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Purported Deepfake Images of Gráinne Seoige Reportedly Circulated During Ireland's 2024 General Election Campaign
- Occurred
- Feb 16, 2025
- Published
- Feb 16, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A reported deepfake abuse campaign targeted Gráinne Seoige during her run in Ireland's 2024 general election campaign, when pornographic, purportedly AI-generated images of her were reportedly circulated online. Seoige later described the experience as humiliating and traumatic, and Gardaí said they were investigating the distribution of the material.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology
Deployers
- Deepfake creators
- Information manipulation actors
Harmed parties
- Voters in Ireland
- Gráinne Seoige
- General public of Ireland
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- Democratic integrity
- Victims of deepfake abuse
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated pornographic images of a politician circulated during an election campaign, causing trauma and police investigation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8