Deepfake Elon Musk to scam people out of their savings

It’s gotten relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and to generate speech to sound like a specific person. So of course scammers are using the tools that are readily available to steal people’s life savings. For the New York Times, Stuart A. Thompson shows how deepfake Elon Musk videos are used in fake ads to promote junk.

I can’t see how any of this ends well for us.