Reported Deepfake of Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela and Journalist Mark Laurence Zammit Used to Promote Fraudulent Investment
February 17, 2025
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- Alleged deployer
- scammers-impersonating-robert-abela-and-mark-laurence-zammit, unknown-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- robert-abela, mark-laurence-zammit, general-public-of-malta, general-public, epistemic-integrity
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/935
Data source
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