Purported Deepfake Video Falsely Depicts Biden Announcing National Draft for Ukraine
February 27, 2023
A purportedly AI-generated deepfake video falsely depicting President Biden announcing a national draft to support Ukraine was reportedly shared on social media, causing widespread misinformation. The video reportedly misled the public until debunked by fact-checkers.
- Alleged deployer
- jack-posobiec, @thepatriotoasis
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- ukraine, joe-biden, general-public, biden-administration, general-public-of-the-united-states, general-public-of-ukraine, relations-between-the-united-states-and-ukraine, epistemic-integrity, truth, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/713
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