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Turkish National Reportedly Posted a Purportedly AI-Generated Image Depicting Himself with Eric Trump While Promoting Trump Hotel Dubai
- Occurred
- Aug 14, 2026
- Published
- Aug 14, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Turkish national Melih Göğebakan reportedly posted a purportedly AI-generated image on LinkedIn depicting himself alongside Eric Trump while promoting the Trump Hotel Dubai project. The image appeared amid a broader online persona in which Göğebakan allegedly portrayed himself as closely connected to Trump-affiliated organizations and U.S. political figures. He was separately accused of visa-related fraud, though reporting does not establish that the AI-generated image caused those losses.
Developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Scammers
- Melih Göğebakan
- Information manipulation actors
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Public figures
- Eric Trump
- Epistemic integrity
- American public figures
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI-generated image used to falsely depict association with public figures for promotional purposes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8