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Trump Reportedly Shares Purportedly AI-Generated Images Falsely Suggesting Taylor Swift Endorsement
- Occurred
- Aug 18, 2024
- Published
- Aug 24, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Donald Trump reportedly shared images that were purportedly generated by AI on social media that are alleged to have depicted Taylor Swift endorsing him for the upcoming election. The images reportedly included Swift dressed as Uncle Sam and fans wearing "Swifties for Trump" shirts.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Donald Trump
Harmed parties
- Taylor Swift
- Swifties
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated images used to falsely depict a public figure endorsing a political candidate.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8