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Josh Shapiro

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Incident 17781 Report
Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

2026-10-17

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity's campaign reportedly released an AI-generated video impersonating Gov. Josh Shapiro and placing first-person statements about harassment scandals, intimidated accusers, and hush money. The harassment allegations concerned a former aide. Shapiro's campaign denounced the ad as dishonest.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Stacy Garrity's gubernatorial campaign

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Stacy Garrity

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Politicians in the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Politicians

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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political campaigns

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Entity

Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Elected officials

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Democratic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Entity

Synthetic audio generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1778
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals

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