Police Warn Public Over AI Homeless Man Social Media Prank
Dorset Police have issued a warning regarding a social media prank involving an AI homeless man entering people's homes. The warning follows a call from a concerned parent who believed a stranger was in their family home while their daughter was alone.
The trend is currently popular on TikTok and Snapchat, where users send AI-generated images to friends or parents. These images depict a fabricated stranger appearing to eat food, sleeping in a bed, and refusing to leave the recipient's house.
Last week, Dorset Police received a call from an extremely concerned parent. The parent believed a man was in their home, but it was later confirmed to be part of the social media prank.
The police force stated that it used valuable deployable resources responding to the call. These resources could have been utilised for a genuine emergency, prompting their public warning.
In a social media post, the force advised the public to attempt to verify if a message and accompanying pictures are a prank before dialling 999.
Dorset Police issued a warning about an AI homeless man social media prank.
The prank involves sending AI-generated images of a stranger in a home.
Police responded to a concerned parent's call that was later confirmed as a prank.
Source: BBC
