Police have issued a warning over a social media prank involving an “AI homeless man” entering people’s homes after receiving a call from a concerned parent.
The trend is currently popular on TikTok and Snapchat, where people have sent AI-generated images to parents or friends of a stranger appearing to eat food, sleeping in a bed and refusing to leave their house.
Dorset Police said it received a call from an “extremely concerned parent” last week who believed there was a man in their family home while their daughter was alone – but it turned out to be a prank.
The force added it used “valuable deployable resources” for the call which could have been used for a genuine emergency.