Deepfake Video Incident: Ukrainian President's Image Misused - Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI
March 16, 2022
A deepfaked video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was spread on Ukrainian websites and social media, falsely suggesting a surrender to Russian forces during the conflict. This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI, guardrails for AI, and trustworthy AI in preventing such harm. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Are you ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- hackers
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- volodymyr-zelenskyy, ukrainian-social-media-users, ukrainian-public
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/198
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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