Description: A deepfake video of State Department spokesman Matthew Miller falsely suggested Belgorod was a legitimate target for Ukrainian strikes. This disinformation spread on Telegram and Russian media, misleading the public and inciting tensions. U.S. officials condemned the deepfake. This incident is an example of the threat of AI-powered disinformation and hybrid attacks.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake creators developed an AI system deployed by Russian government, which harmed Matthew Miller , Department of State and Biden administration.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
702
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-05-31
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
nytimes.com · 2024
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A day after U.S. officials said Ukraine could use American weapons in limited strikes inside Russia, a deepfake video of a U.S. spokesman discussing the policy appeared online.
The fabricated video, which is drawn from actual footage, shows…
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.
