Deepfakes Derail Florida Politician's Career: Harm Prevention in AI Incidents

February 5, 2021

Sabrina Javellana, a Florida politician, suffered emotional distress after AI-generated deepfake pornography was spread online in February 2021. This incident highlights the need for guardrails and responsible AI use. To prevent such occurrences and foster trustworthy AI, consider joining Project Cerebellum's community JOIN US. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
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Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/759

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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