platform called AUFIRST.
(Hmm. The word “fully” do...
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