{"id":178538,"date":"2025-10-04T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178538\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:19:12","slug":"gardai-warn-against-ai-home-intruder-social-media-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178538\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed warn against AI &#8216;home intruder&#8217; social media prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed have urged the public not to engage in a social media prank involving &#8220;AI-generated images of home intruders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, garda\u00ed said that the images have resulted in the emergency deployment of garda\u00ed to what they said were &#8220;ultimately hoax&#8221; reports of burglaries.<\/p>\n<p>The images, which have been circulated on social media, feature an AI-generated man placed into the homes of people who have been sent the images.<\/p>\n<p>The man is often pictured sitting on furniture or even lying in people&#8217;s beds.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is aware of a trending prank circulating on social media in which a loved one is sent an AI-generated image of a home intruder.<\/p>\n<p>Already on a number of occasions this has resulted in the emergency deployment of Garda\u00ed to an ultimately hoax report of burglary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZOJD34tyD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GZOJD34tyD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garda Info (@gardainfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gardainfo\/status\/1974134953433841837\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has then led to people believing there is an intruder in their home.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the callouts represent &#8220;a waste of garda resources and diverts from genuine emergency calls which require a response&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a risk that legitimate emergency calls will not receive the necessary urgent attention, which poses serious concerns for those who need our immediate assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge everyone not to engage in this prank and to consider the consequences that may result from such activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have urged the public not to engage in a social media prank involving &#8220;AI-generated images of home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}