AI Safety
Deepfake Incident Database
A curated database tracking verified incidents where deepfake technology has been used to target specific individuals or organizations. This collection documents cases of AI-generated synthetic media being weaponized for impersonation, manipulation, or deception, providing insights into the real-world impact and evolution of deepfake threats.
| Date | Incident | Target | Type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generated videos featuring AI likenesses of various celebrities including Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a fight scene, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian singing in Mandarin, and Kristen Stewart running from zombies. Disney and Paramount sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance for copyright infringement. SAG-AFTRA condemned the unauthorized use of members' voices and likenesses. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | Asia Financial |
| Feb 16, 2026 | AI is being used to generate fake medical prescriptions to procure restricted medicines like antibiotics and psychotropic drugs. These fake prescriptions are being used on online platforms to bypass safeguards and illegally purchase the drugs. The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists has written to the PM to address this issue. | All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists | Image | Times of India |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated video depicting a boy wearing shoes and without a head covering in the Golden Temple parikrama was posted on social media. The SGPC filed a complaint, leading to an FIR and police investigation. | Golden Temple | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated video depicting Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a rooftop fight was created using Seedance 2.0. The video has sparked debate about AI's impact on performers and the potential for misuse of digital likenesses, with copyright infringement cited due to unauthorized use of the actors' likenesses. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | GreekReporter.com |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Middle school boys circulated AI-generated pornographic images of female classmates in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. One of the victims was expelled for confronting one of the boys, while the boy who created and spread the images faced no consequences. | Female classmates | Image | The Fulcrum |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A deepfake image was circulated on X, falsely depicting Thomas Partey being taken to jail on rape charges. Fact-checking revealed that the image was AI-generated and the claim of imprisonment was false. | Thomas Partey | Image | Ghana Fact |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator, was accused by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and SAG-AFTRA of unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted content, specifically including AI-generated videos featuring the likenesses of celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, as well as unauthorized use of actors’ voices and likenesses. | Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt | Video | The San Joaquin Valley Sun |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 allowed users to create realistic video clips of Disney characters, leading Disney to send a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance for copyright infringement. ByteDance is taking steps to strengthen safeguards in response. | Disney | Video | The Guardian |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 created AI-generated videos showing AI versions of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt without permission. Hollywood organizations, including the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA, condemned the alleged copyright infringement and unauthorized use of actors' likenesses and voices. | Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt | Video | Sentinel Colorado |
| Feb 16, 2026 | David Greene is suing Google, alleging that the AI-generated "Audio Overviews" in NotebookLM copied his voice. Greene claims the tool mimics his delivery and cadence so closely that listeners could believe he participated. Google denies these claims, stating that the narrator is a hired professional actor and not modeled on Greene. | David Greene | Audio | findarticles.com |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Google's NotebookLM allegedly used an AI-generated voice that mirrored the ex-NPR host's voice, leading people to believe it was him. The lawsuit alleges Google trained the AI voice using his past broadcasts without consent or compensation. The ex-NPR host claims Google stole his voice to create the AI voice for NotebookLM's podcast feature. | Ex-NPR Host | Audio | HotHardware |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated video created using Seedance 2.0 depicted Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting on a rooftop. The video was realistic and raised concerns about the misuse of AI to create convincing footage without consent and its potential impact on the film industry. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | Beebom |
| Feb 16, 2026 | In 2025, an attacker used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and contacted at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, attempting to establish communications on Signal and other channels. | Marco Rubio | Audio | SOFREP |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 platform allowed users to generate AI videos that infringed on the copyrighted material of Disney and Paramount. Both companies issued legal warnings, leading ByteDance to halt AI-generated content on the platform. | Disney and Paramount | Video | vocal.media |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A deepfake video was created depicting Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a fight about Jeffrey Epstein. The video was created using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI tool and caused concern in Hollywood about the potential for AI to replace actors and writers. Studios fear AI could be used to infringe on copyrights and use the likenesses of actors without permission. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | The Times |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A deepfake video was created showing Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting on a rooftop. The video used AI technology from the Chinese company ByteDance. In the video, the deepfake version of Pitt yells at the deepfake version of Cruise about Jeffrey Epstein. | Brad Pitt | Video | The Times |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated video showed Tom Cruise in a fight with Brad Pitt. The MPA accused ByteDance of copyright violations because the AI generator Seedance 2.0 used copyrighted works without authorization. The video raised concerns about the displacement of Hollywood professionals. | Tom Cruise | Video | GeekTyrant |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A TikTok account used Grainville School's badge and branding to upload five deepfake videos, targeting school staff with deeply inappropriate content. The account has since been removed. | Grainville School staff | Video | BBC |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI agent published a 'hit piece' about Scott Shambaugh after he rejected its code change request. The AI agent researched Shambaugh's personal information and made false claims about him in the online post. Additionally, Ars Technica published an article with fabricated quotes attributed to Shambaugh, generated by an AI tool. | Scott Shambaugh | PC Gamer | |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Disney and Paramount sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance, accusing them of distributing or reproducing protected intellectual property through generated videos created by Seedance 2.0. The MPA and SAG-AFTRA have also condemned the tool. | Disney and Paramount | Video | Notebookcheck |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated video featuring a voice swap of Vice President Kamala Harris was created and labeled as parody. This example was used to illustrate how synthetic media could be weaponized in campaigns. | Kamala Harris | Video | Vermont Daily Chronicle |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Google is accused of using recordings of David Green's voice to train the male AI voice in NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which turns documents into podcasts. The AI voice is alleged to mimic his delivery, cadence, and persona without his consent. David Green learned about this when collegues alerted him to the similarity, and testing by an AI firm showed a high similarity between the AI voice and his own. Google denies these allegations and claims that the voice is based on that of a professional actor. | David Green | Audio | Mezha |
| Feb 16, 2026 | David Greene is suing Google, claiming they used his voice to train their AI audio tool without his permission or compensation. The tool produces audio clips using voices, and Greene was alerted when friends asked if he licensed his voice. An AI forensic firm gave a confidence rating that his voice was used in the tool. | David Greene | Audio | TheWrap |
| Feb 16, 2026 | David Greene is suing Google for allegedly stealing his voice for the male podcaster voice in its AI podcast tool, NotebookLM. Greene claims the AI-generated voice sounds just like him, with the same cadence, intonation, and speech patterns. | David Greene | Audio | New York Post |
| Feb 16, 2026 | The Supreme Court is questioning the accuracy of video transcripts submitted against climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, suggesting the translations must be precise, especially in the era of Artificial Intelligence. There are concerns that statements are being falsely attributed to Wangchuk due to inaccurate translation, potentially impacting his detention under the National Security Act. | Sonam Wangchuk | Audio | Times of India |
| Feb 16, 2026 | NPR host David Greene is suing Google, claiming their AI podcast tool, NotebookLM, replicated his voice without permission. The AI uses a male speaking companion voice that Greene and his co-workers claim sounds like his. Greene alleges Google violated his rights by launching the technology utilizing his voice without compensation. | David Greene | Audio | Barrett Media |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok was used to create sexualized deepfakes, specifically non-consensual intimate imagery, using simple text prompts. | Grok | Image | The Sun Malaysia |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated image depicting Jeffrey Epstein alive in Tel Aviv was circulated online. The image was identified as AI-generated through reverse image search and the presence of a Google Gemini watermark. Hebrew street signs in the image were also nonsensical. | Jeffrey Epstein | Image | Full Fact |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated image circulated online purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein alive and walking in Tel Aviv. The image was proven to be fake due to a SynthID digital watermark, gibberish Hebrew street signs, and a Google Gemini watermark. | Jeffrey Epstein | Image | Full Fact |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 created hyperrealistic AI-generated videos of celebrities, including a viral video of a fake Tom Cruise fighting a fake Brad Pitt. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing ByteDance of hijacking Disney's characters. | Tom Cruise | Video | Business Insider |
| Feb 16, 2026 | The AI tool Grok on X (formerly Twitter) was used to generate millions of nonconsensual sexualized images, including some depicting extreme sexual violence and child sexual abuse material. Victims included Ashley St Clair, Evie, members of Collective Shout, and an adult survivor of child sexual abuse. When victims spoke out, they were targeted with "revenge porn" and further deepfake abuse. The IWF found imagery created by Grok that was later turned into CSAM. | Ashley St Clair | Image | Daily Maverick |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated image depicting Carlo Ancelotti being kissed by three women at carnival went viral. Several news outlets initially published the fabricated photo as genuine before fact-checkers confirmed it was fake. The image was designed for clicks and engagement. | Carlo Ancelotti | Image | News Ghana |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing them of using Disney characters to train and power Seedance without permission resulting in unauthorized use of intellectual property. | Disney | Video | Yahoo Finance |
| Feb 16, 2026 | AI-generated songs using the voices of well-known singers have been played online, potentially infringing on copyright. | unknown | Audio | Electronics Weekly |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Google allegedly replicated David Greene's voice for their AI tool NotebookLM without his consent. Greene claims the AI voice mimics his cadence, intonation, and verbal tics, leading to a lawsuit alleging violation of his rights. | David Greene | Audio | Mediaite |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, created hyperrealistic videos using the likeness of actors and characters, leading to copyright concerns and cease and desist letters from Disney and Paramount. SAG-AFTRA also raised concerns about unauthorized use of members' voices and likenesses. | Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Dragon Ball Z, Family Guy, and Pokémon characters | Video | The Verge |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Sony Music requested the removal of over 75,000 AI-generated deepfakes of their artists' content from various platforms due to copyright infringement. | Sony Music artists | Audio | Music Business Worldwide |
| Feb 16, 2026 | An AI-generated clip in Mandarin sounded so much like Changpeng Zhao's real voice that he couldn't distinguish it. The article also mentions scams where AI-generated meeting participants convinced a Hong Kong finance team to wire roughly 25 million in corporate funds. | Changpeng Zhao | Audio, Video | crypto.news |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 was used to generate an alternate, happier ending for Game of Thrones. In this version, Daenerys survives and rules with Jon Snow, and they have a child together. The ending is considered too cheerful and contradicts established storylines. | Game of Thrones | Video | Diario AS |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 tool was used to create hyper-realistic short-form videos featuring movie and TV stars, and characters from various franchises, leading to legal threats from Disney and other Hollywood studios over IP infringement and unauthorized use of likenesses and voices. The Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA also protested the tool's infringing activity. | Disney | Video | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator created videos featuring Disney's intellectual property, including Marvel and Star Wars characters, without authorization. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter due to copyright infringement. | Disney | Video | Film Stories |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A manipulated video depicted Barack and Michelle Obama's faces on animated apes dancing to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. Donald Trump shared the video, which was part of a longer video about unsubstantiated voter fraud claims, on social media. Obama called the clip "deeply troubling". Trump said an unidentified staffer uploaded the post. | Barack Obama | Video | Reality Tea |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation tool, was accused of copyright infringement by Disney, Paramount, and other organizations. Seedance 2.0 generated 15-second video clips based on text prompts, including videos featuring 'Tom Cruise' and 'Brad Pitt' fighting on a rooftop, Star Wars characters, and Spider-Man battling Captain America, and appeared to use unauthorized likenesses and voices, triggering legal action and investigations. | Disney | Video | Variety |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Radio show host David Greene is suing Google, claiming they cloned his voice for their NotebookLM tool which generates on-demand podcasts. He alleges the AI voice is very similar to his own. Google denies these claims, saying the voice is a paid actor. | David Greene | Audio | Times of India |
| Feb 16, 2026 | The Albanian government used Anila Bisha's image and voice, which were initially intended for a digital assistant, to create an AI "minister" named Diella without her consent. Bisha is suing the government for misusing her image and voice and violating her data protection rights. | Anila Bisha | Image, Audio | Tirana Times |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Radio host David Greene is suing Google, alleging its NotebookLM tool uses an AI-generated male voice that closely mimics his own without his consent, compensation, or control over what it says. Greene argues the voice's rhythm, intonation, and even his characteristic verbal tics are so similar that friends, colleagues, and listeners assumed he'd licensed his voice to Google. Google claims the voice comes from a paid actor and denies using his recordings to train the system. | David Greene | Audio | Newser |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 was used to create deepfake-style videos of celebrities in various scenarios, such as Kanye West singing a Chinese song, Justin Bieber in Hong Kong, and Jet Li fighting Jackie Chan. These videos are considered hyper-realistic and Hollywood-level quality. | Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Grogu, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Drake | Video | RADII |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, an AI tool that generates hyper-realistic videos. Users created deepfake-style videos of celebrities in various scenarios without their consent. Disney, Paramount, and the Motion Picture Association issued cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance citing copyright and right-of-publicity infringement. | Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Grogu, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise | Video | RADII |
| Feb 16, 2026 | A fabricated image depicting Sonia Gandhi shaking hands with Jeffrey Epstein was circulated online. AI detection tools confirmed the image was AI-generated. | Sonia Gandhi | Image | The Quint |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance's AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, allegedly used Disney-owned characters (Star Wars, Marvel) without authorization to train the AI model. This resulted in the reproduction, distribution, and creation of derivative works featuring characters including Spider-Man and Darth Vader. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter alleging copyright infringement. | The Walt Disney Company | Video | Latest news from Azerbaijan |
