DeepfakeMedium
Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction
- Occurred
- Jun 30, 2025
- Published
- Jul 10, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An elderly couple from Kuala Lumpur reportedly drove three hours to Kuak Hulu, Perak, on June 30, 2025, after viewing a purportedly Google Veo 3-generated video depicting a nonexistent cable car attraction called the Kuak Skyride. Published on TikTok by "TV Rakyat," the video featured a synthetic reporter and purported visitors. The couple learned after arriving that the attraction did not exist.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
Deployers
- TV Rakyat
- Synthetic media creators
- Information manipulation actors in Malaysia
- Information manipulation actors
- Content creators
Harmed parties
- Travelers
- tourists
- TikTok users
- Social media users
- Facebook users
- Epistemic integrity
- Elderly individuals in Malaysia
- Elderly individuals
- Consumers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Synthetic video misled elderly couple into travel, fitting deepfake deception category with limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8