DeepfakeLow
Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes
- Occurred
- Jul 1, 2017
- Published
- Jul 19, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
University of Washington researchers made a deepfake of Obama, followed by Jordan Peele
Developers
- University of Washington
- FakeApp
Deployers
- University of Washington
- FakeApp
Harmed parties
- Barack Obama
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Research project creating deepfakes of public figures for demonstration purposes without reported harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8