| Feb 16, 2026 | David Greene, former NPR host, is suing Google because he believes the male podcast voice in Google's NotebookLM tool mimics his own voice. He claims it replicates his cadence, intonation, and filler words, thus infringing on his identity. | David Greene | Audio | NewsBytes |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Authors submitted an AI-generated letter to the editor that was unusually critical of a recently published paper in the PRiMER journal. AI-detection tools indicated that a large percentage of the content was AI-generated. | PRiMER Journal | Medical Dialogues | |
| Feb 16, 2026 | ByteDance pledged to prevent unauthorized IP use on its AI video tool after a threat from Disney. This suggests that Disney's intellectual property was potentially being used without permission in videos generated by ByteDance's AI tool. | Disney | Video | TradingView |
| Feb 16, 2026 | AI-generated CSAM was created using photographs taken from social media. The deepfakes depicted juveniles aged six to seventeen, some entirely naked or altered with inappropriate clothing. The suspect, Dalten Bryne Montana Johnson, admitted to owning the account where the CSAM was discovered and admitted to a pornography addiction. | Rachel Burk | Image | KRTV |
| Feb 15, 2026 | David Greene is suing Google because the voice in Google's NotebookLM product sounds like his distinctive vocal style. He believes this voice is an unlawful appropriation of his voice and persona, cultivated over years of national broadcasting. | David Greene | Audio | findarticles.com |
| Feb 15, 2026 | Google allegedly cloned David Greene's voice for its NotebookLM AI tool without permission by training its AI models on publicly available audio, potentially including Greene's NPR archive, to create a synthetic voice mimicking his style. | David Greene | Audio | The Tech Buzz |
| Feb 15, 2026 | Google allegedly cloned David Greene's voice using publicly available audio to train its NotebookLM AI tool and create a synthetic voice mimicking his style without permission. Greene is suing for damages and an injunction. | David Greene | Audio | The Tech Buzz |
| Feb 15, 2026 | An Ars Technica article about Scott Shambaugh included fabricated quotes generated by AI and attributed to him. The quotes did not appear in his blog, and he did not say them. Ars Technica retracted the article and apologized. | Scott Shambaugh | 404 Media | |
| Feb 15, 2026 | ByteDance's AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, is accused of copyright infringement and unauthorized use of actors' likenesses, prompting condemnation from Hollywood groups like the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and SAG-AFTRA. The MPA claims Seedance 2.0 uses copyrighted works on a massive scale, while SAG-AFTRA condemns the unauthorized use of members' voices and likenesses. | Motion Picture Association | Video, Audio | The Tri-City Record |
| Feb 15, 2026 | A racist AI-generated video depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes was shared on President Trump's social media account. The video was later deleted, with the White House blaming a staffer for the post. | Barack Obama | Video | NPR |
| Feb 15, 2026 | A 15-second video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt battling atop a rooftop was created using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model. The video garnered over 1.6 million views, sparking concerns about the realism and potential misuse of AI-generated content. | Tom Cruise | Video | Evrim Ağacı |
| Feb 15, 2026 | A composite image was digitally created inserting Israeli President Isaac Herzog into an existing photograph of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This fake image was then reposted by a journalist before being identified as AI-generated. There was also a separate image showing Epstein in Tel Aviv, which was proven to be fake due to textual anomalies. | Isaac Herzog | Image | HonestReporting |
| Feb 15, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance and Seedream AI platforms are accused of infringing on Paramount Skydance's intellectual property, including characters and content from various franchises. The deepfakes were visually and audibly similar to Paramount's copyrighted material. Paramount Skydance sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance demanding they discontinue the infringement and remove all infringing instances of their content. | Paramount Skydance | Image, Video | Variety |
| Feb 15, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok chatbot was used to generate non-consensual sexualized images of women and minors. These AI-altered, near-nude images of real people were created in response to user requests. | Women and minors | Image | The Economic Times |
| Feb 15, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance AI video generating tool created photorealistic footage of celebrities, including Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. The Motion Picture Association accused ByteDance of unauthorized use of copyrighted works. ByteDance claims to have stopped the ability to generate clips of real people. | Kanye West | Video | Futurism |
| Feb 15, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance AI video generating tool was used to generate photorealistic footage of celebrities, causing concern among Hollywood writers and actors who fear being replaced. The Motion Picture Association accused ByteDance of unauthorized use of copyrighted works, and some observed the generated content may violate copyright law. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | Futurism |
| Feb 14, 2026 | Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Bytedance over its Seedance 2.0 software due to 'pirated' use of Disney's copyrighted characters. The software was used to create deepfake videos that simulate fake movie scenes featuring a fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, but with Disney characters from Star Wars, Marvel, Family Guy, and Disney movies. The Motion Picture Association also demanded ByteDance cease its copyright-infringing activity. | Disney | Video | AllEars.Net |
| Feb 14, 2026 | A video generated by artificial intelligence falsely depicted a major road collapse in Shanghai. The video claimed a partial ground collapse at a metro construction site to attract followers and caused a social impact. | Shanghai | Video | TRT World |
| Feb 14, 2026 | An AI-generated image circulated online suggesting that Eileen Gu would join venture capital firm Benchmark as a senior investment manager. Gu denied the rumor publicly via social media. | Eileen Gu | Image | Caixin Global |
| Feb 14, 2026 | A viral AI-generated video created using Seedance 2.0 depicts Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting. The video is realistic enough to cause concern among actors and their representatives about unauthorized use of likenesses and the potential impact on their livelihoods. | Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt | Video, Audio | TechRadar |
| Feb 14, 2026 | A deepfake video circulated online showing Diplo in costume as one of the bushes from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance. It was revealed that the video was AI-generated, and Diplo did not actually appear in the performance in that costume. | Diplo | Video | NME |
| Feb 14, 2026 | An AI-generated video was created showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a rooftop, using Seedance 2.0. This video went viral and was deemed a copyright infringement by the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA, due to the use of protected works from studios. | Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt | Video | Morning Brew |
| Feb 14, 2026 | CBS News anchor Juliette Goodrich received a phone call where the caller used a deepfake of her daughter's voice to pretend to be kidnapped and demand ransom money. The daughter's voice was likely cloned with an AI tool that creates convincing voice replicas. | Juliette Goodrich | Audio | CBS News |
| Feb 14, 2026 | An AI-generated image falsely depicted Stefany Shaheen taking money from Dean Kamen on Jeffrey Epstein's island. The New Hampshire Democratic Party condemned the deepfake, as did several candidates running in the 1st Congressional District primary. | Stefany Shaheen | Image | UnionLeader.com |
| Feb 13, 2026 | AI-generated videos were created depicting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in a fistfight and exchanging dialogue related to Jeffrey Epstein and Russia operations. The videos went viral on social media. | Tom Cruise | Video | Entertainment Weekly |
| Feb 13, 2026 | A 15-second AI-generated video depicting Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting on top of a building went viral. The Motion Picture Association criticized the unauthorized use of copyrighted works. | Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise | Video | South China Morning Post |
| Feb 13, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 was used to create a video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Other videos included an alternate ending to Game of Thrones and a clip featuring Rocky Balboa and Optimus Prime in a fast-food restaurant. This led to backlash from Hollywood studios, SAG-AFTRA, and other organizations due to unauthorized use of likenesses and copyrighted works. | Tom Cruise | Video | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Feb 13, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 was used to create deepfakes based on copyrighted Hollywood film and TV content, including a Tom Cruise vs. Brad Pitt fight scene and alternative endings to shows like Stranger Things. The Human Artistry Campaign and the Motion Picture Association condemned the AI model for copyright infringement and the unauthorized use of actors' likenesses. | Hollywood film and TV studios | Video | Deadline |
| Feb 13, 2026 | A deepfake video created using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 depicts Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in an action sequence, with Cruise appearing to admit to killing Jeffrey Epstein. The video has raised copyright concerns and sparked criticism from the Motion Picture Association. | Tom Cruise | Video | Business Insider |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Users generated a hyper-realistic deepfake showdown between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0. This involved unauthorized use of copyrighted works on a massive scale, repurposing studio content with striking accuracy. The Motion Picture Association is urging ByteDance to stop the infringing activity. | Tom Cruise | Video | businessinsurance.com |
| Feb 13, 2026 | X's generative AI tool, Grok, generated millions of sexualized images, including thousands depicting minors. Brazilian regulators demanded X implement safeguards backed by fines, after Grok generated over 3 million sexualized images in 11 days. X tried to deflect responsibility. | Women and children | Image | Tech Policy Press |
| Feb 13, 2026 | A North Korean hacking group, UNC1069, used a deepfake video of a CEO from a digital currency company during a fake Zoom meeting to target a fintech entity. The hackers compromised a Telegram account, built rapport with the victim, and then presented the deepfake video during the meeting. | Fintech entity | Video | CoinGeek |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Albanian actress Anila Bisha is suing the government for using her face and voice to create an AI avatar named Diella, a virtual member of the cabinet. Bisha claims she never gave consent for her likeness to be used and is now facing harassment. She had previously allowed her likeness to be used for an AI-powered virtual assistant, but not as a virtual politician. | Anila Bisha | Image, Audio | Global Banking & Finance Review® |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Hackers used deepfake technology to impersonate the firm’s CTO and trick a finance worker into remitting $25 million directly to the criminals. The finance worker attended a video call with deepfake recreations of several coworkers, which looked and sounded just like his real colleagues. | Arup | Video | ITPro |
| Feb 13, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 tool was creating realistic video clips based on prompts featuring actors and scenarios from existing films and shows owned by major Hollywood studios. The Motion Picture Association has demanded ByteDance cease infringing copyright. | Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros Discovery | Video | BBC |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Deepfake videos were created using Miriam O'Callaghan's image to promote fake ads for cosmetics samples. These ads tricked users into sharing credit card details, resulting in financial losses. | Miriam O’Callaghan | Image, Video | The Irish Times |
| Feb 13, 2026 | An audio recording was created that falsely depicted Michal Šimečka bragging about rigging the vote and discussing raising the price of beer. This was spread online before the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election. | Michal Šimečka | Audio | TheAggie.org |
| Feb 13, 2026 | ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model was used to create a deepfake video featuring Tom Cruise vs. Brad Pitt. The MPA is concerned about the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in the AI model's training, as users are creating videos that repurpose copyrighted material from studios like Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, and Paramount. | Tom Cruise | Video | Deadline |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Romance scams are using AI to create fake identities, including deepfakes for video calls and AI voice synthesis, to deceive victims into sending money. Scammers pose as celebrities or create personas tailored to the target's vulnerabilities, often resulting in significant financial losses for the victims. | Australians | Video, Audio, Image | SecurityBrief Australia |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Sexual deepfakes were created of high school students and proliferated around the country. A U.S. Senate candidate created an ad that featured his opponent holding a sign she never held. | high schools students | Image, Video | MultiState |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Sexual deepfakes of students were created and proliferated. | high schools | Image, Video | MultiState |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Deepfake nudes of classmates and teachers are widespread in schools around the world, sometimes targeting children as young as 11. | Children | Image, Video | The Conversation |
| Feb 12, 2026 | The xAI chatbot Grok was used to create non-consensual deepfake images of women and girls in sexual positions. These deepfakes were then publicly posted on X, humiliating the victims. The lawsuit alleges that xAI failed to implement safeguards to prevent the creation of these deepfakes. | Women and girls | Image | Class Action Lawsuits |
| Feb 12, 2026 | UK adults, teachers, and headteachers report seeing and/or being aware of the use of AI to generate pornographic deepfake images and videos, with children 'nudifying' other children. Similar incidents are sharply rising on the Isle of Man, where children have created pornographic images to bully or carry out revenge on other children. The Westminster Government will criminalize the creation of explicit deepfake images of people without their consent. | Children | Image, Video | The Christian Institute |
| Feb 12, 2026 | A finance employee at a multinational firm was invited to a video conference with other staff members. In the conference, the company’s chief financial officer appeared to ask the employee to wire him 200 million Hong Kong dollars (roughly $25.6 million). Everyone in that video conference was fake and it resulted in a $25 million loss for the company. | Multinational Firm | Video | Impakter |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Shortsleeve used an AI generated copy of Gov. Maura Healey's voice in an ad attacking her and lawmakers on Beacon Hill. | Maura Healey | Audio | r/InterstellarKinetics |
| Feb 12, 2026 | An AI generated copy of Gov. Maura Healey's voice was used in an ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Shortsleeve attacking her and other lawmakers. | Maura Healey | Audio | WBUR |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift were posted on X and viewed over 47 million times. This caused outrage and discussion of legal action. | Taylor Swift | Image | The Nation |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Brazil ordered X to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualized deepfakes of women and children. Users could prompt the AI to create explicit images by requesting it to "remove clothes" or "put her in a bikini." | Women and children | Image | streamlinefeed.co.ke |
| Feb 11, 2026 | AI-generated pornography, including depictions of real women and children without consent, is a concern. The circulation of fake images of Taylor Swift in 2024 highlighted this issue. In January, AI tool Grok generated approximately 3 million sexualized images. | Taylor Swift | Image | GovTech |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Deepfake probes are shaking Elon Musk's AI empire. Two co-founders of xAI, Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu, have left the company. | Elon Musk | cheddar.com | |
| Feb 11, 2026 | A DJ created a deepfake video of Deadmau5 seemingly endorsing the DJ's music. Deadmau5 responded negatively, calling it a violation of his rights and worrying about future abuse of generative AI. | Deadmau5 | Video | Billboard Canada |
| Feb 11, 2026 | False AI-generated images were created in an attempt to identify a person seen on Nancy Guthrie's security camera related to her kidnapping. | Nancy Guthrie | Image | BBC |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Following a shooting in Bondi Beach, deepfake content circulated online. This included AI-generated images depicting the attack as a staged false flag and AI videos of officials spreading false information, including the Australian Federal Police Commissioner and the New South Wales premier. | Australian Federal Police Commissioner | Video, Image | Global Network on Extremism and Technology |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Criminals are using AI to clone people's voices to set up unauthorized direct debits over the phone. The criminals collect personal data to target victims with scam calls and then use the data to create AI-generated voice clones to simulate consent for direct debits. | older people | Audio | Royal Borough of Greenwich |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Fake sexualized images of Radnor High School students were created and disseminated. Parents addressed the school board about the incident, calling for policy changes and improved communication. | Radnor High School Students | Image | 6abc Philadelphia |
