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Manipulated Video Using AI-Generated Audio Targets Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif with Fabricated Interview
- Occurred
- Mar 23, 2025
- Published
- Mar 26, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A viral video falsely claimed to show Layal al-Ekhtiar of Al Arabiya confronting Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over funding a 30-person Umrah delegation with public money while seeking aid from Saudi Arabia. Investigators concluded the video had been dubbed with AI-generated audio. The original interview was broadcast by Saudi-owned Al Arabiya in January 2023, and it contained no such exchange. Lip-sync inconsistencies reportedly confirmed the manipulation.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Adil Raja
- Social media users
Harmed parties
- Layal al-Ekhtiar
- Shehbaz Sharif
- General public of Pakistan
Tags
- Deepfake
- Voice cloning
- Interview footage manipulation
- Disinformation
- Pakistan
- Al-Arabiya
- iVerify
- Manipulated media
- Synthetic media
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated audio and lip-sync manipulation used to create a fabricated political interview targeting a head of state.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8