Alain Chabat warns against a “scam” using his image

Alain Chabat is not promoting a supposed investment program. Actor and director Alain Chabat warns against a ” scam ” on the Internet using his name and image through a fake interview in favor of a supposed investment program, his artistic agent told AFP on Tuesday.

« This scam found on the Cronetrix Form program website uses and misuses the image and words of Alain Chabat, without his knowledge. “, underlines Bertrand de Labbey.

« Through this communication approach, Alain Chabat is concerned to prevent gullible Internet users from being victims of abuse of trust and from being trapped by this site or others of the same nature. “, adds the agent of the actor and director.

A web page fraudulently using the daily’s logo The World and referring to Cronetrix Form publishes a fake written interview with Alain Chabat illustrated with images taken from an old interview. Alain Chabat of course has no connection whatsoever with Cronetrix Form or with these alleged methods of easy enrichment via investments in social banking programs, and (…) this is a pure scam “, his agent said.

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Repeated scams

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence, this type of scam is multiplying, in even more sophisticated forms. In August, a video using the image of the recently deceased actor Alain Delon to attract Internet users to an online casino was viewed more than two million times on social networks, before being deactivated. Florent Pagny also denounced a scam by ” deepfake ” using an old video message posted on his social networks, with new lyrics. ” This is my voice. This is me speaking, but I never filmed this… This is the film I made in 2022 to announce my (health, editor’s note) problem and cancel the end of my tour “, the singer had specified.

THE ” deepfakes “, hyper-realistic content rigged using AI, fuels a wave of disinformation that affects many personalities and arouses concern, particularly before elections, such as the American presidential election.