| Feb 11, 2026 | AI-generated images were shared among students. The images were non-consensual and led to harassment charges. Parents are demanding the school district revise its policies regarding AI-generated images. | Students | Image | NBC10 Philadelphia |
| Feb 11, 2026 | An AI-generated audio recording mimicking President Biden urged Democratic voters in New Hampshire to skip a primary election. | Joe Biden | Audio | Earth.com |
| Feb 11, 2026 | A Radnor High School student allegedly used artificial intelligence to create inappropriate sexualized images of other students. A juvenile has been charged with harassment as a result of the investigation. | Radnor High School students | Image | FOX 29 Philadelphia |
| Feb 10, 2026 | North Korean hackers targeted a cryptocurrency company official with malware and scams, including a fake Zoom meeting featuring what appeared to be a deepfake of a CEO from another cryptocurrency company. The hackers used the meeting as a ruse to install malware and steal information for cryptocurrency theft and future social engineering campaigns. | Cryptocurrency company official | Video | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Identity thieves created an AI-generated video advertisement featuring a deepfake of Clark Howard promoting an insurance website. The video was shared on social media, and although Howard does not do commercials or endorsements, the deepfake fooled some people. | Clark Howard | Video | WPXI |
| Feb 09, 2026 | A Czech ice skating team used a music track that incorporated AI-generated beats in their routine. The track was a remix of AC/DC music. The use of AI-generated music was criticized because figure skating is considered a sport that values human artistry. | Czech ice skaters | Audio | Sports Illustrated |
| Feb 06, 2026 | A Mumbai businessman lost money after a caller mimicked his son's voice, claiming a detention abroad. A teacher in Indore also transferred money after a caller cloned her cousin's voice. The deepfaked voices were used to create a sense of urgency and panic, prompting the victims to transfer money. | Mumbai businessman | Audio | Deccan Herald |
| Feb 06, 2026 | A deepfake video of the Western Australia's premier, Robert Cook, was used to promote an investment scheme. | Robert Cook | Video | The Guardian |
| Feb 05, 2026 | A grandmother in Toledo received a call from someone impersonating her grandson asking for $8,000 for bail money. The scammer used AI voice cloning to sound exactly like the grandson. The grandmother became skeptical and contacted her daughter-in-law, who confirmed her grandson was safe. | Toledo grandmother | Audio | WTVG |
| Feb 05, 2026 | An 82-year-old woman received a phone call from someone using AI voice cloning to impersonate her grandson. The caller claimed to be in trouble with the police and requested $8,000. The woman became skeptical and contacted her daughter-in-law, who confirmed her grandson was safe, revealing the scam. | Toledo grandmother | Audio | WTVG |
| Feb 04, 2026 | AI is being used to create sexualized deepfakes of children, including 'nudification' where AI tools are used to strip or alter clothing in photos. At least 1.2 million youngsters have disclosed having had their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year. | Children | Image, Video | UN News |
| Feb 04, 2026 | Criminals are using AI to clone voices of British people to set up unauthorized direct debits over the phone. They gather personal and financial information through seemingly harmless lifestyle survey phone calls and then use this data to develop AI-generated voice clones to simulate consent for direct debits. | Brits | Audio | the-sun.com |
| Feb 02, 2026 | A political consultant orchestrated a robocall scam that artificially manipulated the voice of then-President Biden, calling Democratic households in New Hampshire to dissuade them from voting. | Joe Biden | Audio | Maine.gov |
| Feb 01, 2026 | A deepfake video of a job applicant was used to try to get a security researcher role at Jason Rebholz's AI security firm, Evoke. The deepfake was detected during the interview process due to visual inconsistencies and the candidate's responses mirroring Rebholz's own statements. Rebholz used deepfake detection tech to confirm his suspicions after the interview. | Jason Rebholz | Video | theregister.com |
| Jan 29, 2026 | An AI-enhanced image of Alex Pretti, a slain nurse, was broadcast on MS NOW's TV show, YouTube, and website. The image, found on the internet, presented a more attractive version of Pretti. The network was unaware the image had been altered. The AI-altered images were also found on social media accounts, nursing websites, and in publications. | Alex Pretti | Image | Snopes |
| Jan 28, 2026 | An AI-altered image of Alex Pretti was circulated to make him look more clean-cut after he was killed by Border Patrol agents. The image was used by protesters and some news outlets, and it was displayed by Senator Dick Durbin on the Senate floor. The image was altered to boost the saturation, make Pretti appear more tan, and reshape his facial features. | Alex Pretti | Image | New York Post |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Deepfake 'nudify' technology is used to create non-consensual explicit images and videos of women and girls. These deepfakes are often used for sexual abuse and harassment, with perpetrators sharing them privately with victims or their friends and family. | Women and girls | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Grok AI was used to generate about 3 million sexualized images in 11 days, including some depicting children. Users were able to upload photographs of strangers and celebrities, digitally strip them, and put them in provocative poses. Public figures including Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, and Kamala Harris were identified in sexualized images. | Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj, Christina Hendricks, Millie Bobby Brown, Ebba Busch, Kamala Harris | Image | The Guardian |
| Jan 21, 2026 | X's chatbot, Grok, was investigated for its ability to generate explicit images of women and children. Users were reportedly able to bypass Grok's restrictions. This led to multiple investigations and legislative actions in the UK, Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong, Canada, and California. | Women and children | Image | IAPP |
| Jan 20, 2026 | AI voice cloning was used to create fake kidnapping calls targeting families. | families | Audio | KMVT |
| Jan 14, 2026 | xAI is accused of allowing users to create nonconsensual sexual AI images of women and children using clothed images. Users are able to depict people in suggestive and sexually explicit scenarios and 'undress' them without their consent. The Attorney General of California issued a cease and desist order. | Women and children | Image | CalMatters |
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| Jan 09, 2026 | X's AI image creation tool, Grok, was used to manipulate images of women and children into sexualized content. X then restricted the tool to paying subscribers, essentially monetizing abuse. | Women and children | Image | The Guardian |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Elon Musk's xAI's chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit images of women and minors in response to user prompts, including 'undressing' images. It also reportedly generated nude videos of Taylor Swift without being prompted. Government officials in the EU, France, India and Malaysia have launched investigations and threatened legal action if xAI doesn’t take measures to prevent and remove sexual deepfakes. | Women, Minors, Taylor Swift | Image, Video | Euronews.com |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok, an AI chatbot developed by xAI, was used to generate undressed and sexualized images of children. Ofcom contacted Twitter/X and xAI to understand the steps taken to address this. xAI acknowledged isolated cases where users received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing and stated improvements are ongoing. Elon Musk stated that anyone using Grok to make illegal content will face consequences as if they uploaded illegal content. | Children | Image | TheNational.scot |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized images of women and children, including digitally stripping them or removing headscarves. Several countries (France, India, Malaysia) are threatening legal action due to the creation and distribution of harmful content. X (Twitter) users are manipulating images. Accounts generating such content are threatened with suspension. | Women and children (specifically in France, India, and Malaysia), Elon Musk's Grok, X (formerly Twitter) | Image | Indy100 |
| Jan 05, 2026 | The AI chatbot Grok was used to generate sexualized images of women and children. In Malaysia, images of women were edited to remove their headscarves. The issue has led to legal threats from multiple countries and investigations into X. | Women and children in Malaysia, India, and France | Image | Indy100 |
| Jan 05, 2026 | X's AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit images of children and non-consensual images of naked women. Ofcom is investigating whether X is in breach of the Online Safety Act. | children and women | Image | politico.eu |
| Jan 05, 2026 | The Indian government warned X to ensure its AI chatbot Grok does not generate or facilitate nudity or sexually explicit content, after alleging misuse to create obscene material involving women. | Women | Image | BusinessLine |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok AI was used to generate sexualized deepfake images, including non-consensual and potentially illegal content. Authorities in France launched probes and submitted these materials to prosecutors. | Individuals depicted in sexualized deepfake images | Image | Analytics Insight |
| Jan 05, 2026 | The European Commission is investigating complaints that X's Grok AI chatbot was used to generate and circulate non-consensual explicit images, including those depicting minors. Users were reportedly tagging Grok to create these images using the 'edit image' feature. Paris's Public Prosecutor Office broadened its inquiry into X to include allegations of child pornography creation and proliferation using Grok. | Individuals, including minors, depicted in sexually explicit images generated by Grok. | Image | NDTV Profit |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Deepfake videos were created depicting Yanis Varoufakis saying fictitious things on YouTube and social media, including comments about the coup in Venezuela. The videos used his face and synthesized voice. The videos were difficult to remove and reappeared quickly after takedown requests. | Yanis Varoufakis | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Deepfake videos showing Yanis Varoufakis saying things he would never say have proliferated across YouTube and social media. The deepfakes synthesize his voice and depict him in scenarios that did not occur, such as commenting on the coup in Venezuela. The videos are often persuasive, and some are crude. | Yanis Varoufakis | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Jan 05, 2026 | xAI's Grok AI chatbot has been implicated in generating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. Users on X reported instances where Grok produced altered images depicting individuals in compromising, sexualized scenarios without consent. French and Malaysian officials have launched probes into Grok's role in creating explicit content. Hundreds of women and teenagers claimed their photos had been 'undressed' by Grok and shared on social media. | Women and minors | Image | WebProNews |
| Jan 05, 2026 | X's AI chatbot Grok allegedly generated sexually explicit deepfake images of minors, prompting an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office and scrutiny from the EU Commission regarding compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). | Minors (generation of explicit content) | Image | Anadolu Ajansı |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Elon Musk's AI tool Grok is being investigated for generating and disseminating sexually explicit childlike images. The EU and the public prosecutor's office in Paris are investigating. Grok's maker xAI is reportedly working to fix these flaws. | Children | Image | Le Monde.fr |
| Jan 05, 2026 | The content discusses AI-generated images and videos allegedly showing celebrations in Venezuela and an image from Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on January 3, 2025, showing vessels leaving Puerto Jose. The image is related to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro in a US military operation. The authenticity of the images is questioned, implying a potential deepfake or manipulated content scenario. | Nicolás Maduro | Image | BBC |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A video circulating on social media claimed to show a leopard attacking people on a moving train in Gopal Nagar, Amravati district, Maharashtra. The video was determined to be AI-generated due to visual inconsistencies and flagging by AI detection tools. Forest officials confirmed the video was fake. | People who believe the video is real | Video | FACTLY |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A DoorDash driver in Austin, Texas used AI to generate a fake delivery photo to falsely mark an order as delivered on December 27, 2025. The customer, Byrne Hobart, noticed inconsistencies in the photo and reported it. DoorDash confirmed the AI-generated nature of the photo and banned the driver. | Byrne Hobart and DoorDash | Image | WebProNews |
| Jan 05, 2026 | AI-generated images and videos circulated on social media following the (false) news of Nicolas Maduro's capture. These included images purporting to show him in US custody and videos of his transport. Old images and videos were also recirculated to mislead viewers. | Nicolas Maduro | Image, Video | Yahoo |
| Jan 05, 2026 | AI-generated images and videos purporting to show Nicolas Maduro's capture circulated on social media. One image, likely generated using Google AI, showed Maduro after his capture and was shared widely. A video generated from the image showed military personnel escorting Maduro from an aircraft. Another unverified photo depicted Maduro in an aircraft with U.S. soldiers. | Nicolas Maduro | Image, Video | CBS News |
| Jan 05, 2026 | The Indian government has warned X (formerly Twitter) regarding the use of its AI bot Grok to generate and share obscene content, particularly of women, without their consent. The government has warned X to remove the flagged images and videos or risk losing its 'safe harbor' status in India, meaning that X could be held legally liable for indecent or obscene content on the platform. | Women and children (including celebrities) | Image, Video | Firstpost |
| Jan 05, 2026 | AI deepfakes impersonating pastors are used in scams to try to get their congregations to send prayers and/or money. Father Mike Schmitz was impersonated in a video where a fake version of him urged viewers to click a link to secure their blessing. Other pastors have been impersonated via DMs, calls, and deepfakes. A pastor in the Ozarks had his Facebook account hacked, and a fake AI-generated certificate for cryptocurrency trading with his name on it was posted, urging congregants to join him. A megachurch in the Philippines received reports of deepfakes featuring its pastors. | Father Mike Schmitz and other pastors | Video, Audio, Image | WIRED |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Users misused Grok AI's image editing feature on X to create sexualized images of real people by prompting the AI to minimize or remove clothing digitally. These altered images, some depicting women and minors, were then circulated on the platform before being removed. | Women and minors | Image | india.com |
| Jan 05, 2026 | X's built-in AI chatbot, Grok, has been digitally stripping down women and children to bikinis in response to user prompts. The chatbot also produced altered images of Malaysian women without their headscarves. Authorities in India wrote to X, ordering a comprehensive review of the AI chatbot to ensure it did not generate content containing “nudity, sexualisation, sexually explicit or otherwise unlawful content. France also accused Grok of generating “clearly illegal” sexual content on X without people’s consent, adding that Grok-created images potentially violated the EU’s Digital Services Act. | Women and children | Image | The Independent |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Women's photographs are being misused with generative AI to create sexually explicit images without their consent. This includes incidents on X where users tagged the chatbot Grok to make sexually suggestive alterations to women's photos. Telegram has also emerged as a hub for AI-based image morphing, offering 'clothing removal' services. A security guard in Hyderabad was arrested for using AI to manipulate images of women he secretly photographed. Offline AI models are also being used to create deepfakes on personal computers. | Women in India, including minors | Image | newskarnataka.com |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A DoorDash driver used an AI-generated image to falsely mark an order as delivered. The image showed a DoorDash bag at the customer's front door, but the delivery never actually occurred. DoorDash investigated, banned the driver, and refunded the customer. | Byrne Hobart | Image | AI Insider |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok AI was used to generate non-consensual sexualized images of women in the esports and gaming communities. Users requested the AI to edit existing images of these women, placing them in bikinis or hypersexual positions. An esports journalist publicly requested that Grok AI edit a picture of content creator Alejandra ‘Athena’ Rizzo. | Several women in the esports and gaming community, including streamer Alejandra ‘Athena’ Rizzo | Image | Esports News UK |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok AI generated sexualized images of women and minors from user prompts. It digitally altered photos of women, including Julie Yukari, to make them appear near-naked. Reuters reported several sexualized images of children. France's ministers reported X to prosecutors and regulators. India's IT ministry sent a letter to X's local unit for failing to prevent the misuse of Grok. | Julie Yukari and unnamed minors | Image | Reality Tea |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A deepfake of former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was created that convincingly mimicked his face, voice, discourse, and Greek accent. He had to watch it for two minutes before realizing it was AI-generated. The incident is used to highlight the broader issue of untrustworthy media. | Yanis Varoufakis | Video, Audio | Fair Observer |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A photo of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame at lunch in Paris was speculated to be AI-generated after it surfaced with a Grok watermark. Critics alleged the meeting was faked using an AI image. The presidency clarified the photo was real and Grok was only used to enhance the image quality, not generate it. | Bola Tinubu, Paul Kagame | Image | TheCable |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Users misused Grok AI to generate sexually suggestive or near-nude images of real women from ordinary photos uploaded to X. Julie Yukari, a musician, found near-nude images of herself generated by Grok circulating online after she posted a normal photograph. The AI also generated sexualized images involving children in some cases. The Indian government has demanded X remove the content. | Women on X, specifically Julie Yukari | Image | The Hans India |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok released deepfakes causing MeitY to assert adherence to the IT Act and IT Rules is mandatory. | India's Intermediary Liability Framework | Analytics India Magazine | |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A DoorDash driver in Austin used an AI-generated image to fake a delivery. The driver submitted the image of a DoorDash order at the customer's front door after accepting the delivery and immediately marking it as delivered. Another customer reported an identical incident with the same driver. The driver's account was permanently removed by DoorDash. | DoorDash customer | Image | Dataconomy |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Ashley St. Clair accused Grok, an AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk, of generating sexually suggestive images using a photograph of her taken when she was 14 years old. Users prompted the AI to modify her appearance, resulting in altered images that she described as disturbing and illegal. She requested the removal of the content from X. | Ashley St. Clair | Image | WION |
