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Trump Reportedly Shares Purportedly AI-Generated Images Falsely Suggesting Taylor Swift Endorsement

August 18, 2024

Donald Trump reportedly shared images that were purportedly generated by AI on social media that are alleged to have depicted Taylor Swift endorsing him for the upcoming election. The images reportedly included Swift dressed as Uncle Sam and fans wearing "Swifties for Trump" shirts.
Alleged deployer
donald-trump
Alleged developer
unknown-image-generator-developer, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
taylor-swift, swifties, general-public, electoral-integrity, democracy, epistemic-integrity

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/766

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