From Mashable
If you think you’re talking to an LPGA golfer online, no you’re not
By Chance Townsend
As it turns out, she’s just not that into you. Not because of who you are — but because she doesn’t exist.
That’s the grim reality facing women in professional golf right now. As The Athletic reports in its “Stalking in Sports” series, LPGA athletes are increasingly being impersonated in catfishing scams that prey on older men, leaving players to deal with the fallout — harassment at tournaments, threats at home, and genuine fear for their safety...
“The current U.S. laws on the use of another person’s likeness are, at best, outdated and were not designed for the age of generative AI,” UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid told Mashable earlier this year. Farid also said that with just "20 seconds of a person’s voice and a single photograph of them," scammers can easily create convincing deepfake videos...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
