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Purported Deepfake Audio Reportedly Sparks False Claims of Biden Threatening Texas with F-15s
- Occurred
- Jan 13, 2024
- Published
- Jan 18, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purportedly AI-generated audio clip imitating President Biden’s voice reportedly circulated on social media, falsely suggesting that he had threatened to deploy F-15 fighter jets against Texas. The manipulated recording was widely shared and is reported to have heightened political tensions and spread misinformation.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Texas officials
- Texas citizens
- Joe Biden
- General public
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated audio mimicking a political figure spreading misinformation fits deepfake category with medium severity due to misinformation spread.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8