Description: In late January and early February 2025, a video circulated on Facebook purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump calling former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua a "criminal" and criticizing his alleged misuse of AI. However, fact-checkers have reported the video was AI-generated. The footage appears to have been manipulated from Trump's inauguration speech on January 20, 2025, with reported mismatched lip movements and audio overlays.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developer and Unknown voice cloning technology developer developed an AI system deployed by unknown, which harmed Rigathi Gachagua , Donald Trump , General public of Kenya , United States-Kenya relations and Kenyan political discourse.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology , Unknown voice cloning technology and Facebook
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1052
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-01-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
IN SHORT: A video appears to show US president Donald Trump referring to former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua as a "terrible guy" and a "criminal" and is getting social media attention. But it is fake.
A video that appears to sho…
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.