AI incident ·
Turkish National Reportedly Posted a Purportedly AI-Generated Image Depicting Himself with Eric Trump While Promoting Trump Hotel Dubai
In brief
An AI system built by Synthetic Media Generation Technology Developers, Synthetic Image Generation Technology Developers and 1 other and deployed by Synthetic Media Creators, Scammers and 3 others allegedly harmed Public Figures, Eric Trump and 2 others.
- Risk domain
- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 1 report
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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Source record: incident #1639 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report