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Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Allegedly Misrepresented in Two Deepfake Videos on Foreign Relations
- Occurred
- Jun 21, 2024
- Published
- Jun 28, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Two deepfake videos falsely depicted Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong commenting on US-China relations and the South China Sea. The videos misleadingly attributed views to him and the Singapore government. Posted on TikTok, the videos amassed over 190,000 views before being removed.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown actors impersonating Lee Hsien Loong
Harmed parties
- Lee Hsien Loong
- Government of Singapore
- Singapore-United States relations
- Singapore-China relations
- Diplomacy
Tags
- Impersonation scam
- Deepfake
- Disinformation
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- Singapore
- United States
- China
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves synthetic media falsely depicting a political leader, causing misinformation but no physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8