“False. Don’t imagine the scammers. They use my name and photo and even my AI voice to persuade people,” she said.
“They also took my live footage to trap and scam people.”
The singer urged people to lift awareness about such scams, emphasizing: “I even have never organized any contests or offered money prizes to anyone. Don’t get scammed by receiving such messages and video calls.”
Siti Nurhaliza said many scammers took advantage of her identity and image, often targeting elderly people.
Malaysian Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has urged residents to be wary of scams that spread fake videos and pictures or deepfakes created using artificial intelligence.
He noted that Siti Nurhaliza showed in her Instagram post “a WhatsApp video call that made it seem like she was talking when in fact it was a live deepfake.”
“AI can be used for both good and bad purposes,” he told the ministry’s monthly meeting on Monday, Bernama reported. “We need to be cautious about the information we receive and ensure that any video we receive is authentic or produced with an AI application.”
Fahmi called on news agency Bernama and Radio Televisyen Malaysia to publicise and educate the general public on the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) scams in the shape of deepfakes.
Artificial intelligence will be used for each good and evil… We must be careful
“I hope Meta will address the issue of AI-generated deepfakes, because WhatsApp is Meta’s responsibility,” he said.
Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf, director of the Bukit Aman Economic Crimes Investigation Department, appealed to victims of scams involving the distribution of faux videos and pictures created using artificial intelligence to report them to the police.
“These sorts of scams are happening increasingly more often and we expect them to proceed to occur… deepfakes are indeed very difficult to detect [to tackle] because they require verification from victims,” he said, in accordance with Bernama.
