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Can deep fakes empty your bank account?

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Waheed Adam, chairperson of iTouch, explains that the threats from AI and deep fakes are very real, and how one multinational company lost $25 million to a deep fake fraudster pretending to be the CEO. iTouch has developed a digital authentication system using tokenisation to beat this disturbing trend.

18 Sep 2024 English South Africa Tech News · Investing

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