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HOUSTONWe’ve been warning you for a while now that scammers can use Artificial Intelligence to create fake videos and con people out of money. But could you spot a deepfake video if it looks just like one of your friends?

Two Houston area women say they were both scammed by AI-generated videos of their friends. Then their images were used to create deepfakes to scam others.

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“It’s crazy. It kind of pissed me off,” said Stacey Svegliato.

Stacey says she received a video call on the Messenger app from what looked and sounded like her friend, Sara Sandlin.

“It was her talking to me, and it was going in and out, and all I could get was, ‘Hey, my Facebook’s been hacked,” said Stacey.

Stacey says she received an access code on her phone and sent it to …

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