DeepfakeMedium
Deepfake Video Targets Paul Vallas on Eve of Chicago Mayoral Election
- Occurred
- Feb 27, 2023
- Published
- Feb 27, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On the eve of Chicago's mayoral election, a deepfake video impersonating candidate Paul Vallas was posted to Twitter, showing a fake audio of him making inflammatory statements. The video was viewed thousands of times before being taken down. The Vallas campaign condemned the video, calling it a deceptive impersonation.
Developers
- Deepfake creators
Deployers
- Chicago Lakefront News
Harmed parties
- Paul Vallas
- Paul Vallas's campaign
- Chicago voters
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Synthetic media used to impersonate a political candidate and spread misinformation before an election.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8