DeepfakeMedium
Many appear duped by AI ‘rabbi’ with 100,000 social-media followers
- Occurred
- Apr 4, 2026
- Published
- Apr 4, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
( Jan. 7, 2026 / JNS ) An account purporting to depict a "Rabbi Menachem Goldberg" has some 100,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok. Though the accounts post videos that have backgrounds with apparently secular or Christian tapestries h ... (report_number: 7094)
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI-generated persona deceives followers, fitting synthetic media deception category with notable but non-critical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8