Wjy spotting deepfakes is harder than you think NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

It was a bizarre story that made national headlines. Scammers, appearing to use artificial intelligence, to try to dupe Lauren Albrecht, a South Florida title company owner who said as soon as she saw a video of a woman during a zoom call, she knew it was fake.

“After the second pause I realized, this is 100% a video, playing on a loop,” she told NBC6. “It is not real.”

The zoom call, she told NBC6 back in September, was to verify if the woman pictured in an ID provided during a sale, was real. The woman’s name was supposedly Margaret Ann McCartney, the owner and seller of a vacant lot in South Florida. But it turned out, scammers were trying to dupe the title company. The image was actually of Margit Prichard, a woman who was reported missing in Mendocino County, California in 2018.

“We had hundreds of searchers …