AI incident #1639 ·
Turkish National Reportedly Posted a Purportedly AI-Generated Image Depicting Himself with Eric Trump While Promoting Trump Hotel Dubai
What happened
Turkish national Melih Göğebakan reportedly posted a purportedly AI-generated image on LinkedIn depicting himself alongside Eric Trump while promoting the Trump Hotel Dubai project. The image appeared amid a broader online persona in which Göğebakan allegedly portrayed himself as closely connected to Trump-affiliated organizations and U.S. political figures. He was separately accused of visa-related fraud, though reporting does not establish that the AI-generated image caused those losses.
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News reports (1)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Synthetic Media Creators, Scammers, Melih Gogebakan, Information Manipulation Actors, Deepfake Creators
- Alleged developer
- Synthetic Media Generation Technology Developers, Synthetic Image Generation Technology Developers, Deepfake Technology Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Public Figures, Eric Trump, Epistemic Integrity, American Public Figures
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