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

October 8, 2023

An AI-generated audio clip, purporting to show UK opposition leader Keir Starmer verbally abusing staff, was debunked as fake. The clip, circulated on social media, was analyzed and found likely manipulated, with added background noise to evade detection.
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

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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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