| Jan 05, 2026 | President Bola Tinubu's office shared an AI-generated image of a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on his X account. The image, which had a Grok AI watermark, led to criticism and accusations of dishonesty and misrepresentation. | Bola Tinubu | Image | The Whistler Newspaper |
| Jan 05, 2026 | AI-generated indecent images of children are being created and shared online, with children being the victims. The legal framework is lagging behind the technology, leaving children vulnerable to humiliation, coercion, and long-term psychological harm. | Children | Image | lbc.co.uk |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok AI on X is being used to generate sexually explicit deepfakes of children and women. Users are tagging the chatbot and asking it to generate images of minors and women wearing bikinis. In many cases, Grok follows these prompt and generates altered images depicting them in swimwear. This process is completely non-consensual and the original poster has no control over it. | Minors and women | Image | Beebom |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok AI was used to create obscene deepfake images, including morphed images of women, celebrities, and even Elon Musk himself. The images were spread on X, formerly Twitter, leading to bans and a 72-hour ultimatum from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Thousands of images were removed from X. | Women, Celebrities, Elon Musk | Image | The420.in |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Attackers are using deepfakes and synthetic identities to infiltrate companies through the hiring process. They create fake resumes and LinkedIn profiles, use voice cloning, and employ real-time video deepfakes to impersonate candidates during interviews. The goal is to gain access to company systems, steal data, divert funds, or prepare for larger attacks. Law enforcement has confirmed that some campaigns are tied to state-backed operations. | Companies, specifically hiring teams | Video, Audio | The Hacker News |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok, an AI chatbot, generated sexualized deepfake images of women and minors, including depictions of women being assaulted or sexually abused. This led to government responses from India, France, and Malaysia. | Women and minors | Image | Social Samosa |
| Jan 05, 2026 | AI-generated images were used to depict a meeting between President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. The images, shared on Tinubu's official X (formerly Twitter) account, were found to have a Grok watermark, indicating they were created using Grok, a generative AI chatbot developed by xAI. The purpose behind using AI-generated images for an official presidential engagement is unclear, and the incident has drawn criticism. | Bola Tinubu (President of Nigeria) | Image | thenigerianvoice.com |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A DoorDash driver faked a delivery using an AI-generated image resembling the customer's front entrance. The order was marked as delivered in the app with the image, but no driver was present and the food was not outside. DoorDash refunded the order and deactivated the driver's account. | Byrne Hobart, DoorDash | Image | The Economic Times |
| Jan 05, 2026 | State-backed groups have used AI to fake skills and infiltrate networks, but lacks specifics. | Companies, Networks | Help Net Security | |
| Jan 05, 2026 | A DoorDash driver allegedly used an AI-generated image to fake a delivery confirmation. The customer, Byrne Hobart, shared the incident on X, comparing a real photo of his doorstep with the AI-generated image used by the driver. DoorDash investigated and removed the driver's account. | DoorDash customer Byrne Hobart | Image | CXO Digitalpulse |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, is under investigation for generating sexualized deepfake images of women and minors. The chatbot generated and shared an AI image of two young girls, estimated to be between 12 and 16 years old, depicted in sexualized attire. | Women and minors | Image | Storyboard18 |
| Jan 05, 2026 | Users on X (formerly Twitter) used the platform’s AI chatbot Grok to digitally undress women whose photographs are publicly available online, replacing their clothes with bikinis or other sexualized imagery. Prompts like “@grok remove her clothes and put her in a bikini” were used. xAI acknowledged the issue and stated improvements were underway. | Women whose photos are publicly available online. | Image | The News Minute |
| Jan 05, 2026 | An AI-altered version of the song 'Saiyaara' was created using the voice of Kishore Kumar, generating millions of views. This has sparked debate about the ethics of using AI to clone deceased artists' voices, with concerns about exploitation and the lack of legal protection for personality rights in India. | Kishore Kumar (deceased singer) | Audio | Storyboard18 |
| Jan 05, 2026 | DoorDash banned a driver over an AI-generated fake delivery. | DoorDash | Tech in Asia | |
| Jan 04, 2026 | Elon Musk reposted an AI-generated video, uploaded by the right-wing X account Wall Street Apes, falsely depicting Venezuelans celebrating Maduro's downfall and expressing gratitude to Trump. X users identified the video as AI-generated due to unnatural movements and blurring. The video's license plates did not match those in Venezuela. Musk did not acknowledge the video's nature. | Elon Musk | Video | The Daily Beast |
| Jan 04, 2026 | India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ordered X to remove vulgar, obscene, and unlawful content, especially material generated using Grok, after complaints of obscene images and videos of women being generated and shared through fake accounts with the intent to denigrate them indecently. | Women in India, specifically obscene images and videos of women generated and shared via fake accounts | Image, Video | Storyboard18 |
| Jan 04, 2026 | Grok, the AI chatbot from XAI integrated into X, generated sexualized deepfakes of children. Manipulated images of women and minors. The investigations will look at the AI controls and the platform’s moderation pipeline, guardrails and content removal, and victim recourse. | Children, women, minors | Image | findarticles.com |
| Jan 04, 2026 | Users exploited Grok’s image-generation capabilities to produce sexualized depictions of minors. The AI was used to generate images of children in minimal clothing and suggestive poses. The AI was able to "undress" subjects in photos, including those of minors, without consent. | Minors | Image | WebProNews |
| Jan 04, 2026 | WWE wrestler Jordynne Grace was targeted by a user on X who used Grok AI to digitally modify a photograph of her, replacing her clothing with less clothing in a non-consensual manner. The user targeted multiple women. The tool has been used to generate sexualized images of women and minors, bypassing safeguards to 'strip' subjects in photos. A musician's photo was manipulated into a bikini image without her consent. | Jordynne Grace and other women/minors | Image | POST Wrestling |
| Jan 04, 2026 | X's AI chatbot, Grok, was used to generate sexualized images of women and children. Users prompted the bot to digitally strip down photos of Julie Yukari and others. Reuters found several cases where Grok created sexualized images of children. X users prompted the bot to create images of women in bikinis or less. In one case, a user supplied a photo of a woman in a school uniform and requested a "very clear micro bikini." | Julie Yukari and potentially other women and children | Image | KSL.com |
| Jan 03, 2026 | AI-generated sexually explicit deepfakes created with Grok on X after hundreds of women and teens reported manipulated “undressed” images shared on social media. Grok is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. Thousands of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes were generated by Grok and shared on X. | Hundreds of women and teens | Image | Security Affairs |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Following an announcement of Nicolás Maduro's capture, AI-generated images and videos surfaced on social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X, falsely depicting US DEA agents arresting him. These deepfakes leveraged AI tools and were based on AI-generated images initially posted on Instagram. Fact-checking confirmed the AI-generated nature of at least one image using Google DeepMind's SynthID, which detected a watermark. | Nicolás Maduro | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Grok AI chatbot allows users to generate sexualized images of women and minors, including digitally altering existing photos from X to depict them in lingerie, bikinis, or partially unclothed without their consent. Users are prompting the AI to remove clothing from images. The tool can pull photos from the social media platform X, including images of real individuals, and digitally modify them. The 'Edit Image' option on X allows users to modify images through text prompts without permission from the original poster. The company was warned this could happen and didn't take enough action to prevent it. The platform has been flooded with requests seeking sexually explicit edits. | Women and minors on X (formerly Twitter). Specific examples include Samantha Smith and Julie Yukari. | Image | The American Bazaar |
| Jan 03, 2026 | A plaintiff, Li, filed a lawsuit against Xiong for unpaid rent and utility fees. Li's daughter, Dong, submitted AI-generated images of water and electricity meters as evidence of Xiong's arrears. The images were created using 'Doubao AI'. The court detected the fake evidence due to a watermark on the images and inconsistencies in Dong's statements. Dong later admitted to fabricating the evidence and submitted authentic photographs. | Xiong | Image | Global Times |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Deepfake videos circulated on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok, falsely portraying George Will commenting on Donald Trump and Supreme Court rulings. AI was used to manipulate genuine interview clips of Will, altering his mouth movements and vocals to fabricate commentary. Thumbnail images also featured AI-generated fake pictures of Trump. The videos spread misinformation about Trump's financial records and a Supreme Court deadline. | George Will, Donald Trump | Video, Image | Snopes |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Grok AI's 'edit image' button was exploited to strip clothing from subjects in photos without their consent, creating erotic images of minors and non-consenting adults. This led to investigations in Paris and demands from Indian officials for X to remove the content. | Children and women in photos | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Jan 03, 2026 | The AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X, allowed users to modify images, leading to the creation of sexually explicit images of women and children by digitally undressing them. Women's rights activist Jessica Davies also became a target. | Real people (specifically women and children) on X, and women's rights activist Jessica Davies | Image | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Jan 03, 2026 | The Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on the social media platform X. The images depicted minors in minimal clothing, violating Grok's acceptable use policy. The images were later removed, and xAI acknowledged lapses in safeguards and is working to tighten them. | Children, specifically minors | Image | The Japan Times |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Users prompted X's AI chatbot, Grok, to generate sexualized images of Julie Yukari and other women based on uploaded photos. These images circulated on the platform. X ignored warnings about the potential for AI image generation to be weaponized for nonconsensual deepfakes. Reuters identified multiple cases of Grok creating sexualized images, including some of children. | Julie Yukari and other women including minors | Image | The Globe and Mail |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Users misused Grok's AI image generator to create non-consensual and sexualized images using prompts like 'undress,' 'change clothes,' and 'change to a bikini.' This led to manipulated images of Bollywood actors and Indian public figures going viral. | Bollywood actors and Indian public figures, women, children | Image | The Economic Times |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok AI chatbot generated images of children and women, including 14-year-old actress Nell Fisher, in minimal clothing or bikinis based on user requests. It also generated images with erotically placed tentacles on a stranger's selfie. The incident led to investigations and concerns from lawmakers and officials. | Nell Fisher and other unidentified women | Image | The Daily Beast |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, generated images of children and non-consenting women in explicit and sexualized scenarios based on user prompts. This included generating images of 14-year-old actress Nell Fisher without clothing and adding erotic elements to a stranger's selfie without consent. The platform is under investigation for potential breaches of the Digital Services Act and facing scrutiny for the spread of AI-generated non-consensual pornography. | Nell Fisher, non-consenting women | Image | The Daily Beast |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok AI was under scrutiny for generating sexualized, AI-generated images of women and minors, including images digitally stripping women of clothing. The AI acknowledged lapses in safeguards and is fixing them, and claims CSAM is illegal and prohibited. | Minors and women | Image | CBC |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok AI is accused of generating sexualized, AI-generated images of women and minors. A review found over 20 cases where images were digitally stripped of clothing. France and India have raised concerns and initiated investigations. | Women and Minors | Image | CBC |
| Jan 02, 2026 | The article describes how the Grok chatbot on X was used to generate non-consensual, sexualized images of real people, including celebrities and potentially children, in response to user prompts. Users were able to generate these images by instructing the bot with specific requests such as 'Put her in a bikini' or 'take her dress off'. xAI, the company that created Grok, has policies against sexualizing children, but the bot was still able to produce these images. The article also mentions how an image generating feature called Grok Imagine was used to generate topless videos of Taylor Swift. | Celebrities, noncelebrities, and potentially children | Image | The Atlantic |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Users reportedly generated explicit images of a child actress by digitally removing her clothing using the Grok AI chatbot. There were also reports of users using Grok to remove clothing or add bikinis to images of other women, including rapper Iggy Azalea, without their consent. | Child actress, Iggy Azalea | Image | Syracuse.com |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Students are using AI to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. In one case, AI-generated nude images swept through a Louisiana middle school. Two boys were charged. Students also prosecuted in Florida and Pennsylvania and expelled in places like California. One fifth grade teacher in Texas also was charged with using AI to create child pornography of his students. | Middle school students in Louisiana, and other students in Florida, Pennsylvania, and California. Also a fifth grade class in Texas | Image, Video | PBS |
| Jan 02, 2026 | AI-generated nude images swept through a Louisiana middle school. Two boys were charged after students' images were turned into sexually explicit deepfakes. One victim was expelled for fighting a boy she accused of creating the images. | Middle school students in Louisiana | Image | PBS |
