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Uruguayan TV Program Santo y Seña Uses a Deepfake of Political Candidate Yamandú Orsi Without His Consent
- Occurred
- Oct 13, 2024
- Published
- Oct 13, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Uruguayan TV program Santo y Seña, hosted by Ignacio Álvarez, used AI to create a virtual representation of political candidate Yamandú Orsi, who declined an appearance. Nevertheless, without Orsi's permission, an AI-generated "Orsi" was shown alongside Andrés Ojeda, a rival candidate who appeared in person on the program.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Santo y Seña
- Canal 4
Harmed parties
- Yamandú Orsi
- Uruguayan electorate
- Uruguayan general public
- Democratic integrity
- Journalistic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: TV program used AI to generate a fake video of a political candidate without consent, constituting a deepfake incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8