Deepfake videos of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto offering aid lured people across 20 provinces into paying 250,000 to one million rupiah "administrative fees" for aid that never came. Police say they arrested a suspect who pocketed 65 million rupiah and detained a second person in another deepfake scam; AFP found at least 22 TikTok accounts pushing the scheme.
Freedom of Information figures obtained by Scottish Conservative MSP Miles Briggs show Scottish universities recorded 1,051 academic misconduct cases involving AI misuse in 2023/24, up from 131 in 2022/23, though many only recently began recording them. Abertay University accounted for 351 cases, upholding 342; Briggs called the trend "hugely worrying".
Actor Vidya Balan warned on Instagram that multiple videos circulating on social media and WhatsApp that appear to feature her are "AI-generated and inauthentic". She said she had no involvement in their creation or dissemination, does not endorse their content, and urged people to verify information before sharing.
Two images showing cricketer Shreyas Iyer posing with actor-choreographer Dhanashree Verma circulated on social media as recent photos, but The Quint's WebQoof team found them AI-generated: one showed Verma with mismatched eye colours, and detection tools Sight Engine and Hive Moderation rated the second 99 and just over 88 percent likely AI.
