DeepfakeMedium
Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign Released Deepfakes Attacking Ron DeSantis
- Occurred
- May 24, 2023
- Published
- May 25, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Former President Donald Trump released two AI-generated videos using deepfaked voices to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The first video, posted on platforms like Rumble and Instagram, depicted a chaotic and offensive fake Twitter Spaces event featuring deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Dick Cheney, Adolf Hitler, and a generated voice of Satan. The second video showed a rocket with "Ron 2024" written beside it falling and exploding before liftoff.
Developers
- Deepfake creators
Deployers
- Donald Trump presidential campaign
Harmed parties
- Ron DeSantis
- Elon Musk
- George Soros
- Klaus Schwab
- Dick Cheney
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves AI-generated deepfake videos used in political campaign to mock opponent.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8