Description: Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign shared a video on Twitter featuring some AI-generated images of Donald Trump hugging former White House coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci, allegedly as a smear campaign. This incident is possibly the first time a major U.S. presidential campaign deployed deepfakes with the intention of misleading the electorate.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign, which harmed Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
547
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-06-05
Editors
Khoa Lam, Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
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547
Special Interest Intangible Harm
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yes
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2023
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06
Date of Incident Day
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05
Estimated Date
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No
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
547
Special Interest Intangible Harm
An assessment of whether a special interest intangible harm occurred. This assessment does not consider the context of the intangible harm, if an AI was involved, or if there is characterizable class or subgroup of harmed entities. It is also not assessing if an intangible harm occurred. It is only asking if a special interest intangible harm occurred.
yes
Date of Incident Year
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2023
Date of Incident Month
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06
Date of Incident Day
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05
Estimated Date
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No
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
factcheck.afp.com · 2023
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A new Ron DeSantis campaign video attacking Donald Trump purports to show three photos of the former president embracing Anthony Fauci, a key member of the US coronavirus task force, with kisses on the cheek. But the images have the marking…
washingtonpost.com · 2023
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You might want to take note of the following date: June 5, 2023. Because we might one day regard that as the date on which our politics very quietly crossed the Rubicon on AI-generated images.
Few people noticed until Thursday, but Florida …
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.
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