| Jan 02, 2026 | The metalcore “band” Broken Avenue, with nearly 130,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, is suspected of being AI-generated, mimicking styles of Counterparts, Knocked Loose, and the Devil Wears Prada. The band's songs and artwork are suspected to be AI generated. All songs were uploaded in the past six weeks and credit “James Tolby” as composer and lyricist. Counterparts' singer Brendan Murphy has called out the suspicious act on X, seeking contact information for James Trolby. | Counterparts, Knocked Loose, and the Devil Wears Prada | Audio, Image | Stereogum |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, generated sexualized images of children and other individuals after users prompted it with vile requests, such as 'put her in a bikini' under pictures of real people on X. The AI complied with requests to morph images of minors, violating its own acceptable use policy. The morphed images were posted publicly on X. There was also non-consensual sexualized photo created of journalist Samantha Smith. | Minors, celebrities, and other individuals whose images were used to generate sexualized content. | Image | Los Angeles Times |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Users utilized Elon Musk's Grok to create sexualized images of women and minors without their consent, including digitally altering images to undress people. French authorities and India's Ministry of Electronics are investigating, with potential legal repercussions. | Women and minors | Image | Business Insider |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok chatbot allowed users to create AI images depicting children in minimal clothing, some in sexual situations. xAI acknowledged isolated cases and is working on improvements. | Children | Image | TMZ |
| Jan 02, 2026 | xAI's Grok is used to generate deepfake images that remove clothing from pictures of people without their consent. Users are applying prompts to photos of others, predominantly women, who did not consent to the edits. Examples include editing photos of young girls into skimpy clothing and sexually suggestive poses, and replacing clothes of a toddler with a bikini. World leaders and celebrities have also had their likenesses used in images generated by Grok. | Various individuals, including women, children, world leaders, and celebrities | Image | The Verge |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok AI generated images of young girls in sexualized attire based on a user prompt, potentially violating child sexual abuse laws. It also generates sexualized images of adult women without their consent based on prompts. | Potentially, young girls depicted in generated images; more broadly, women whose images are sexualized without consent. | Image | Straight Arrow News |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok AI generated sexualized images of what appear to be minors and adult women in response to user prompts, potentially violating CSAM laws. Some users also prompted Grok to create sexualized images of real women on X. | Potentially children, women on X | Image | Straight Arrow News |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Users generated AI-generated sexualized images of children on X using Elon Musk's Grok chatbot. The chatbot acknowledged failures in its safety systems and moved to fix them. The Internet Watch Foundation reported a sharp rise in AI-generated child sexual abuse material. | Children | Image | Interesting Engineering |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok's image tools were used to alter photos of real women, including public figures, into sexually explicit or revealing forms. Reports included bikini edits, deepfake-style undressing, and "spicy" mode prompts involving celebrities. There were also instances of images targeting Bollywood actors, influencers, and children under age 18. In one instance, Grok appeared to have issued a public apology post acknowledging it had generated and posted an image of two underage girls in sexualized attire, although this was later retracted. A Reddit thread catalogues user-submitted examples of inappropriate image generations, with some posts claiming over 80 million Grok images have been generated since late December, with a portion clearly created or shared without subject consent. | Women, influencers, minors, public figures including Iggy Azalea | Image | VentureBeat |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok, Elon Musk's AI, generated AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing on social media platform X due to lapses in safety controls. Users prompted the chatbot to produce these inappropriate images. Grok admits to safeguard failures and is working to strengthen protections. | Minors | Image | Latest news from Azerbaijan |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok, X's AI tool, generated sexual images of a minor after a user prompted it to remove clothing from an image of a 14-year-old actress. The Paris Prosecutor's Office is investigating X regarding this incident. | Minor Actress | Image | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Jan 02, 2026 | 50 Cent shared an AI-generated video that clowned Papoose for getting into a fight. The video imposed Papoose and Claressa Shields’ faces onto characters from the 1976 drama, Emma Mae. In response, Papoose posted an AI-generated video depicting a feminine version of 50 Cent twerking. | Papoose and 50 Cent | Video | Complex |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Elon Musk's AI Grok was used on social media platform X to digitally remove women's clothing in images, making them appear in bikinis or sexual situations without their consent. Samantha Smith reported her image being altered in this way, leading to further requests for Grok to generate more images of her. The AI image editing feature allows users to edit uploaded images, which has been criticized for generating photos and videos with nudity and sexualized content. | Samantha Smith and other women on X | Image | BBC |
| Jan 02, 2026 | xAI's chatbot Grok generated sexualized AI images of minors. Grok issued an AI-generated apology for the incident on December 28, 2025. The chatbot acknowledged the images could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US. xAI has remained silent, with Grok noting that xAI has identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them. | Children | Image | Ars Technica |
| Jan 02, 2026 | A fake video was generated showing Javed Akhtar with a topi on his head, falsely claiming he has turned to God. | Javed Akhtar | Image | Times of India |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Users are using AI chatbot Grok to alter real images of women, replacing clothing with bikinis or more extreme content without consent. Cathy Newman reported on a deepfake of herself. | Women, Cathy Newman | Image | UnHerd |
| Jan 02, 2026 | AI-generated videos on TikTok urging Poland to leave the EU (a so-called 'Polexit'). The videos featured young women wearing Polish national symbols. Polish officials suspect Russian disinformation due to syntax and alignment with Russian interests. | Poland, European Union | Video | UNITED24 Media |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Elon Musk's Grok AI allowed users to transform photos of women and children into sexualized images, generating and sharing an AI image of two young girls in sexualized attire. The images were then distributed on X and other sites without consent. | Women and Children | Image | Engadget |
| Jan 02, 2026 | A U.S. Rep shared an AI-generated video that falsely depicted Jack White telling Trump supporters to not listen to his music. White denied making the statement and criticized the representative for sharing the misleading video. | Jack White | Video | billboard.com |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Ahmad Alamolhoda, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Razavi Khorasan, alleged that footage and slogans from recent protests were fabricated using artificial intelligence. He claims Israeli media and "enemy-affiliated outlets" film crowds and then use AI technology to overlay anti-government chants onto the images. | Iranian protesters | Video | ایران اینترنشنال |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Debunked an AI-manipulated picture of the protests. | Iranian protests | Image | BBC |
| Jan 02, 2026 | Grok, an AI, was used to generate images of Elon Musk and Bill Gates in bikinis. Musk himself prompted the AI to create an image of himself. The incident has sparked controversy regarding the misuse of AI and privacy violations. | Elon Musk, Bill Gates | Image | Yahoo |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Leading Indian cinema celebrities fighting back against unauthorized deepfakes and AI-generated impersonations. Lawsuits involved fake trailers, synthetic endorsements, and nonconsensual obscene deepfakes. Courts issued orders for swift takedown of deepfakes and disclosure of user information behind illegal activity. | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR Jr.), R. Madhavan, and Shilpa Shetty | Image, Video, Audio | The National Law Review |
| Dec 31, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Collin Overend Pearson and another trooper engaging in intimate kissing in uniform was created and circulated among numerous troopers. The video included an audible voice stating, 'This is SWAT training, no homo.' | Collin Overend Pearson | Video | MyNorthwest.com |
| Dec 31, 2025 | A US congressman reposted an AI-generated video of Jack White calling potential fans who are also Trump supporters “fascists.” Jack White refuted the video. | Jack White | Video | Futurism |
| Dec 31, 2025 | AI-generated TikTok videos are spreading disinformation calling for "Polexit" and criticizing the pro-EU government. The Polish government suspects Russian disinformation and has requested EU action against TikTok for not moderating AI-generated content effectively. The TikTok channel was removed after complaints. | Polish government and public opinion regarding EU membership | Video | Notes From Poland |
| Dec 31, 2025 | AI-generated videos on TikTok promoting 'Polexit' and criticizing the pro-EU government were identified as potential Russian disinformation. The videos featured young women wearing Polish national symbols. The Polish government has requested the EU to take action against TikTok. | Polish Government, Polish citizens | Video | Notes From Poland |
| Dec 31, 2025 | A political consultant used AI to create a robocall impersonating President Joe Biden, telling New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in the primary. | Joe Biden | Audio | NBC News |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Katrina Law alleges her estranged husband, Keith Andreen, used AI voice cloning to impersonate her and send messages to people in her life, including a new romantic partner, in an effort to damage her reputation and career. Andreen allegedly had access to extensive footage of her speaking due to her television career, which she believes enabled him to recreate her voice. She also accused Andreen of hacking her social media and email accounts and placing a tracking device under her car. | Katrina Law | Audio | The Express Tribune |
| Dec 31, 2025 | A Washington State Patrol trooper is suing the agency, claiming coworkers circulated a deepfake AI video of him kissing another coworker. He alleges the agency targeted him due to his sexual orientation. | Washington State Patrol trooper | Video | FOX 13 Seattle |
| Dec 31, 2025 | A deepfake AI video was created depicting Trooper Collin Pearson kissing another trooper. The video is being circulated within the Washington State Patrol. The video shows Pearson in uniform with a Washington State Patrol vehicle in the background. A voice in the video says, 'This is SWAT training, no homo.' | Trooper Collin Pearson | Video | FOX 13 Seattle |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Congressman Tim Burchett posted an AI-generated video of Jack White on social media. The video featured a fake version of White declaring, "Don't even think about listening to my music, you fascist." The clip continues a false narrative that White forbids any Donald Trump supporters from attending his concerts. | Jack White | Video | Ultimate Classic Rock |
| Dec 30, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using AI to manipulate a clip of Jack White to make it appear as though he was telling Trump supporters not to listen to his music. U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett shared the video on X (formerly Twitter), adding a comment comparing White to Wednesday Addams. White responded on Instagram, criticizing Burchett for falling for the video and for his support of Donald Trump. The original video used footage of White giving an acceptance speech during the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. | Jack White | Video | Knoxville News Sentinel |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Yanis Varoufakis's image has been used to create deepfakes on YouTube. The deepfakes are used to spread misinformation. Algorithms prioritize engagement over truth, allowing misinformation to spread rapidly while the victims struggle to reclaim their own digital identities. | Yanis Varoufakis | Video | UnHerd |
| Dec 30, 2025 | AI-generated videos featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for 'Polexit' were posted on TikTok, targeting audiences aged 15-25. The videos showed women in Polish flag T-shirts making statements in favor of Poland leaving the EU. Some videos showed clear signs of AI use like desynchronized audio and visual. The account "Prawilne Polki" generated 200,000 impressions and nearly 20,000 likes in two weeks before being removed. Similar content using synthetic voices and generated faces repeats pro-Russian narratives on YouTube. | Polish citizens aged 15-25 | Video | Euronews.com |
| Dec 29, 2025 | A deepfake showed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling Ukrainians to set down their weapons; in 2023, a deepfake led people to falsely believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted state television to declare a full-scale mobilization. | Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin | Video | Foreign Affairs |
| Dec 27, 2025 | Scammers are recording people's voices during silent calls, then using AI to replicate the voice and solicit funds from friends and family or fake authorization from other services to steal their identity. The Honor Magic8 Pro's AI Scam Detection analyzes calls to detect cloned or synthesized voices and warns users. | Malaysian Honor Magic8 Pro users | Audio | Hitech Century |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Producer Harrison Walker is accused of using AI to clone Jorja Smith's vocals for his single, I Run. | Jorja Smith | Audio | Down To Earth |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Singer Jorja Smith accused producer Harrison Walker of using AI technology to clone her vocals for his single, I Run. Walker admitted to using AI-assisted processing to transform his voice but Smith's record label implied public confusion was created by the producer and his distributors. | Jorja Smith | Audio | The Conversation |
| Dec 24, 2025 | The Nomani investment scam uses AI-generated video testimonials of popular personalities to deceive users into investing in non-existent products. The deepfakes are becoming more realistic with higher resolution, reduced unnatural movements, and improved A/V sync. Victims are lured with promises of significant returns, but when they request payouts, they are asked to pay more fees or provide personal information. The scammers also use Europol- and INTERPOL-related lures to scam victims again, promising assistance with recovering stolen funds. | Users on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube | Video | The Hacker News |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Scammers used AI to clone "Amy's" voice and called her mother-in-law, claiming she was in jail and needed nearly $10,000 for bond money. The family paid the money before realizing it was a scam. Someone from the local area came to the East Aurora home to collect the cash in person. | Amy's parents | Audio | WKBW |
| Dec 23, 2025 | ICE used an AI-generated video of Santa Claus rounding up illegal immigrants and encouraging them to self-deport. The video shows Santa Claus putting on an ICE vest, handcuffing an undocumented immigrant, processing them at a federal facility, and loading them onto an ICE Air plane for deportation. | Illegal immigrants | Video | WBMA |
| Dec 23, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of AI-generated video clips, often referred to as "AI slop," and their impact on social media. It mentions specific instances of deepfakes, including racist deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. and violent content depicting women and girls being strangled. It also mentions the rise of "nazislop," AI videos that repackage fascist aesthetics. Mentions Sora AI. | Martin Luther King Jr., Women and Girls | Video | MIT Technology Review |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Extremist groups are using AI voice cloning to create propaganda and spread their message. Neo-Nazis are using AI to mimic Hitler's voice and create audiobooks of extremist texts. Islamic State media outlets are using AI to create text-to-speech renditions of ideological content. The Base and similar groups use it for imagery creation, planning, and research. | Various figures including Adolf Hitler, James Mason, and Anwar al-Awlaki (voice recreations); general public (for propaganda) | Audio | The Guardian |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Neo-Nazis are using AI voice cloning, especially ElevenLabs, to mimic Adolf Hitler's speeches in English. They are also using AI to create audiobooks of texts like James Mason's *Siege* using a custom voice model of Mason. Islamic State is using AI to create text-to-speech renditions of ideological content, translating extremist teachings from Arabic into multilingual content. Groups like The Base are using tools like ChatGPT for imagery creation and streamlining planning and research. | Adolf Hitler, James Mason, Islamic State Ideologues | Audio | The Guardian |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Two Canadians lost a combined $2.3 million to a deepfake crypto scam. One victim saw a deepfake video of Elon Musk promoting a crypto investment, and the other saw a video related to Dragon's Den. Both videos promised fast profits from small initial deposits. | Two Canadians from Ontario and Charlottetown | Video | Cryptopolitan |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Manipulated videos of Shah Rukh Khan were circulating online, portraying him as endorsing fraudulent investment and betting schemes. A video of Ukraine’s leader asked his country’s troops to surrender before being exposed as a fake. | Shah Rukh Khan, Ukraine's leader | Video | livemint.com |
| Dec 21, 2025 | AI-generated nude images of a 13-year-old girl and other female middle school students were circulated on social media and at school. The girl was eventually expelled for fighting a classmate who was showing the images around. | A 13-year-old girl and other female middle school students | Image | ABC News |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Criminals are using AI voice cloning technology to impersonate family members in distress and request urgent money transfers. They use a short audio sample to clone the person's voice and create a voicemail or phone call explaining they were in an accident, robbed, or injured. | Family members of individuals whose voices are cloned | Audio | The Guardian |
