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Northern Ireland MLA Cara Hunter Allegedly Targeted by Deepfake Pornography Ahead of May 2022 Assembly Election

April 15, 2022

In April 2022, ahead of the May 5, 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Member of the Legislative Assembly Cara Hunter was reportedly targeted in a deepfake pornography incident. A fake video depicting her in explicit scenarios circulated widely on WhatsApp. Despite efforts by law enforcement to trace the origins of the video, they have been unsuccessful as of yet. It is further alleged that approximately six months after the initial incident, she was the target of at least 15 more AI-generated deepfakes depicting her likeness in underwear.

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Alleged deployer
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Alleged developer
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Alleged harmed parties
voters-in-northern-ireland, truth, epistemic-integrity, electoral-integrity, east-londonderry-constituents, democracy, cara-hunter

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/903

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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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