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  "title": "AI Safety & Scams Signals \u2014 VQV.me",
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      "external_url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/973943/google-earth-ai-image-generation-deepfake-tool",
      "title": "Google Earth\u2019s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day",
      "summary": "Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for...",
      "date_published": "2026-07-31T19:13:29+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2026-07-31T19:13:29+00:00",
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        "source_name": "The Verge AI",
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      "url": "https://vqv.me/s/VBoHY/",
      "external_url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5914652/google-adds-ai-to-satellite-images-raising-fears-of-deepfakes-in-the-sky",
      "title": "Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky",
      "summary": "Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: \"The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless,\" said one.",
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        "AI Safety & Scams",
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        "source_name": "NPR Technology",
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      "title": "AI Scammers More Effective Than Humans at Building Trust",
      "summary": "An AI chatbot has been found to create 'exploitable trust' more effectively than humans in scam scenarios. This suggests AI can be used to enhance the persuasiveness of fraudulent schemes.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-31T14:01:40+00:00",
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      "url": "https://vqv.me/s/PFJTm/",
      "external_url": "https://blog.google/security/android-fake-call-detection/",
      "title": "Android adds fake call detection to combat deepfake scams",
      "summary": "Android has introduced a fake call detection feature aimed at preventing deepfake scams. This new security measure helps users identify and avoid fraudulent calls generated using AI technology.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-03T15:30:34+00:00",
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        "AI Safety & Scams",
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        "source_name": "Hacker News",
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      "external_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/google-rolls-out-fake-call-detection-to-protect-against-ai-deepfake-impersonation-scams/",
      "title": "Google launches fake call detection to combat AI impersonation scams",
      "summary": "Google has introduced a fake call detection feature aimed at protecting users from AI-driven deepfake impersonation scams. This technology helps identify and block fraudulent calls that use AI to mimic real voices.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-02T19:18:29+00:00",
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      "title": "The Deepfakes We Missed: We Built Detectors for a Threat That Didn't Arrive",
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      "date_modified": "2026-05-12T13:02:13+00:00",
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      "title": "The Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World",
      "summary": "Hacker News surfaced this AI signal from 404media.co: The Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-08T23:09:50+00:00",
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      "summary": "Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Gemini are transforming digital platforms but also raising significant cybersecurity, privacy, and platform integrity challenges. Notably, LLM-assisted malware is projected to increase from 2% in 2021, highlighting escalating r...",
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      "external_url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17513v1",
      "title": "What You Read Isn't What You Hear: Linguistic Sensitivity in Deepfake Speech Detection",
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