Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes

July 1, 2017

Researchers at the University of Washington create a deepfake video featuring former President Obama, highlighting the need for responsible AI governance and trustworthy deepfakes. This incident maps to HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM's Measure function as it underscores the importance of monitoring deepfake incidents for harm prevention.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.630, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.617, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.608, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: university-of-washington, fakeapp
Alleged developer: university-of-washington, fakeapp
Alleged harmed parties: barack-obama

Source

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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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