How South-East Asia’s pig butchering scammers are using artificial intelligence technology

The video shows a young Asian man with stubbly facial hair and blond tips sitting in a gaming chair in a messy bedroom.

Over the next minute his face cycles through more than a dozen different genders and ethnicities.

It’s not just another new TikTok filter.

The video is advertising a real-time deepfake face-swapping system reportedly being employed by South-East Asian crime syndicates in so-called “pig butchering” cyberscam operations.

Experts say the technology and other new artificial intelligence (AI) tools — such as generative AI…