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Dimal Basha's Likeness Was Reportedly Used in Purportedly Fake AI-Generated Video After Kosovo Parliament Speaker Election
- Occurred
- Aug 26, 2025
- Published
- Aug 30, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Minutes after Kosovo MPs elected Vetëvendosje's Dimal Basha as Parliament Speaker, a purportedly AI-generated Facebook video used his likeness to claim he was the father of Kosovo's Ashkali community, a Roma-related minority group that has faced long-running discrimination and political marginalization. The video reportedly received more than 80,000 views in under eight hours.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Information manipulation actors
- Deepfake creators
- Information manipulation actors in Kosovo
Harmed parties
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- General public of Kosovo
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- Dimal Basha
- Democratic integrity
- Ashkali people
- Ashkali community in Kosovo
- Minority groups
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video misusing a politician's likeness to spread misinformation about ethnicity.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8