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Rep. Mike Collins's Campaign Allegedly Produced Deepfake of Sen. Jon Ossoff Supporting the Government Shutdown
- Occurred
- Nov 10, 2025
- Published
- Nov 21, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Rep. Mike Collins's congressional campaign allegedly created and posted an AI-generated video that purportedly used Sen. Jon Ossoff's portrait and synthetic voice to falsely depict him supporting the ongoing government shutdown. The video was reportedly shared on the campaign's X account with a limited disclaimer. Georgia Democrats criticized the deepfake as misleading, and the campaign reportedly indicated it would continue using similar AI tactics.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Mike Collins
- Mike Collins's campaign
Harmed parties
- Jon Ossoff
- General public
- General public of Georgia
- Epistemic integrity
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Campaign used AI to create misleading synthetic video of politician, causing controversy but no physical harm or legal action yet.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8