AI-Generated Fake Audio of Verbal Abuse Incident Circulates of British Labour Leader Keir Starmer

October 8, 2023

An instance of AI misuse was exposed when a deepfake audio clip, falsely portraying UK opposition leader Keir Starmer verbally abusing staff, circulated on social media. Upon investigation, the fabricated audio—complete with deceptive background noise—was discovered and debunked. This underscores the importance of implementing robust AI governance to prevent such incidents, especially as they can negatively impact trust in AI-driven technologies.

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Alleged deployer: unknown
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: uk-labour-party, keir-starmer

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/601

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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