DeepfakeMedium
Campaign Featuring Purported AI-Generated Audio Attributed to Omar al-Bashir Spreads During Sudanese Conflict
- Occurred
- Aug 20, 2023
- Published
- Oct 23, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Beginning in late August 2023, a TikTok channel called The Voice of Sudan circulated purported AI-generated audio claiming to be leaked recordings of former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. Experts identified several recordings as voice-cloned fabrications, derived from unrelated broadcasts by a political commentator. The campaign emerged during Sudan's civil war and appeared designed to influence political perceptions. TikTok later removed the account for violating synthetic media policies.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- The Voice of Sudan
Harmed parties
- Omar al-Bashir
- General public of Sudan
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Tags
- deepfake
- voice cloning
- impersonation
- misinformation
- disinformation
- synthetic media
- TikTok
- Sudan
- civil conflict
- media manipulation
- political destabilization
- false attribution
- The Voice of Sudan
- war propaganda
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated voice cloning used to spread misinformation during conflict, removed by platform.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8