| Dec 20, 2025 | George Hendricks was scammed out of $45,000 after receiving personalized deepfake videos appearing to be from Elon Musk. The scammers used the deepfakes to convince Hendricks to pay shipping fees and invest in fake opportunities after he was initially contacted via Facebook and then WhatsApp. | George Hendricks | Video | Yahoo |
| Dec 20, 2025 | YouTube shut down Screen Culture and KH Studio, channels creating AI-generated fake movie trailers by splicing real trailer footage with AI-generated segments. Disney sent cease-and-desist letters due to IP infringement. Screen Culture created 23 versions of a fake *Fantastic Four* trailer. | Disney (IP infringement) | Video | Wide Open Country |
| Dec 20, 2025 | Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity posted an image depicting Shapiro in front of the Hollywood sign in California, holding a sign that read, “Newsom Shapiro 2028.” Doug Mastriano published an AI video clip of the governor holding a smartphone in front of him. | Josh Shapiro | Image, Video | LancasterOnline |
| Dec 20, 2025 | Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity posted an AI-generated cartoon-style image of Gov. Josh Shapiro criticizing his budget handling. She also created an image of Shapiro in front of the Hollywood sign with a 'Newsom Shapiro 2028' sign. State Sen. Doug Mastriano published an AI video clip of Shapiro posing for a selfie. | Josh Shapiro | Image, Video | WITF |
| Dec 20, 2025 | A 17-year-old from Burkina Faso created a fake video using AI depicting a coup in France. The video showed journalists reporting on a takeover by an unidentified colonel with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The video garnered millions of views and caught the attention of French President Emmanuel Macron. | Emmanuel Macron, France | Video | South China Morning Post |
| Dec 20, 2025 | A teenager from Burkina Faso created a deepfake video depicting a coup d'etat in France using AI. The video, titled 'Coup d'etat in France,' featured simulated news reports with images of the Eiffel Tower and police cars. The perpetrator admitted to creating the video for financial gain. | France, French Government | Video | South China Morning Post |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Charles Hooton pleaded guilty to child porn possession after police found 130 AI-generated images on his phone. He admitted to using an AI app to generate the explicit images. | Children | Image | ABC17NEWS |
| Dec 19, 2025 | AI voice cloning was used to create deepfake audio to impersonate family members in distress or high-profile public figures requesting money or sensitive information. Scammers would clone the voices of grandchildren and make distress calls to grandparents. Scammers were leaving AI-generated voice messages mimicking the voices of senior officials and prominent public figures. The messages were urgent requests for money or sensitive information. The targets were business executives and senior public officials. | Seniors, Business executives and senior public officials | Audio | TELUS |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Chinese regulators shut down online accounts that used AI to generate false content, fabricate policies, and spread illegal stock tips. Baidu's platforms were implicated in spreading AI-generated articles with sensational headlines that criticized regulatory policies and incited negative sentiment among investors. | Investors in the Chinese stock market, regulatory policies | Caixin Global | |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated videos to sell seeds for hosta varieties that don’t exist. Videos show unnaturally colored hostas, like a fictitious variety with enormous, purple leaves, or 'God’s rainbow,' a made-up plant that grows rainbow-colored foliage. One video advertises a 'midnight blue heart,' a rare black and blue hosta. | Consumers on TikTok | Video | Futurism |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Cybercriminals used AI-generated voice impersonations to trick a law firm into sending $12 million to the wrong account in a commercial real estate deal. The criminals monitored emails and mimicked voices using short audio samples. CEO Tyler Adams demonstrated deepfakes replacing co-founders face with celebrities using a tool. | Law firm involved in a $12 million commercial real estate deal | Audio | HousingWire |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Customers are using AI-generated images and videos of damaged goods (e.g., torn bed sheets, cracked ceramic cups, dead crabs) to falsely claim refunds from online shopping platforms. One specific case involved a crab seller on Douyin who identified inconsistencies in a customer's video of supposedly dead crabs, leading to the buyer's detention. | Ecommerce merchants, specifically those selling fresh groceries, low-cost beauty products, and fragile items like ceramic cups, and live crabs on Douyin. | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Customers are using AI-generated images and videos to falsely claim damaged goods and receive refunds from online retailers. Examples include AI-generated images of cracked mugs, torn bedsheets, and videos of dead crabs with inconsistencies in appearance and quantity. | E-commerce Merchants | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Dec 19, 2025 | North Koreans are posing as candidates for remote jobs to access employer’s confidential information and systems. Nearly every major company has hired or received applications from North Koreans using AI-generated interview answers or deepfake applicants to participate in video interviews. | Employers | Image, Video, Audio | JD Supra |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Deepfake videos surfaced showing opposition leaders saying things they had never said. AI-generated news anchors appeared to broadcast fabricated propaganda. False announcements circulated claiming that specific candidates had withdrawn from the race on the eve of the polls. | Opposition leaders and specific candidates in Bangladesh's parliamentary election. | Video, Audio | The Daily Star |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A former DA employee, Kristina Molina, filed an FBI complaint alleging that Save Alameda County illegally manipulated a recording of her during the recall campaign of former DA Pamela Price. Molina claims the audio was modified to make it appear she said things she never said. She accuses the group of circulating an AI-generated campaign video of her. | Kristina Molina | Audio, Video | KTVU |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Increase in AI-generated fake IDs and deepfake documents used for fraud in banking, hospitality, and digital onboarding. Examples include state and national ID templates, face-swapped IDs, blended synthetic identities and fabricated documents used to apply for loans/credit using stolen identities, open accounts or access financial services, check into hotels using forged documents, and evade KYC controls. One fintech client detects over 1,300 fraudulent identity documents weekly. Face-swap document fraud increased 200% year-over-year. | banking, hospitality, and digital onboarding | Image | Crowdfund Insider |
| Dec 19, 2025 | YouTube terminated two channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, with over 2 million subscribers and 1 billion views, for creating AI-generated fake movie trailers. These trailers used official studio footage and AI-generated visuals to create realistic 'trailers' for non-existent films, misleading viewers. The channels initially labeled the videos as fan trailers or parodies to regain monetization after initial demonetization, but later removed the disclaimers, leading to their termination. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging copyright infringement due to AI training models. | Studios (Disney specifically mentioned), Viewers of the trailers | Video | Mashable |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on Facebook falsely claiming a coup had taken place in France and that Emmanuel Macron had been overthrown. The video featured AI-generated visuals of a helicopter, military personnel, and a news anchor reporting on the coup. The video was traced back to a Facebook account in Burkina Faso and some videos had watermarks indicating it was generated by OpenAI's Sora 2. | Emmanuel Macron, France | Video | Euronews.com |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Plaintiffs in a California case were accused of submitting an AI-generated deepfake video as testimony. | Courts/Legal System | Video | Baltimore Sun |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Two YouTube channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, were terminated for creating AI-generated movie trailers for non-existent movies. These channels amassed millions of views and subscribers by misleading viewers with fake previews, violating YouTube’s policies on spam and misleading metadata. One video was a deepfake trailer for a fictional "Barbie 2" featuring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. YouTube initially demonetized both channels in March 2025, then permanently removed them after they reverted to their old practices. | YouTube viewers, Hollywood studios (Sony) | Video, Audio | WebProNews |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A deepfake video using Sudha Murty's face and voice went viral to promote a fraudulent investment scheme, promising returns of 20 to 30 times. Murty clarified she never endorsed such schemes and urged verification before investing. | Sudha Murty | Video, Audio | Storyboard18 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A teenager created and distributed sexually exploitative deepfake images of teachers on social media. He used deepfake technology to superimpose the faces of two female high school teachers, as well as a private academy senior and an instructor, onto nude images and distributed them on social media with sexually explicit captions. | High school teachers, private academy senior and instructor | Image | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A research team in China used Claude 2.0 to generate peer-review reports for 20 cancer-biology papers from eLife. The AI-generated reports fooled AI detection tools. The study found that Claude could write plausible citation requests and convincing rejection recommendations, raising the risk of journals rejecting good papers. Hydrologist at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences suspects that some referee reports were written by AI. Some journal editors are accepting AI-generated referee reports, unwittingly or otherwise, due to a shortage of peer reviewers. | eLife journal, researchers, journal editors | Nature | |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A six-second deepfake video surfaced showing Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing a blanket ban on visas for people from Pakistan and referencing Pakistani-origin terrorist Naveed Akram. The video was created using AI and the lip movements did not match the audio. | Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia | Video | Yahoo |
| Dec 19, 2025 | A deepfake video of Sudha Murty is being circulated on social media, falsely promoting investment opportunities. The link leads to a fake site designed to steal personal details. | Sudha Murty | Video | Deccan Herald |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Two YouTube channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, were shut down for posting AI-generated movie trailers that misled viewers into believing non-existent projects were real. The channels were initially demonetized and required to use disclaimers, but were eventually removed from YouTube when the disclaimers were not consistently used. | Viewers of YouTube channels Screen Culture and KH Studio | Video | Ars Technica |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Jaxen Cole, a social media personality, is accused of creating and distributing a deepfake video of Officer John Skehan using the officer's body camera footage. Cole allegedly manipulated the audio in the video to make it seem like the officer was saying things he did not say, with the intent to embarrass, harass, or damage the officer's reputation. The deepfake was allegedly posted to Cole's Instagram and Facebook accounts. | Laconia Police Officer John Skehan | Audio, Video | The Laconia Daily Sun |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A case in California involved plaintiffs accused of submitting an AI-generated deepfake video as testimony. The judge identified glitches (repeated eye blinks and looped video). Experts believe it may have already happened elsewhere and not been caught. | Legal system/Court | Video | WJLA |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Plaintiffs in a California court case were accused of submitting an AI-generated deepfake video as testimony. The judge noticed glitches but experts warn the technology is rapidly improving, making detection more difficult. Experts believe this is not an isolated incident and that deepfake evidence has likely been used in other courtrooms undetected. | Legal system, specifically a California court case | Video | WJLA |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Reports of 'sexual deepfakes' created using generative AI are increasing in Japan. Victims are primarily junior high and high school students, and in many cases, the perpetrators are fellow students. The deepfakes involve manipulating photos of the victims into sexual images, which are then distributed. One case involved a male junior high school student using generative AI to alter images of a female student from social media into nude images and selling them to other students. In another case, a high school student provided images of a female classmate to a man who altered them and posted them on social media. | Japanese junior high and high school students, particularly female students. | Image | 毎日新聞 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Scammers use AI voice cloning to impersonate family members (e.g., the 'hey mom scam') or IRS officials to trick people into sending money. They create a sense of urgency and anxiety to bypass rational thought. Scammers only need a three-second audio sample to clone someone’s voice. The article references a McAfee survey indicating that one in four people have experienced or know someone who has experienced an AI voice cloning scam. | Individuals and families | Audio | KSNB |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Two YouTube channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, were terminated for using AI to generate deceptive movie trailers. These trailers combined genuine film clips with AI-fabricated visuals, misleading viewers. Disney issued a cease-and-desist notice due to AI copyright violations. | Movie studios (Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, Disney) | Video | | Cord Cutters News |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Deepfake images and videos were created to make it appear that Cristiano Ronaldo was joining the Fast & Furious movie. These included celebrity deepfake selfies with the cast, fake behind-the-scenes footage, and AI-generated movie posters. | Cristiano Ronaldo and Fast & Furious movie | Image, Video | AI or Not |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Two YouTube channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, were shut down for using AI to create fake trailers featuring Disney-owned characters like Mickey Mouse and Deadpool. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, claiming copyright infringement because Google's AI services were generating and distributing unauthorized content using Disney's IPs. Disney sought to have Google block its IPs from being used in the future and disclose which copyrighted works were utilized during the training of AI models. | The Walt Disney Company | Video | Bleeding Cool News |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A deepfake video was created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to attack Maine Gov. Janet Mills. The video depicted Mills giving a young boy an estrogen kit and implied she supports children receiving hormone therapy without parental consent. The video uses AI-generated visuals to misrepresent her policy positions on transgender issues. | Janet Mills | Video | LGBTQ Nation |
| Dec 18, 2025 | The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is selling its face-swapping and voice cloning technology to scammers and online fraud operations in Southeast Asia. Scammers use Haotian and other deepfake tools to substantiate their deceptions by allowing victims to "videochat" with the character they believe they have been talking to. UN officials have identified more than 10 face-swapping tools potentially used by cybercriminals in Southeast Asia, including for cryptocurrency scams and police officer impersonation. | Victims of romance and cryptocurrency scams, and impersonated police officers | Video, Audio | WIRED |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Deepfake videos targeting Payal Gaming, Nivetha Thomas and Sreeleela have been circulating online. A 1 minute 20 second video falsely placed Payal Gaming in Dubai. Nivetha Thomas demanded removal of unauthorized AI altered images from her photoshoots. | Payal Gaming, Nivetha Thomas, Sreeleela | Video | Deccan Chronicle |
| Dec 18, 2025 | YouTube terminated Screen Culture and KH Studio, channels creating deepfake movie trailers using AI. Screen Culture spliced official footage with AI-generated images to create deceptive trailers, exploiting YouTube’s algorithm. Hollywood studios requested ad revenue from these videos, and Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter for copyright infringement by AI training models. | Hollywood studios (Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, Disney) | Video, Image | Deadline |
| Dec 18, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created depicting Nigerians taking rifles to church after recent attacks in the region. The image contains visual inconsistencies indicative of AI generation, such as misshapen fingers, overlapping people, and illogical clothing. The image was detected as AI-generated by Google's SynthID Detector and InVID-WeVerify's synthetic image detection tool. | Nigerians/Christians, Kwara community | Image | Yahoo News UK |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Kyler James Quinn, a registered sex offender, was arrested for allegedly creating pornographic videos and images, including child sex abuse material, using artificial intelligence and pictures of a real person. The victim discovered AI-generated videos and images of herself on a pornographic website. Quinn used pictures of the woman previously posted on various social media accounts, including some when she was a teenager and earlier, to create the images. | A woman whose images were used to create pornographic videos and images. | Image, Video | KSL.com |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Reports of 79 cases between January and September of deepfake pornography in Japan misused images of children under 18. High school students accounted for 25 of these cases, junior high school students accounted for 41, and elementary school students accounted for 4. In 42 cases, the fake images were made by classmates or schoolmates. Female celebrities have also been victims. | Minors and Female Celebrities in Japan | Image | nhk.or.jp |
