SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City police are urging caution against scammers using artificial intelligence to impersonate police.
The warning comes after a Woods Cross resident reported receiving an email from what appeared to be a police account and featured a video message that used AI to impersonate Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown, police said in a statement Friday.
The video message used footage taken from an ABC4 interview of Brown from several years ago. The audio said the recipient had a wire transfer rejected and claimed the recipient still owed the federal government almost $100,000, police said…