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AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

July 24, 2026

A political video titled "It's Out of Your Control" reportedly used an AI-generated voice resembling Taiwan President Lai Ching-te while criticizing the government's response to a cooking-oil safety scandal. Police said the voice could be mistaken for Lai and later confirmed it was AI-generated. Opposition figures defended the video as political expression while prosecutors opened a forgery investigation.

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Alleged deployer
wei-chun-yu, synthetic-media-creators, political-operatives, information-manipulation-actors-in-taiwan, information-manipulation-actors
Alleged developer
voice-cloning-technology-developers, synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers, synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers, deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
youtube-users, public-figures, political-figures, lai-ching-te, general-public-of-taiwan, general-public, epistemic-integrity, democratic-integrity

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