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Purportedly AI-Generated Campaign Ad Allegedly Depicted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Making Fabricated Statements About Sexual Harassment Scandals
- Occurred
- Oct 17, 2026
- Published
- Oct 21, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity's campaign reportedly released an AI-generated video impersonating Gov. Josh Shapiro and placing first-person statements about harassment scandals, intimidated accusers, and hush money. The harassment allegations concerned a former aide. Shapiro's campaign denounced the ad as dishonest.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Stacy Garrity's gubernatorial campaign
- Stacy Garrity
- Public figures
- Politicians in the United States
- Politicians
- political campaigns
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Public figures
- Politicians in the United States
- Politicians
- Josh Shapiro
- Epistemic integrity
- Elected officials
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI-generated political ads raise concerns about synthetic media deception in elections.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8