When a mom in Pennsylvania was accused of making a deep fake video, questions arose about what happens when artificial intelligence technology goes mainstream.
Raffaela Spone’s daughter Allie was a cheerleader on the Victory Vipers, one of the most competitive cheerleading squads in the state. Spone was accused of creating "deepfake" videos to trash her daughter’s rivals on the cheerleading squad.
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Raffaela Spone, 50, was arrested on March 4 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Police alleged she tried to smear three of her daughter s teammates on the Victory Vipers cheer squad by creating incriminating fake images of the them
One of the alleged deepfakes was a video showing one of the girls vaping and another showed a girl without clothes in a public space
In a bizarre twist on Friday prosecutors revealed that police do not have proof that Spone created the images or that they were manipulated at all
However they said they will still prosecute Spone for allegedly harassing the girls with text messages and phone calls from disguised numbers
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