DeepfakeMedium
AI-Generated Profiles Used in Disinformation Campaign Targeting Ukrainians
- Occurred
- Feb 25, 2022
- Published
- Feb 28, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
According to security reports by Meta, fictitious personas with GAN-generated profile pictures were used by people operating in Russia and Ukraine to push a disinformation campaign targeting Ukrainian social media users, and were taken down.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- individuals in the Donbass region
- individuals in Russia
- media organizations in Crimea
Harmed parties
- Ukrainian social media users
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: GAN-generated profile pictures used in disinformation campaign constitute synthetic media deception.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8