DeepfakeMedium
Korean Politician Employed Deepfake as Campaign Representative
- Occurred
- Dec 6, 2021
- Published
- Dec 9, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A South Korean political candidate created a deepfake avatar which political opponents alleged to be fraudulent and a threat to democracy.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Yoon Suk-yeol
- Yoon Suk-yeol's campaign
Harmed parties
- General public of South Korea
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves deepfake avatar used in political campaign causing controversy and allegations of fraud.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8