DeepfakeMedium
"The Little Mermaid" Clip Doctored Using Generative AI to Replace Black Actress with White Character
- Occurred
- Sep 13, 2022
- Published
- Sep 16, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Twitter user reportedly modified using generative AI a short clip of Disney's 2022 version of "The Little Mermaid," replacing a Black actress with a white digital character.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- @TenGazillioinIQ
Harmed parties
- Halle Bailey
- Black actresses
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Generative AI used to alter media content by swapping actor identity, fitting deepfake definition.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8