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Purportedly AI-Generated Facebook Video Allegedly Misused Skënder Brataj and Blendi Fevziu to Promote Purported Miracle Cream in Albania
- Occurred
- Jun 30, 2025
- Published
- Jul 2, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purportedly manipulated AI-generated video reportedly circulated on Facebook misusing the likenesses of emergency physician Skënder Brataj and journalist Blendi Fevziu to promote a purported "miracle" cream. Reporting indicated that some citizens believed the content and contacted or visited emergency services seeking treatment.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Skënder Brataj
- Public trust in medical guidance
- People seeking medical advice
- General public of Albania
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- Blendi Fevziu
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video misusing likenesses to deceive public and cause unnecessary emergency service contact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8