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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

AI-Generated Deepfakes Used for Targeted Harassment and Extortion

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Generative AI enables bad actors to produce convincing deepfakes for harassment, impersonation, and extortion against specific individuals. Boards must assess liability exposure and reputational risk where such tools are misused by or against their organisations.

Domain

Security & Privacy

Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards (EPIC2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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