AI incident #1513 ·
Dimal Basha's Likeness Was Reportedly Used in Purportedly Fake AI-Generated Video After Kosovo Parliament Speaker Election
What happened
Minutes after Kosovo MPs elected Vetëvendosje's Dimal Basha as Parliament Speaker, a purportedly AI-generated Facebook video used his likeness to claim he was the father of Kosovo's Ashkali community, a Roma-related minority group that has faced long-running discrimination and political marginalization. The video reportedly received more than 80,000 views in under eight hours.
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Who was involved
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- Information Manipulation Actors, Deepfake Creators, Information Manipulation Actors In Kosovo
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- Deepfake Technology Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- National Security And Intelligence Stakeholders, General Public Of Kosovo, General Public, Epistemic Integrity, Dimal Basha, Democratic Integrity, Ashkali People, Ashkali Community In Kosovo, Minority Groups
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