Description: In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election in January 2024, a deepfake video circulated showing candidate Lai Ching-te endorsing his rivals. Taiwanese intelligence issued warnings of intensified Chinese disinformation campaigns aimed at manipulating the election outcome.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: People's Liberation Army , Chinese Communist Party and Base 311 developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Taiwanese voters , Lai Ching-te , Electoral integrity , Democratic Progressive Party and Democracy.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
667
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-12-16
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
telegraph.co.uk · 2023
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At first, the short video of Lai Ching-te, one of Taiwan's three presidential election candidates, looks like any other campaign interview.
But on closer inspection, his speech is slightly stilted and his message -- endorsing his two rivals…
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.