its recommendations, the report calls for standardized digital forensic capabilities, enhanced cross-border cooperation, investment in AI literacy among law enforcement officer

How about free information literary education for the public?

these AI-generated digital personas can bypass even advanced biometric verification systems

ffs, biometrics was always the weakest form of authentication! What did you expect?!?

cybercrime-related losses have more than doubled, from USD 192 million to USD 484 million, driven primarily by AI-facilitated scams
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Digital sextortion and online harassment, often facilitated by AI-generated deepfakes…

This article reads like “oh no! Africa is cutting into the profits of scammers from the global North! We have to make it illegal there, so they don’t reduce the profit margins from our scams!”

Oh no :( now emails from my Nigerian Prince Uncle will have less grammatical errors

making attacks faster, more scalable

That’s a really good ad. Someone should do an “honest advertisements” video from " Big AI" with this tagline.

Now do crimes by rich people outside Africa.

I mean, cybercrime is often just throwing the dumbest thing possible at the wall and waiting for someone to prove they are even dumber, no?

Good fit for the current LLM industry.

“in Africa”