DeepfakeMedium
Fake LinkedIn Profiles Created Using GAN Photos
- Occurred
- Feb 28, 2022
- Published
- Mar 28, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
More than a thousand inauthentic LinkedIn profiles using allegedly GAN-generated photos were notified by researchers at Stanford to LinkedIn’s staff, and many of which were removed for violating rules against creating fake profiles and falsifying information.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- LinkedIn users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: GAN-generated photos used to create fake profiles constitute synthetic media deception.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8