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Celebrities' Deepfake Voices Abused with Malicious Intent

January 30, 2023

Voices of celebrities and public figures were deepfaked using voice synthesis for malicious intents such as impersonation or defamation, and were shared on social platforms such as 4chan and Reddit.
Alleged deployer
reddit-users, elevenlabs-users, 4chan-users
Alleged developer
elevenlabs
Alleged harmed parties
public-figures, celebrities

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/508

Data source

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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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