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Deepfake Video Featured Fictitious News Anchors Discussing Venezuela's Economy

February 15, 2023

Video featuring fictitious news anchors was created using Synthesia to allegedly spread disinformation about Venezuela's economy on social media and Venezuelan state-run broadcast.
Alleged deployer
unknown
Alleged developer
synthesia
Alleged harmed parties
venezuelan-people, social-media-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/487

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