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Purported AI-Generated Audio Was Reportedly Used to Claim Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Expressed Support for Imran Khan in Pakistani Parliament
- Occurred
- Feb 15, 2025
- Published
- Feb 28, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A reported viral video that was circulated in Pakistan featured purported AI-generated audio depicting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressing support for jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan during his 2025 visit. The video is described as having reused footage from 2020 and featured AI-generated audio that fabricated remarks Erdoğan never made. The synthetic voice was reportedly confirmed by forensic tools and audio analysis.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology
Deployers
- Unknown actors
Harmed parties
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
- Pakistan-Turkey relations
- Imran Khan
- General public of Turkey
- General public of Pakistan
Tags
- Voice cloning
- Deepfake
- Video reuse
- Synthetic voice
- Synthetic media
- Political disinformation
- Misattribution
- Misinformation
- Disinformation
- Epistemic
- Social media
- Pakistan
- Turkey
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated audio used to fabricate political statements constitutes a deepfake incident with potential misinformation harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8