Description: A deepfake video falsely depicted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines ordering an attack on China, exacerbating tensions in the West Philippine Sea. The video, designed to mislead, was promptly debunked by the Presidential Communications Office.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Ferdinand Marcos Jr. , Government of the Philippines , Philippines and General public.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
676
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-04-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
globalnation.inquirer.net · 2024
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MANILA, Philippines --- Amid simmering tensions in the West Philippine Sea, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) called for heightened vigilance against online content designed to sow confusion or mislead the public about the issue.…
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.