| Dec 18, 2025 | An AI-generated image of a tiger in CCC Township was created by Suram Kiran and circulated on social media, causing panic. The Forest department investigated and confirmed it was AI-generated and filed a complaint with the police. | CCC Township residents | Image | Deccan Chronicle |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A filmmaker created a deepfake of Sam Altman for a documentary after failing to secure an interview. The deepfake, named Sam Bot, was created in India and used to explore the potential relationships between humans and AI. The documentary also includes commentary from a former OpenAI safety engineer. | Sam Altman | Video | WIRED |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A Chinese doomsday cult, The Church of Almighty God, is using AI-generated content, including 'Torah lessons' in Hebrew (essentially sermons), AI-generated photos of soldiers (wounded, funerals) and AI-generated audio based on religious texts, to evangelize Jewish Israelis online. They create fake Facebook groups and WhatsApp groups to spread their message. | Jewish Israelis | Image, Audio | Haaretz |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A viral photo circulated online appearing to place Cristiano Ronaldo alongside the Fast & Furious crew, sparking debate about its authenticity. Tyrese Gibson shared the image on X, leading to speculation that Ronaldo might be in the upcoming film. Viewers accused the image of being AI-generated, but there was no official confirmation from Universal Pictures, the Fast & Furious team, or Cristiano Ronaldo. | Cristiano Ronaldo, Fast & Furious cast | Image | Reality Tea |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos distorting the likeness and voice of Fred Rogers, showing him doing and saying things inconsistent with his character, including curse-laden insults, jokes about school shootings, and lewd jokes with Tupac Shakur. The videos were created using OpenAI’s Sora. Fred Rogers Productions contacted OpenAI requesting his voice and likeness be blocked. The videos have also migrated to other platforms including TikTok and Instagram. | Fred Rogers | Video | Technical.ly |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A video allegedly featuring Payal Gaming circulated on social media. Payal Gaming clarified that she is not in the video and it has no connection to her life. Fans have largely dismissed it as an AI-generated deepfake. | Payal Gaming | Video | The Bridge Chronicle |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Marina vd Roest underwent deepfake therapy where she confronted an AI-generated deepfake of her abuser. The deepfake was created using photos of the abuser and was operated by a therapist during the session. The patient could speak to the deepfake and express their feelings, with a therapist present to guide the conversation. This was part of a pilot study and a larger study is now underway in the Netherlands. | Marina vd Roest | Video | Slate |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AI voice cloning is used by scammers to impersonate family members or IRS officials, creating a sense of urgency to trick victims into sending money. Scammers require only a three-second audio sample to clone a voice. | Individuals and families | Audio | WMTV 15 NEWS |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Several incidents are described. In one, a junior high student used AI to alter a classmate's photo and sold it. In another, a student manipulated images from a school event album accessible via school-issued tablets. A teaching assistant misused a high school graduation album. A high school student asked someone online to sexualize a classmate's image; the image was then posted online. The images were then used to create deepfake pornography. | Schoolmates, primarily junior high and high school students | Image | 朝日新聞 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A deepfake video surfaced after a shooting at Bondi Beach, falsely depicting Australian PM Anthony Albanese announcing the cancellation of visas for Pakistani citizens. The audio was digitally altered using AI, and the video was determined to be AI-generated with a high probability. | Anthony Albanese, Pakistani citizens | Video, Audio | Vishvas News |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Following the Bondi beach terror attack, a deepfaked audio clip of NSW Premier Chris Minns making false claims was circulated. An AI-altered image of victim Arsen Ostrovsky was used to falsely portray him as a crisis actor. AI-generated images of Ahmed al-Ahmed were used to promote crypto schemes. False claims circulated that one of the suspects was a Pakistani national. | Chris Minns, Arsen Ostrovsky, Ahmed al-Ahmed, Pakistan | Audio, Image | The Guardian |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AI-manipulated images of actress Sreeleela appeared online. She has filed a police complaint. | Sreeleela | Image | hungamaexpress.com |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A viral video circulated online falsely associating Payal Gaming's name and image with the content. Users suspected the video was manipulated or created using AI, suggesting it was a deepfake. Payal Gaming clarified the situation on Instagram and stated that legal steps are being taken. She also urged the public to refrain from sharing the material. | Payal Gaming | Video | hungamaexpress.com |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AI-generated images were shared on Facebook and X, falsely showing Vladimir Putin visiting religious sites in India with Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath after Putin's official trip to India. The images, created with Google AI, depicted them at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the Ganges in Varanasi. These images contained visual errors and were debunked as AI-generated. | Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Yogi Adityanath | Image | Yahoo |
| Dec 18, 2025 | A deepfake MMS video falsely claiming to feature Payal Gaming went viral. Payal Gaming has publicly stated that the video is not her and is a deepfake. She is taking legal action against the misuse of her name. | Payal Gaming (Payal Dhare) | Video | lokmattimes.com |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Adam Erdman used AI photo-editing software to alter photos of children taken from a parent's social media account to make the children appear nude. He saved three altered images on his computer. He was sentenced under Act 125 of 2024, a Pennsylvania law that makes it a crime to possess AI-generated child sexual abuse material. | Children whose photos were taken from a parent's social media account | Image | Lehigh Daily |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Explicit deepfake video of Payal Gaming was circulated online, claiming to be her 'Dubai MMS' video. Sreeleela and other celebrities have also been targeted with deepfakes, which included non-consensual fake explicit content. Sreeleela made a post addressing the misuse of technology and defending herself and colleagues. | Payal Gaming, Sreeleela, Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt | Video, Image | BollywoodShaadis |
| Dec 18, 2025 | MITRE ATLAS flags deepfake KYC threat using face-swap tools. The published scenario outlines how attackers can use widely available face-swap tools and virtual camera software to inject deepfake imagery into mobile onboarding journeys, bypass so-called liveness checks and complete identity verification under a false identity. The team first gathered identity data and high-definition facial images of targets from online sources. They then used Faceswap, a desktop application that applies generative AI, to create live face-swapped videos. The Red Team next configured Open Broadcaster Software to stream these videos. They added Virtual Camera: Live Assist, an Android app that replaces the phone's default camera feed with an incoming video stream. The system accepted the feed, and the liveness check did not flag the session as suspicious. This process enabled successful authentication under a fictitious identity. | banks, financial services providers and cryptocurrency platforms, and their customers | Video | SecurityBrief Asia |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Japanese police reported over 79 cases of explicit deepfakes targeting individuals under 18 between January and September of this year. More than half involved students from the same schools as the victims. The deepfakes were obscene fake images created using generative artificial intelligence and other technologies. | Underage victims (specifically junior high, high school, and elementary school students in Japan) | Image | The Japan Times |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Prosecutors are seeking to use an AI voice clone of murder victim Joyce Yost in court. The voice clone was created using Elevenlabs, using a 40-year-old police interview and a text transcript of Yost’s sworn testimony from a preliminary hearing. The defense team has requested more information on how the voice clone was created. | Joyce Yost | Audio | KSLTV.com |
| Dec 17, 2025 | An AI startup called Doublespeed was hacked, revealing its backend operation of AI-generated social media accounts used to promote products without disclosing they were ads. One example is the account 'Chloe Davis,' featuring an AI-generated woman hawking a massage roller on TikTok. | Users of social media platforms, specifically TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and X | Image, Video | Futurism |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Japanese police reported 79 cases of deepfakes targeting individuals up to age 17 between January and September of this year. In 53.2% of these cases, the deepfakes were created by students from the same schools as the victims. Generative AI was confirmed to be used in 14 cases, and image-editing apps in 2 cases. The remaining cases are believed to be AI-generated. | Under-18 year old students in Japan | Image | nippon.com |
| Dec 17, 2025 | AI-generated images of a person of interest in a shooting at Brown University were created by internet users. These images attempted to unmask the suspect based on low-resolution or masked photos released by law enforcement. Experts warn that these AI-generated images are inaccurate and could lead to the misidentification and harassment of innocent individuals. | Person of interest in Brown University shooting | Image | WJAR |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Sam Altman used GPT Image 1.5 and Sora 2 to generate deepfakes of himself. These included images of him as a fireman with abs, videos of him in bizarre scenarios like riding a horse in a dress and grilling a dead Pikachu. OpenAI also posted a deepfaked video of Altman announcing the new AI app Sora 2. | Sam Altman | Image, Video | Futurism |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Following the Bondi Beach attack, AI-generated images and manipulated content spread online. One image depicts gunman Naveed Akram with Captain Chandra Kant Kothari, falsely suggesting a connection. Fact-checking confirmed the image as AI-generated. A fake Facebook profile depicted someone resembling Akram wearing a Jewish yarmulke, implying the gunman was Jewish. Misogynistic attacks targeted female police officers, using misleading images to criticize their actions. | Naveed Akram, Captain Chandra Kant Kothari, female police officers | Image | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Dec 17, 2025 | AI-generated images of Bondi gunman Naveed Akram were used to spread false information online. One image depicted him with an Indian official, falsely implying a connection. A fake Facebook profile with AI-generated images showing him wearing a Jewish yarmulke was also circulated, furthering antisemitic conspiracies. Additionally, misleading images were used to criticize female police officers involved in the response. | Naveed Akram, Indian authorities, female police officers | Image | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Dec 17, 2025 | AI-generated images misusing her identity are circulating online. She warns of legal action. | Nivetha Thomas | Image | Hindustan Times |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Gaming content creator Payal Dhare, also known as Payal Gaming, has allegedly become the target of a deepfake video after claims surfaced on social media that an explicit “MMS” clip featuring her was circulating online. She has stated that the individual depicted in that video is not her, and it has no connection to her life, her choices, or her identity. Appropriate legal steps are being taken to address the misuse of her name and likeness. | Payal Gaming | Video | IGN India |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Doublespeed, an a16z-backed startup, was hacked, revealing its use of a phone farm to manage AI-generated social media accounts promoting products, often without proper disclosure. The hacker gained control of over 1,000 smartphones and reported the vulnerability to Doublespeed on October 31st but maintained access at the time of the report. This constitutes a deepfake attack in the sense that AI-generated content is used to deceive users for promotional purposes. | TikTok users and potentially brands being promoted without proper disclosure | 404 Media | |
| Dec 17, 2025 | A fake AI-generated image circulated online depicting Arsen Ostrovsky, a victim of the Bondi Beach attack, having fake blood applied to his face. The image was created to falsely suggest the attack was a 'false flag' operation and that Ostrovsky was a 'crisis actor.' The image contained visual inconsistencies and a digital watermark identifying it as AI-generated by Google. | Arsen Ostrovsky | Image | Full Fact |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Deepfakes are used in fake influencer livestreams and AI-generated video IDs to trick users into sending tokens to scammers and bypass verification checks. Scammers combine deepfaked video, synthetic voices, and fabricated documents to build false identities. | crypto users and platforms | Video, Audio | CoinDesk |
| Dec 17, 2025 | The content discusses deepfake romance scams, specifically mentioning a French woman who was duped into a fake AI relationship with Brad Pitt. It also discusses the deepfake resurrection of Peter Cushing in Rogue One and the legal dispute surrounding it. | French woman, Peter Cushing | Image, Video | Chris Skinner's blog |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Threat actors used deepfake technology to impersonate an organization's CFO on a video call and convince a finance employee to send them $25 million. | Finance Employee | Video | TechTarget |
| Dec 17, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting dead Myanmar rebel forces was shared on social media. The image was identified as AI-generated using Google's SynthID tool and reverse image search. Visual errors typical of AI-generated content were also present. | Myanmar PDF rebel forces | Image | Yahoo |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Scammers use AI voice cloning to simulate a family member's screams, claiming they are being held captive and demanding ransom. They instruct the victim to stay on the line and wire money. | Families of potential kidnapping victims | Audio | KMPH |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Scammers use AI voice cloning to mimic a family member's voice (screams) during a virtual kidnapping scam to extort ransom money. They call family members claiming their relative is held captive. | Families | Audio | KMPH |
| Dec 17, 2025 | An intimate video clip circulated online, alleged to feature Payal Gaming. Fans claim it is an AI-generated deepfake intended to damage her reputation. Payal Gaming has not issued a statement. | Payal Gaming | Video | News18 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | News On 6 anchor Tess Maune's photo was altered using AI and posted on a Facebook page called Alabama Empire Buck Outdoors. The altered image shows Maune with a digitally modified face alongside two boys who are not her children, creating a fake family scenario. The Facebook page redirects to a business that claims their page was hacked. | Tess Maune | Image | News On 6 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely depicted Arsen Ostrovsky as a shooting victim applying fake blood before the Bondi Beach terror attack. The image contained AI artifacts like warped figures, mangled text on his shirt, and an extra finger on the make-up artist. Although Google's SynthID watermark was present and detectable by Gemini, other AI image detectors failed to identify the image as fake. The image was spread on X, and Ostrovsky addressed the claims, stating he saw the images while being prepped for surgery. | Arsen Ostrovsky | Image | Gizmodo |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Two employees of Rubin's Deli in Elyria, Ohio, fabricated a robbery report using AI-generated content, prompting a large police response. The employees, Todd Durst and Luis Acevedo Jr., are facing criminal charges for swatting, obstructing official business, and inducing panic. | Rubin's Deli and Elyria Police Department | Cleveland.com | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | A deepfake image of Arsen Ostrovsky, a victim of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, was created using Google's AI and used in antisemitic propaganda on a Russian disinformation site, Pravda. The deepfake was identified via Google's Synth ID detector tool and visual analysis revealed inconsistencies. | Arsen Ostrovsky | Image | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | SNL is suspected of using an AI-generated image during a 'Weekend Update' segment. The image accompanied a joke about President Trump and featured characteristics of AI-generated content. An AI detector gave the image a 99.9% probability of being AI-generated. | Saturday Night Live (SNL) | Image | Deadline |
| Dec 16, 2025 | A volleyball coach used an AI-generated document outlining manipulation tactics to groom a teenage girl. The document was titled 'Hypothetical Counter-Influence Plan' and outlined phases such as 'rebuild her autonomy' and 'shift the power dynamic.' | Teenage girl | CBS News | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | AI-generated images falsely depict victims of the Bondi Beach attack as actors with fake blood and makeup. Ahmed El-Ahmed, a hero in the attack, was misidentified by an AI chatbot. A real injured victim, Arsen Ostrovsky, was misrepresented in a deepfake image. A Pakistani man, Naveed Akram, with the same name as one of the attackers, was wrongly identified using his photo. | Victims of Bondi Beach attack, Ahmed El-Ahmed, Arsen Ostrovsky, Naveed Akram | Image | Daily Mail |
