Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation

March 21, 2023

AI-generated photorealistic images portraying former President Donald Trump being arrested, initially posted on Twitter for humor, were mistakenly disseminated across social media platforms as genuine news without the intended context. This underscores the need for responsible AI governance and the importance of Project Cerebellum's AI incident database in preventing harm and promoting safe and secure AI practices.

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MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.665, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.654, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: eliot-higgins
Alleged developer: midjourney
Alleged harmed parties: twitter-users, social-media-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/499

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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