Deepfake Recordings Allegedly Influence Slovakian Election

October 7, 2023

Deepfake audio recordings allegedly influenced the outcome of Slovakia's election, featuring conversations between a journalist and a leading liberal politician discussing vote-rigging and other contentious matters. Such incidents underscore the urgent need for safe and secure AI practices in governance.

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MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.632, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.625, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 6.2 — similarity 0.610, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: unknown
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: slovakian-electorate, monika-todova, michal-simecka, democratic-process-in-slovakia

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/573

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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