Description: A deepfake video falsifying President Maia Sandu's image and voice was released in Moldova, portraying her in a negative light to sow division and undermine democratic institutions. This video appeared on Telegram and was linked to Russian disinformation efforts.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake creator and Russian propagandists developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Presidency of Moldova , Maia Sandu , Government of Moldova , General public and Democracy.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
666
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-12-29
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
balkaninsight.com · 2023
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Madalin Necsutu post-incident response
The Presidency of Moldova on Friday denied statements attributed to President Maia Sandu in a new deepfake video made with the help of artificial intelligence, AI.
"In the context of the hybrid war against Moldova and its democratic leaders…
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.
