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Purported Deepfake Video Falsely Depicts Biden Announcing National Draft for Ukraine

Occurred
Feb 27, 2023
Published
Feb 28, 2023
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

A purportedly AI-generated deepfake video falsely depicting President Biden announcing a national draft to support Ukraine was reportedly shared on social media, causing widespread misinformation. The video reportedly misled the public until debunked by fact-checkers.

Developers

  • Deepfake technology developers
  • Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Deployers

  • Jack Posobiec
  • @ThePatriotOasis

Harmed parties

  • Ukraine
  • Joe Biden
  • General public
  • Biden administration
  • General public of the United States
  • General public of Ukraine
  • Relations between the United States and Ukraine
  • Epistemic integrity
  • National security and intelligence stakeholders

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: AI-generated video used to spread misinformation about a political figure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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