{"id":168362,"date":"2025-11-07T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:34:11","slug":"berkshire-warns-of-ai-deepfakes-impersonating-warren-buffett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168362\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire warns of AI deepfakes impersonating Warren Buffett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) –Warren Buffett<\/a> has a message for people who generate or view AI-created impersonations of him. There’s only one \u200bOracle of Omaha.<\/p>\n

Berkshire Hathaway said on Thursday that videos using AI-generated images of \u200cits longtime chief executive are circulating on YouTube, featuring comments he never made.<\/p>\n

The 95-year-old investor, \u200cknown for his market instincts and long-held nickname \u201cthe Oracle of Omaha,\u201d has increasingly become a target for AI impersonators.<\/p>\n

While the visuals often mimic Buffett, Berkshire said the audio typically features flat, generic speech that “clearly” is not his voice.<\/p>\n

In \u2060a press release titled \u201c\u200cIt\u2019s Not Me,\u201d the company highlighted one video, \u201cWarren Buffett: The #1 Investment Tip For Everyone Over \u200d50 (MUST WATCH),\u201d in which an impersonated voice offers investment advice.<\/p>\n

“Individuals who are less familiar with Mr. Buffett may believe these videos are real and be misled by the \u200bcontents,” Berkshire said. “Mr. Buffett is concerned that these \u200ctypes of fraudulent videos are becoming a spreading virus.”<\/p>\n

The rise of deepfake technology and AI-driven voice tools has made it easier to produce realistic forgeries of public figures, intensifying concerns over misinformation and reputational damage.<\/p>\n

In May, the FBI reported that malicious actors had used AI-generated voice calls and text messages to impersonate senior U.S. \u2060officials in attempts to access government employees\u2019 personal \u200baccounts.<\/p>\n

Buffett has previously complained about people pretending to be \u200bhim, including through increasingly convincing AI-based impersonations.<\/p>\n

In October 2024, two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Buffett warned of “\u200dfraudulent claims” that \u2060he had endorsed political candidates and investment products.<\/p>\n

He has largely stepped back from political endorsements after supporting former President Barack Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Buffett will step \u2060down as Berkshire\u2019s chief executive at the end of the year and will be succeeded by Vice \u200cChairman Greg Abel.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Pritam Biswas in Bengaluru and Jonathan Stempel \u200cin New York; Editing by Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) –Warren Buffett has a message for people who generate or view AI-created impersonations of him. There’s only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,615,18,19,96609,17,96608,82,617],"class_list":{"0":"post-168362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-berkshire-hathaway","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-impersonations","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-oracle-of-omaha","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-warren-buffett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115509858342032110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}