Alleged Deepfake of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong Falsely Shows Him Endorsing Commercial Products
December 11, 2023
Wong publicly denied the endorsement and warned about the use of AI-generated deepfake technology for scams. He encouraged vigilance against such AI-driven activities and reported suspicious content through the ScamShield Bot on WhatsApp.
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- Alleged deployer
- scammers-impersonating-lawrence-wong, unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- lawrence-wong, general-public-of-singapore
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/987
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
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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