{"id":58782,"date":"2025-10-03T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:53:09","slug":"kilkenny-homeowners-tricked-by-ai-generated-photos-showing-a-break-in-as-part-of-tiktok-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58782\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny homeowners tricked by AI-generated photos showing a break-in as part of TikTok prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">AI-generated photos are being used to trick homeowners into believing an intruder is in their house as part of a cruel TikTok prank\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed in Kilkenny have received a number of reports from concerned homeowners who have been tricked into thinking that an intruder is in their home\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c6674af1-f63a-4471-834f-05ed7cb69502.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garda\u00ed in Kilkenny have received a number of reports from concerned homeowners who have been tricked into thinking that an intruder is in their home<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A cruel TikTok trend that uses AI-generated photos to convince homeowners that someone has broken into their house is currently going viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed in Co Kilkenny say they have received a number of panicked calls from locals believing that a \u201crather dishevelled individual\u201d had broken into their home and was sitting on their couch or in other locations around their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated photos are being used to trick homeowners into believing an intruder is in their house as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,7499,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-58782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}