Deepfake Video of Ukrainian President Yielding to Russia Posted on Ukrainian Websites and Social Media

March 16, 2022

A deepfaked video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, encouraging surrender to Russian forces during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, was disseminated on various Ukrainian websites and social media platforms. Such incidents underscore the urgent need for safe and secure AI practices.

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Alleged deployer: hackers
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: volodymyr-zelenskyy, ukrainian-social-media-users, ukrainian-public

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/198

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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