DeepfakeHigh
Alleged AI-Generated Video by Spain’s People’s Party Results in Diplomatic Fallout with the Dominican Republic
- Occurred
- Mar 5, 2025
- Published
- Mar 7, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Spain's People's Party (PP) posted an AI-generated attack video depicting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on a beach under the title "The Island of Corruption," a reference to a reality TV show filmed in the Dominican Republic, indirectly linking the country to corruption. The Dominican Foreign Ministry condemned the video as a "vicious attack" for using its national symbols. PP later deleted the post, and Sánchez apologized on behalf of Spain.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- People's Party (Spain)
- Partido Popular
Harmed parties
- Pedro Sánchez
- Government of Spain
- Government of the Dominican Republic
- Relations between Spain and the Dominican Republic
Tags
- Deepfake
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- International incident
- Spain
- Dominican Republic
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated video used to deceive and cause diplomatic incident, fitting deepfake category with high severity due to international fallout.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8