Deepfake Generated by the Lincoln Project of Trump's Father Used in Political Attack Ad
February 17, 2024
The Lincoln Project used AI to create a deepfake video of Donald Trump's deceased father criticizing him. Although they made it clear that the video was a deepfake, the deeply personal nature of the attack represents a corrosive use of artificial intelligence in undermining democratic norms during an election cycle.
- Alleged deployer
- lincoln-project
- Alleged developer
- lincoln-project
- Alleged harmed parties
- public-discourse-integrity, political-integrity, general-public, donald-trump
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