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Purported AI-Cloned Voice Depicts Kenyan President William Ruto Speaking French in Viral Video
- Occurred
- Feb 19, 2024
- Published
- Mar 8, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purportedly AI-manipulated video widely shared on TikTok and Facebook presents Kenyan President William Ruto speaking in French during a speech in Tokyo on February 7, 2024. A reported reverse image search confirmed the original footage shows Ruto speaking in English to the Kenyan diaspora. The reportedly manipulated version used AI-generated French audio over the original video, making it a case of voice cloning rather than a full audiovisual deepfake.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown actors manipulating footage of William Ruto
- Unknown actors
Harmed parties
- William Ruto
- General public of Kenya
Tags
- Deepfake
- Voice cloning
- Kenya
- Disinformation
- Misinformation
- Africa
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used to create misleading video of a head of state, causing potential misinformation but no physical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8