{"id":190610,"date":"2025-10-10T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190610\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:13:14","slug":"poole-police-issue-warning-over-fake-ai-homeless-man-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190610\/","title":{"rendered":"Poole police issue warning over fake AI homeless man prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have issued a warning over a social media prank involving an &#8220;AI homeless man&#8221; entering people&#8217;s homes after receiving a call from a concerned parent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Police said it received a call from an &#8220;extremely concerned parent&#8221; last week who believed there was a man in their family home while their daughter was alone &#8211; but it turned out to be a prank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force added it used &#8220;valuable deployable resources&#8221; for the call which could have been used for a genuine emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have issued a warning over a social media prank involving an &#8220;AI homeless man&#8221; entering people&#8217;s homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190610","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\/190610","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=190610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}