Alleged Use of Purportedly AI-Generated and Manipulated Media to Misrepresent Candidates and Disrupt Turkey's 2023 Presidential Election
May 11, 2023
During Turkey's 2023 presidential election, reportedly manipulated and allegedly AI-generated videos, audio, and images were used to smear candidates, purportedly link opposition figures to terrorist groups, and circulate a purported sex tape that reportedly contributed to presidential candidate Muharrem İnce’s withdrawal. These incidents reportedly misled voters, disrupted campaigning, and altered the electoral field.
- Alleged deployer
- supporters-of-recep-tayyip-erdogan, government-of-russia-aligned-actors
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers, unknown-generative-ai-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- muharrem-ince, kemal-kilicdaroglu, general-public, general-public-of-turkey, epistemic-integrity, electoral-integrity, democracy, truth, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/544
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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