A bill tackling fraud committed through the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology would be submitted to the legislature for deliberation by the end of next month, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Ko Ju-chun (葛如鈞) recently urged awareness of AI-generated content in a plenary session by asking Premier Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) to tell which of two videos he showed was false. Both videos turned out to be false.
Fraud has caused serious financial losses to countries around the world, Anti-Fraud Office Director Lee Hsien-ming (李憲明) said.
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In terms of average losses per person last year, the top three countries were Singapore, Switzerland and Austria, with each victim reporting losses of US$4,031, US$3,767 and US$3,484 on average, statistics from the International Anti-Fraud Alliance (IAFA) showed.
Taiwan ranked 23rd in this regard, with average losses of US$1,200.
In terms of financial losses due to fraud as a share of GDP, the top three developing nations were 4.5 percent in Kenya, 3.6 percent in Vietnam, and 3.2 percent in Brazil and Thailand respectively, IAFA statistics showed.
Taiwan, which reported 0.8 percent, ranked 14th.
The UK on March 11 and 12 held the world’s first Global Fraud Summit, in which ministerial-level officials from seven major industrial countries (G7), the intelligence sharing alliance “Five Eyes,” as well as Singapore and South Korea, convened to address this important global issue, Lee said.
Next week, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are to jointly hold an international fraud prevention seminar, he said.
Lee said the Ministry of the Interior is drafting a special anti-fraud law and is scheduled to submit it to the Legislative Yuan late next month.
Cabinet spokesperson Lin Tze-luen (林子倫) said that the Executive Yuan has asked the Ministry of the Interior to take charge of gathering input on anti-fraud measures from various ministries, drafting an anti-fraud law and other supporting measures.
“We hope to achieve the goal of curbing fraud through these actions,” Lin said.
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