Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Allegedly Misrepresented in Two Deepfake Videos on Foreign Relations
June 21, 2024
Two deepfake videos falsely depicted Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong commenting on US-China relations and the South China Sea. The videos misleadingly attributed views to him and the Singapore government. Posted on TikTok, the videos amassed over 190,000 views before being removed.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-actors-impersonating-lee-hsien-loong
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- lee-hsien-loong, government-of-singapore, singapore-united-states-relations, singapore-china-relations, diplomacy
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/988
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