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Broadway Performer and SiriusXM Host Seth Rudetsky Reportedly Lost Facebook Page Access in Purportedly AI-Assisted Scam Impersonating Comedian Nikki Glaser
- Occurred
- Aug 18, 2026
- Published
- Aug 18, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Broadway performer and SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky reportedly received a personalized invitation purportedly from comedian Nikki Glaser's podcast. After scammers guided him through Facebook permissions during a supposed technical setup, he lost access to his page; he said a former marketing company was also compromised. Reporting described the invitation as most likely AI-composed.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Scammers
- Cybercriminals
Harmed parties
- Targets of fraudulent professional opportunities
- Social media users
- Seth Rudetsky
- Public figures
- Nikki Glaser
- Facebook users
- Epistemic integrity
- Companies
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated content used in social engineering scam causing account compromise.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8