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Lai Ching-te

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 16476 Report
AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

2026-07-24

A political video titled "It's Out of Your Control" reportedly used an AI-generated voice resembling Taiwan President Lai Ching-te while criticizing the government's response to a cooking-oil safety scandal. Police said the voice could be mistaken for Lai and later confirmed it was AI-generated. Opposition figures defended the video as political expression while prosecutors opened a forgery investigation.

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Incident 6671 Report
Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

2023-12-16

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, such as Spamouflage, aimed at manipulating the election outcome.

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Related Entities
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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People's Liberation Army

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Chinese Communist Party

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Base 311

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Taiwanese voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Democratic Progressive Party

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Democratic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Wei Chun-yu

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Political operatives

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Information manipulation actors in Taiwan

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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YouTube users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Political figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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General public of Taiwan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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YouTube

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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Synthetic audio generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1647
    6 Reports

    AI-Generated Voice Mimicking Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Reportedly Used in Political Video Criticizing Government Food-Safety Response

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