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Scandalous streamer Adin Ross has a large fan base who are ready for any weirdness to attract attention – drown a car in a lake or something similar. Ross's broadcasts are usually accompanied by the promise of rewards for his destructive antics. With the help of a deepfake, the tiktoker managed to mislead his fans.
Tiktoker JohnJam11703 recently posted several videos of AI-generated fake Adin Ross tricking fans into breaking things. Using the Hugging Face AI repository, the video chat program Monkey, and archived recordings of Ross's streams, he created a pretty convincing clone that people took seriously.
In one example, he forced a child to throw a PlayStation 4 out of a window in exchange for a new TV and PlayStation 5. In another, JohnJam11703 convinced another child to break a TV for the promise of $500. One of JohnJam11703's most popular videos, posted on April 20, shows faux Adin Ross promising a child a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and $20,000 if he breaks through his bedroom wall. Having received permission from his mother, the kid did it with a bat. Looks like these kids won't get any gifts.
@johnjam11703 Replying to @b #fyp #adinross #monkeyapp ♬ original sound — john
JohnJam11703's commentators were divided in their opinions. Some people think these pranks are terrible, others find them funny and educational. It's amazing how gullible people can be: teenagers are capable of doing anything to get noticed by a celebrity. But considerable material damage was caused.
The real Adin Ross hasn't told Kotaku anything about the AI-created impostor trolling his fans. In February 2023, he himself was permanently banned from Twitch, after which he communicated with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy about lifting the ban. No further developments around the fake streamer have been reported yet.
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