{"id":205541,"date":"2025-10-06T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:38:11","slug":"round-rock-police-warn-against-viral-prank-using-ai-images-to-fake-home-invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205541\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Rock police warn against viral prank using AI images to fake home invasions"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROUND ROCK, Texas \u2014 Round Rock police are warning residents about a viral social media trend that has prompted false emergency calls after teenagers used AI-generated images to convince their parents of fake home invasions.<\/p>\n

The Round Rock Police Department said the trend, circulating on TikTok and other platforms, involves teens sending text messages and realistic AI-generated images to their parents depicting a stranger inside their home. The fabricated images often show what appears to be a homeless man sitting on a couch, standing in the kitchen or eating food.<\/p>\n

The hoaxes have led parents to call 911.<\/p>\n

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Round Rock officers responded to two such calls over the weekend, both confirmed to be hoaxes, police said in a statement Monday. No one was harmed in either incident.<\/p>\n

“Making false reports like these can tie up emergency resources and delay responses to legitimate calls for service,” the department said.<\/p>\n

Police urged parents to discuss the risks and potential legal consequences of participating in such trends with their children. Under Texas Penal Code 42.06, knowingly making a false report to law enforcement is a criminal offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROUND ROCK, Texas \u2014 Round Rock police are warning residents about a viral social media trend that has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,118131,181,507,118133,118132,1583,118129,74,16619,1153,118130],"class_list":{"0":"post-205541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-images","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-false-emergency-calls","13":"tag-home-invasions","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-round-rock","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-teenagers","18":"tag-tiktok","19":"tag-viral-prank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}