DeepfakeMedium
Purported AI-Generated Video Reportedly Depicts Trump Criticizing Former Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua
- Occurred
- Jan 25, 2025
- Published
- Feb 14, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In late January and early February 2025, a video circulated on Facebook purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump calling former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua a "criminal" and criticizing his alleged misuse of AI. However, fact-checkers have reported the video was AI-generated. The footage appears to have been manipulated from Trump's inauguration speech on January 20, 2025, with reported mismatched lip movements and audio overlays.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Rigathi Gachagua
- Donald Trump
- General public of Kenya
- United States-Kenya relations
- Kenyan political discourse
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- voice cloning
- Donald Trump
- Kenya
- disinformation
- misinformation
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video used to deceive public about political figures, confirmed by fact-checkers.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8