{"id":477267,"date":"2026-05-10T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477267\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:36:14","slug":"chatgpt-images-2-0-is-becoming-a-market-fraud-tool-with-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477267\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Becoming a Market Fraud Tool with Deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><strong>Deepfakes have shifted from a niche concern to a mass-market threat. May&#8217;s incidents show how consumer-grade tools now outpace any institutional response.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The damage extends into crypto. Scammers leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to create impersonation scams.<\/p>\n<p>      The Deepfake Economy Is Here, and Detection Is Losing    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In early May 2026, AI-generated content showed up across politics, entertainment, and crime, as documented by Resemble AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">FBI Director Kash Patel posted a video that appeared to use AI to generate shots nearly identical to those in the Beastie Boys&#8217; &#8220;Sabotage&#8221; music video. Furthermore, an AI video of mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt drew 4.1 million views on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><strong>Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">These tools aren&#8217;t just being used for viral content. They are also fueling real financial harm. A Chicago man lost $69,000 to a scammer who flashed an AI-generated US Marshals badge on a video call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meanwhile, the Atlantic&#8217;s Lila Shroff found that OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT Images 2.0 can generate fake IDs, prescriptions, receipts, bank alerts, and news screenshots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"neo-blockquote yf-1kwbn3\">\n<p class=\"yf-1kwbn3\">\u201cAll of this makes it even harder for banks, hospitals, government agencies, and the like to prevent fraud,\u201d Shroff wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">404 Media exposed Haotian AI, a Chinese real-time deepfake software. Reporter Joseph Cox swapped faces on a live Teams call using this, proving the technology is functional, for sale, and already being used against real victims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"neo-blockquote yf-1kwbn3\">\n<p class=\"yf-1kwbn3\">\u201cThree of this week&#8217;s stories, Haotian AI, the Meloni deepfake, and the Patel FBI video, come from completely different categories and geographies, but they share a structural condition: the tools used to produce the harm are consumer-grade, widely available, and improving faster than any institutional response. Haotian AI costs a few hundred dollars and works on Teams. ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a subscription product,\u201d Resemble AI said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>      Crypto Also Bears the Cost     <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Crypto has become a prime target for AI-driven deception. According to Chainalysis, fraudsters are now pairing deepfakes, face-swap apps, and large language models with classic romance and investment cons, and the math favors them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The average AI-assisted crypto scam nets roughly $3.2 million, about 4.5 times the haul of a conventional scheme. Several cases underline the threat. In August 2025, attackers stole $2 million by impersonating the founder of Plasma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BeInCrypto has also reported on North Korean operatives running deepfake video calls on Zoom. Together, these incidents mark AI-powered impersonation as one of the sector&#8217;s most pressing security risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><strong>Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch leaders and journalists provide expert insights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AGI Timeline Just Got Scarily Close | Here\u2019s Why\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bV28gs-amoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Read the Original story <a href=\"https:\/\/beincrypto.com\/chatgpt-images-deepfake-financial-scam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Becoming a Market Fraud Tool with Deepfakes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Becoming a Market Fraud Tool with Deepfakes&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Becoming a Market Fraud Tool with Deepfakes<\/a> by Kamina Bashir at <a href=\"https:\/\/beincrypto.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:beincrypto.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;beincrypto.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">beincrypto.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deepfakes have shifted from a niche concern to a mass-market threat. 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