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Purportedly AI-Generated Airport Videos Reportedly Showed Kosovo Diaspora Voters Supporting Albin Kurti
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In brief
An AI system built by Deepfake Technology Developers and Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers and deployed by Information Manipulation Actors and Deepfake Creators allegedly harmed National Security And Intelligence Stakeholders, General Public Of Kosovo and 4 others.
- Risk domain
- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 3 reports
What happened
Facebook pages are reported to have posted purportedly AI-generated airport-style interview videos falsely showing expatriates saying they would return on December 28 to vote for Albin Kurti. The videos reportedly used Pristina Airport settings and were assessed by fact-checkers' verification tools as AI-generated or deepfake content.
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News reports (3)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Information Manipulation Actors, Deepfake Creators
- Alleged harmed party
- National Security And Intelligence Stakeholders, General Public Of Kosovo, General Public, Epistemic Integrity, Democratic Integrity, Albin Kurti
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Source record: incident #1515 on the AI Incident Database · all 3 reports