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Purported AI-Generated Videos Impersonating President of Malta Myriam Spiteri Debono Circulate on Social Media in Alleged Crypto Scam Campaigns

February 12, 2025

The Office of the President of Malta has issued a public warning regarding deepfake videos and fabricated images impersonating President Myriam Spiteri Debono. These alleged AI-generated contents have been linked to fraudulent financial schemes, mainly cryptocurrency scams, spreading on social media platforms. This incident highlights the need for trustworthy AI governance, safe and secure practices, and Project Cerebellum's efforts in maintaining an AI incident database for harm prevention.

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Alleged deployer
unknown-scammers, unknown-scammers-impersonating-myriam-spiteri-debono
Alleged developer
unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
myriam-spiteri-debono, office-of-the-president-of-malta, general-public-of-malta

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1056

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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