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Deepfake Recordings Allegedly Influence Slovakian Election
- Occurred
- Oct 7, 2023
- Published
- Oct 3, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Days before Slovakia's election, deepfake audio recordings surfaced, allegedly featuring conversations between a journalist and a leading liberal politician discussing vote-rigging and other controversial topics. The recordings were spread on social media platforms and may have influenced the election outcome, which saw the pro-Russian populist party winning.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Slovakian electorate
- Monika Todova
- Michal Šimečka
- Democratic process in Slovakia
Tags
- Deepfake
- Election interference
- Political manipulation
- deepfakes
- elections
- Slovakia
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake audio recordings were used to influence an election outcome, representing significant harm to democratic processes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8