LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A woman in South Los Angeles was conned out of thousands of dollars in an alarming scam involving artificial intelligence and a popular "General Hospital" star.

A deepfake video of actor Steve Burton, who plays Jason Morgan on the ABC soap opera, was used to scam the woman out of more than $80,000. 7 On Your Side Investigates showed the video to AI experts, who said the video was likely made with AI software that cloned Burton's voice and image.

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So how easy is it to make a dupe video like that?

"Whatever you have online, people can take and use," explained Kathleen Grace , the chief strategy officer for Vermillio , a company that scours social media websit

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