Deepfakes and Misinformation: The Role of AI in Fake Speeches

This incident involving a deepfake of former President Obama highlights the potential dangers of misusing AI for malicious purposes. Deepfakes pose significant threats to information integrity, trust, and public discourse. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US For a safer and more responsible digital future, let's work together to establish guardrails for AI development and governance.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/39

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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