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AI-generated faces and voice cloning enter Australian sextortion campaignsABC reported that overseas criminal groups are using fake accounts, AI-generated characters, face-swapping and voice cloning to target Australian young men. South Australia Police said men made up three of four sextortion victims, while eSafety data cited in the report found that two in five adolescents had seen non-intimate images turned into sexualised fakes.→A fake polling firm exposes the political cost of synthetic realityThe firm described the fabricated polling as a short-term social experiment, but the results entered political discussion before being exposed. Axios linked the episode to broader risks from fake accounts, deepfakes and synthetic engagement.→Deepfake evaluation shifts towards localisation and interpretationThe second Deepfake Detection, Localization and Interpretability Challenge uses a multimodal deepfake description dataset enriched with Qwen3-VL. It evaluates more than image-level classification by targeting localisation and interpretable traces of manipulation.→