DeepfakeMedium
Deepfake Generated by the Lincoln Project of Trump's Father Used in Political Attack Ad
- Occurred
- Feb 17, 2024
- Published
- Feb 17, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The Lincoln Project used AI to create a deepfake video of Donald Trump's deceased father criticizing him. Although they made it clear that the video was a deepfake, the deeply personal nature of the attack represents a corrosive use of artificial intelligence in undermining democratic norms during an election cycle.
Developers
- Lincoln Project
Deployers
- Lincoln Project
Harmed parties
- Public discourse integrity
- Political integrity
- General public
- Donald Trump
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves AI-generated synthetic media used in political attack ad, causing controversy over democratic norms.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8