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flag In early 2025, AI voice deepfakes fooled Italian business leaders, including Armani and Bertelli, into sending money by mimicking Italy’s defence minister.

flag In early 2025, AI-powered voice deepfakes were used in a scam targeting Italian business leaders, including Giorgio Armani and Patrizio Bertelli, with fraudsters mimicking Defence Minister Guido Crosetto to demand ransom payments. flag The convincing synthetic voices, created using deep learning and natural language processing, tricked at least one victim into sending money before authorities froze the transfer. flag Experts warn that AI voice cloning is becoming increasingly accessible and realistic, with studies showing most people cannot distinguish synthetic from real voices, raising alarms about fraud, identity theft, and misinformation.

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