Incident 658: The Arizona Agenda Produced a Deepfake of Kari Lake Advocating for the Publication Without Her Consent
Responded
Description: The Arizona Agenda produced a deepfake video of Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake giving a testimonial about the publication with the seeming intention of educating the general public about the dangers of deepfakes in the coming election cycle. However, the Arizona Agenda appears not to have sought Lake's consent, prompting a cease-and-desist letter from her campaign.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: The Arizona Agenda and Hank Stephenson developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Kari Lake , General public , Journalism and Democracy.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
658
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2024-03-22
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
thehill.com · 2024
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Lauren Irwin post-incident response
The Arizona Agenda, a local newsletter covering state politics, made a deepfake of Kari Lake warning readers about the "terrifying new age" of artificial intelligence (AI) interference in elections.
"Hi, I'm Kari Lake. Subscribe to the Ariz…
washingtonpost.com · 2024
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Reis Thebault post-incident response
Hank Stephenson has a finely tuned B.S. detector. The longtime journalist has made a living sussing out lies and political spin.
But even he was fooled at first when he watched the video of one of his home state's most prominent congression…
azfamily.com · 2024
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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — We’re constantly hearing about advancements in artificial intelligence, which can lead to positive things like advancements in science and medicine.
At the same time, concerns about people using it for nefarious purpose…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.