Martin Lewis has furiously hit out on Instagram after an AI-generated video of his wife, Lara Lewington, being ‘beaten up’ did the rounds online.
The star, 53, lashed out at social media firms with a strongly worded statement last night (Monday, March 9).
Martin Lewis slams video of wife Lara being ‘beaten up’
Taking to Instagram last night, an angry Martin wrote: “If I’d thought the [bleeping] scammers couldn’t sink any lower – now they have now done deep fake ads with a supposed video of my wife @laralewlew being beaten up by an ‘immigrant’ as he was refused entry to ‘Martin Lewis’ Quantum AI’ investment scheme as it isn’t for ‘outsiders’.
“We’ve had worried messages from friends. Social media firms have no problem taking money to publish this offensive, fake, organised criminals’ attempts to rip people off!” he then continued.
“Clearly, if you see these, please report them. Yet I have no faith in any of these firms to clear up this crap, as they’re earning too much. And the implementation of the scam ads rules in the Online Safety Act keep being delayed and delayed,” he then added.
Fans send their support
Taking to the comments, fans sent their support to Martin and Lara.
“AI is getting out of control! It should be illegal to be using someone else’s image to make AI videos, and quite rightly, social media outlets need to be removing them!” one follower wrote.
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