The FBI is warning parents about new online safety threats targeting students.
FBI Special Agent Eric Burns told Scripps News Colorado Springs cases involving adults posing as children online are happening more often, and sometimes they’ll use artificial intelligence to illegally engage with kids.
“They’ll use a voice-over AI to make it sound like they’re a kid as well on the receiving end on the gaming platforms,” Burns said. “Also, through the other communication platforms and certainly on the other platforms that kids and everybody uses. WhatsApp, Snapchat, all these different communication platforms that are being used. The criminals are on there too, using AI to make them look like somebody they’re not.”…