{"id":659630,"date":"2026-05-09T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:44:16","slug":"inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659630\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOh my god. Oh my god,\u201d I yelled as I looked at my own face on someone else\u2019s body. It was all there: my five o\u2019clock shadow, my goofy grin, even the bags under my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I was on a Microsoft Teams call interacting with this deepfake version of myself in realtime. Ordinarily the other person on the line looks nothing like me, but by using a gaming laptop and a sought-after, cutting edge piece of software for scammers, his face morphed into mine. My deepfake pinched his cheek, covered his nose, and stroked his chin, all without the illusion breaking.<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOh my god. Oh my god,\u201d I yelled as I looked at my own face on someone else\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-659630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}