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Unknown AI image generator technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 8178 Report
Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

2024-09-24

During Hurricane Helene (September 24-29, 2024), purportedly AI-generated images circulated on social media, reportedly misleading the public and hindering disaster response efforts. Reportedly fake images including animals stranded on rooftops and political figures in floodwaters added confusion and disrupted emergency management. The spread of these images allegedly exacerbated existing challenges, including power outages and communication failures, all of which led to complications providing accurate information to those in need.

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Incident 8902 Report
AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media

2025-01-08

During the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, AI-generated images of the iconic Hollywood Sign being on fire circulated on social media.

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Incident 13012 Report
Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

2025-11-11

Purported deepfake images of exiled Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were reportedly mailed to neighbors and others in the UK and Australia in late 2025. The letters allegedly depicted altered sexual images and false advertisements portraying activists, including Carmen Lau, as sex workers. Police described the materials as malicious communications. The incidents were described by victims and officials as an escalation of transnational harassment and intimidation.

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Incident 13221 Report
Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

2025-12-26

A senior Indian National Congress leader in Kerala, N. Subrahmanian, was reportedly booked by police after sharing a digitally altered image on Facebook depicting Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan alongside a suspect in a gold theft case. Police reportedly stated that at least one circulated image was created using AI tools and that the post allegedly sought to provoke enmity and mislead the public.

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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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Unknown deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

Partisan social media influencers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

Unknown actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Unknown malicious actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Hurricane Helene victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Emergency responders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

Communities impacted by Hurricane Helene

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Unknown AI image generator developer

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 817
    8 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Images Reportedly Spread Misinformation During Hurricane Helene Response

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Entity

social media users

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 890
    2 Reports

    AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media

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Entity

Southern California residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 890
    2 Reports

    AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media

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Entity

Unknown AI image generators

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 890
    2 Reports

    AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media

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Entity

Grok AI

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 890
    2 Reports

    AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media

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Entity

Unidentified harassment campaign

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Suspected transnational repression actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Carmen Lau

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Ted Hui

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Ted Hui's wife

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Family members of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Associates of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Neighbors of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

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Entity

Unknown AI image generator

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1301
    2 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Allegedly Deployed in Transnational Harassment Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Exiles

  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Unknown disinformation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

N. Subrahmanian

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Pinarayi Vijayan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

General public of Kerala

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

General public of India

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1322
    1 Report

    Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

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