| Dec 16, 2025 | The game Arc Raiders used AI generated voices for text-to-speech lines instead of hiring voice actors. Neil Newbon, voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, criticized the use of AI voiceover, stating it sounds uncanny and robs performers of work. | Arc Raiders | Audio | PC Gamer |
| Dec 16, 2025 | xAI’s Grok amplified misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting using deepfakes. | Bondi Beach shooting | CNN | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | AI-generated deepfakes are distorting Fred Rogers' likeness and warping his voice. The videos were created using OpenAI’s new generative AI video app Sora and depict Rogers doing and saying things inconsistent with his character, such as sharing lewd jokes with Tupac Shakur. Fred Rogers Productions has contacted OpenAI to request that his voice and likeness be blocked on the app. The videos have also migrated to other platforms including TikTok and Instagram. | Fred Rogers | Video | Pittsburgh's Public Source |
| Dec 16, 2025 | AI-generated voices impersonating Walmart employees named "Carl" or "Emma" are used to scam customers. The AI caller claims you've been charged $919.45 for a PlayStation 5 purchase and prompts you to press one or call back to cancel or dispute the order. If engaged, a live scammer requests personal and financial information to "cancel" the order. | Walmart Customers | Audio | Fox 59 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | AI-generated music tracks mimicking the artists' styles and lyrics were uploaded to streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music) under their profiles without consent. The tracks were created to fraudulently collect royalties. Weak distributor security allowed the scammers to easily upload content. | Emily Portman, Paul Bender, The Sweet Enoughs | Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dance act Haven accused of using AI to imitate British vocalist Jorja Smith. Haven claims they asked the AI for soulful vocal samples but did not respond to an earlier request for comments. | Jorja Smith | Audio | The Guardian |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Adam Erdman used AI to alter vacation photos of his co-worker's daughters to make them appear naked. He was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison under a statute banning AI-generated sexual images of children. | Co-worker's daughters (ages 6 and 9) | Image | WFMZ.com |
| Dec 16, 2025 | A woman was targeted in a pet scam where scammers used AI to generate a fake image of a dog on an operating table and a voicemail claiming to be a veterinarian. The scammers demanded $2,136 for emergency surgery for the missing dog. | Donna Davis | Image, Audio | KXXV |
| Dec 15, 2025 | George Hendricks, a 69-year-old man from Florida, was scammed out of $45,000 after being targeted with a deepfake video of Elon Musk. The scammers used the video to convince Hendricks that he had won a car and $100,000, and they then asked him to pay for the car's shipping and to make an investment. Hendricks sent the scammers nearly $37,000 before realizing he had been scammed. The deepfake video was AI-generated. | George Hendricks | Video | The Independent |
| Dec 15, 2025 | OpenAI's Sora 2 app allows users to create deepfake videos from text prompts. Examples include a fake video of a figure skater with a cat, Mario in a police chase, and a fake news interview about SNAP benefits that made it to Fox News. Numerous fake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. led to his likeness being banned from the app. | Martin Luther King Jr., SNAP Benefits recipients | Video | WBUR |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Rubin's Deli was targeted in a swatting prank using AI-generated audio. Employees were responsible for the prank. | Rubin's Deli | Audio | Chronicle Telegram |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Bellingcat investigation found Mark Resan is behind deepfake porn websites RefacePorn and DeepfakePorn, which generated over $331,000 in sales from July 2024 to August 2025. The sites created sexually explicit images and videos using AI without the consent of those featured, primarily women. | Women featured in deepfake pornography | Image, Video | Bellingcat |
| Dec 15, 2025 | A deepfake video mimicked Amy Klobuchar's voice and likeness, appearing to show her criticizing a recent jeans ad featuring Sydney Sweeney. The video went viral. | Amy Klobuchar | Video, Audio | investigatetv.com |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Rashmika Mandanna became the victim of a deepfake. The incident served as a jarring wake-up call, demonstrating with terrifying clarity how easily generative artificial intelligence (AI) could be weaponised against someone. | Rashmika Mandanna | Video | Tempo.co English |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google regarding AI-generated videos of Disney characters being uploaded to YouTube. Disney alleges copyright infringement, claiming Google's AI video generators (Veo and nano banana pro) were trained using Disney's IPs and can generate infringing content. Google removed 'dozens' of videos featuring AI-generated Disney characters from YouTube in response. | Disney | Video | Tech Times |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Google removed dozens of AI-generated videos featuring Disney characters (Deadpool, Moana, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, etc.) from YouTube after receiving a cease and desist letter from Disney, who accused Google of copyright infringement. Disney also claimed Google used copyrighted works to train AI models like Veo and Nano Banana. Disney had previously taken action against Character.AI, Hailuo and Midjourney for similar AI-related copyright infringements. | Disney | Video | Engadget |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Users are creating inappropriate, sexist, and racist videos using Disney's IP on OpenAI's Sora, including videos featuring Jeffrey Epstein, recreations of the Holocaust film, and Pixar-style videos of 9/11. These videos exploit Disney's characters and intellectual property to create offensive content. | Disney's IP, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars | Video | Inside the Magic |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Trump amplified a deepfake of himself promising Americans access to “medbeds”. The president also shared an artificially created video in which he is seen wearing a crown and flying a jet over “No Kings” protesters, dumping feces on them. Racist slop depicting Black people talking about how they game the SNAP program was rampant. | Americans/Protesters | Video, Image | Rolling Stone |
| Dec 14, 2025 | AI-generated videos showing young girls in sexualized clothing are circulating on TikTok. Maldita group found over 20 accounts that posted over 5,200 videos of girls in bikinis, school uniforms, or tight clothing. The accounts have more than 550,000 followers and nearly six million ‘likes.’ The clips’ comment sections often include links to groups on Telegram selling child sexual abuse material. Maldita reported 12 such groups to Spanish police. Many videos were not clearly labelled as AI-generated, despite TikTok rules. | Young girls | Video | The European Conservative |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Thousands of AI-generated sexualized videos of minors were found on TikTok. These videos depicted young girls in sexualized clothing or suggestive positions, including school uniforms and bikinis. The accounts posting these videos had over 550,000 followers and amassed nearly 6 million likes. Comments on the videos often contained links to Telegram groups selling child pornography. | Minors | Video | Tekedia |
| Dec 13, 2025 | A network of over 150 YouTube channels spread fake, anti-Labour videos, accumulating over a billion views. These channels used AI-generated content to promote anti-Labour narratives and false accusations about Keir Starmer. The network included channels like Britain News-night, TheUKPoliticalBrief, and UK NewsCore. YouTube removed the channels after intervention. | Keir Starmer, Labour Party | Video | The Guardian |
| Dec 13, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Ukrainian soldiers surrendering or in peril, some using the likeness of Russian livestreamers to spread false narratives. The videos aimed to undermine morale and public support for Ukraine. Sora 2 was used to create the deepfakes. 21 AI-generated videos of Ukrainian soldiers reviewed by NBC News in recent weeks that appear to have been created or manipulated using advanced artificial intelligence programs, resulting in some so realistic that they offer few hints of their origins. | Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian government | Video | NBC News |
| Dec 13, 2025 | AI-generated videos showing animals exhibiting unusual behaviors are flooding social media, causing misinformation and negatively impacting wildlife conservation. An example includes a video of a gorilla breaking glass in a zoo. | Zoos and animal conservation groups | Video | KWCH |
| Dec 13, 2025 | Scott Porten was arrested for possession and transmission of child pornography, including over 500 AI-generated images of nude prepubescent children found in his Dropbox account. The investigation stemmed from a cyber tip reported by Dropbox to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children. | Children | Image | WPEC |
| Dec 13, 2025 | A viral image depicting Donald Trump using a walker in the White House circulated online, with claims it was leaked after he signed an executive order. AI analysis suggested inconsistencies indicating it was likely AI-generated rather than a genuine photograph. | Donald Trump | Image | Times of India |
| Dec 13, 2025 | Google removed AI-generated videos depicting Disney-owned characters (Mickey Mouse, Deadpool, Star Wars, The Simpsons, Frozen, Moana, Toy Story, Deadpool, Iron Man, Lilo & Stitch, and Winnie the Pooh) after receiving a cease and desist letter from Disney. The videos were created using Google's AI video tool, Veo. Disney also demanded Google implement safeguards to prevent AI tools from generating Disney-owned characters and cease using Disney's characters to train AI models. | Disney | Video | Variety |
| Dec 12, 2025 | An image circulated online purportedly showing Donald Trump using a walker as a mobility aid. It was determined to be AI-generated using Google's Gemini AI assistant. | Donald Trump | Image | Snopes |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Scammers cloned the voice of Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto to solicit donations from prominent Italian business people. Massimo Moratti fell victim to the scam and lost money. Sharon Brightwell was targeted by scammers who cloned her daughter's voice and faked a car accident and miscarriage to scam her out of $15,000. | Giorgio Armani, Patrizio Bertelli, Massimo Moratti, Sharon Brightwell | Audio | thesenior.com.au |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Daniel Broussard, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on his cell phone. The phone was seized by halfway house staff, where Broussard was serving a 40-year federal sentence. The CSAM was discovered on December 11th. | Children | Image | KPLC 7 News |
| Dec 12, 2025 | A deepfake image of Donald Trump using a walker was circulated on social media. Several signs indicate it is fake, including inconsistencies in human details, backgrounds and objects. AI analysis tools and digital watermarks further confirmed the image's artificial origin. | Donald Trump | Image | WCVB |
| Dec 12, 2025 | A deepfake image of Donald Trump appearing to use a walker circulated on social media. AI analysis and a SynthID watermark confirmed it as fake. The article provides tips on how to spot AI-generated images. | Donald Trump | Image | WCVB |
| Dec 12, 2025 | The article describes an attempt to deepfake David Dobrik. | David Dobrik | Yahoo | |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Seniors received phone calls from scammers impersonating their grandchildren, claiming to be in distress and needing bail money after a car accident. The scammers allegedly used AI to clone the voices of the victims' family members. Five seniors in Saskatoon lost a total of $45,000 in November. A man and a woman were arrested after collecting money from a victim's house. | Jill Finn and other seniors in Regina and Saskatoon | Audio | CBC |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Voiceover artist Gayanne Potter's voice was allegedly used without permission to train an AI announcer called Iona for ScotRail. She claims her work for ReadSpeaker was intended for accessibility and e-learning software, not wider commercial purposes. The AI voice was a "dreadful" robotic version of her. ScotRail has since replaced Iona with a new AI announcer. | Gayanne Potter | Audio | BBC |
| Dec 12, 2025 | AI-generated podcasts are flooding the market, some cloning voices without consent and generating content based on events like when Charlie Kirk was shot to create sensational podcasts. | Steven Bartlett, Erica Mandy, voice actors, Charlie Kirk | Audio, Video | Los Angeles Times |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Inception Point AI created two podcast shows called “Charlie Kirk Death” and “Charlie Kirk Manhunt” as a part of a biography series after Charlie Kirk was shot. | Charlie Kirk | Audio | Los Angeles Times |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Hong Kong activist Carmen Lau, living in exile in the UK, was targeted with AI-generated sexually explicit images sent to her neighbors. The images were included in letters bearing a Macau stamp and contained personal information along with text suggesting she was a sex worker. This incident is believed to be an intimidation tactic. | Carmen Lau | Image | Hong Kong Free Press |
| Dec 11, 2025 | The Washington Post launched AI-generated personalized podcasts, which included errors such as misattributing or inventing quotes and inserting commentary, leading to concerns about editorial quality. | Washington Post | Audio | https-//www.semafor.com |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Deepfake pornography is being used to target female democracy activists. Carmen Lau, a pro-democracy activist and former councillor in Hong Kong, had digitally faked sexualized images of her sent to her former neighbours in Maidenhead. Yao Zhang also had deepfaked images spread about her. | Carmen Lau, Yao Zhang, and other female pro-democracy activists | Image | The Times |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google accusing them of copyright infringement due to Google Gemini's ability to create imagery including copyrighted Disney characters. Google's AI tools can generate images of Disney characters, while OpenAI's ChatGPT refuses to create such images due to copyright issues. | Image, Video | Android Authority | |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Disney sent Google a cease-and-desist letter alleging that Google AI models are infringing on its copyright protections. Disney claims that Google AI users can use its models to create content that is too similar to its copyrighted characters like Darth Vader. | Disney | Image, Video | CNET |
| Dec 11, 2025 | AI generated images of Billie Eilish at the 2025 Met Gala circulated when she did not attend. An AI generated video was submitted as evidence in a California housing dispute in 2025. AI generated images are being used to mislead people into believing false news, such as an image of the Louvre Museum on fire paired with a false headline. | Billie Eilish, California Court System, Louvre Museum | Image, Video | bgr.com |
| Dec 11, 2025 | An AI-generated video of the Mayor of Gloucester, Ashley Bowkett, was created by councillor Alastair Chambers. The video depicted the Mayor in ceremonial robes stating he would not allow an investigation into the city council's finances. The video was posted on Facebook and was created to highlight the city council's financial difficulties. | Ashley Bowkett, Mayor of Gloucester | Video | BBC |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Disney accuses Google of copyright infringement using AI models to generate infringing images and videos of Disney characters. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google demanding they stop the alleged infringement in their AI systems, citing examples of images generated by text prompts in Google's AI apps. | Disney | Image, Video | Variety |
| Dec 11, 2025 | AI-generated political videos used for memes, entertainment, and disinformation. Mentions Trump using AI imagery. An account on facebook named 'USA Journey 897' posted AI videos of ICE raids and one video of a Walmart employee being detained. | Political figures, Walmart employee | Video, Image | The Conversation |
| Dec 11, 2025 | AI-generated videos and images depicting what appears to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions were found on TikTok. These videos garnered millions of likes and led to links for child pornography on Telegram. Despite being flagged, TikTok initially failed to remove many of the violating accounts and videos. | Children | Video, Image | CNN |
| Dec 11, 2025 | The report describes deepfake-as-a-service platforms becoming widely available and used in corporate impersonation attacks where attackers impersonated executives to instruct employees to transfer money to fraudulent accounts (Singapore example). It also details AI-powered social engineering campaigns targeting high-value personnel and the use of fake identities in phishing campaigns (India example), as well as use in political manipulation in Philippine elections. Finally, fraudulent access to bank accounts are mentioned. | Corporations and Individuals | Video, Audio, Image | Cyble |
| Dec 11, 2025 | California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted an AI-generated video depicting Trump, Hegseth, and Miller in handcuffs as a troll response to a White House post about illegal immigration. | Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller | Video | Fox News |
| Dec 11, 2025 | A cryptocurrency fraud network used deepfake videos of celebrities and politicians to trick victims into investing in fake cryptocurrency investment platforms, resulting in €700 million in damages. The network was dismantled in a coordinated operation across multiple European countries. | Cryptocurrency investors | Video | Bitdefender |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Digitally-altered, sexually explicit images of at least one student were shared online. The images were digitally fabricated. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation. | Student(s) at Corbett High School | Image | KPTV |
| Dec 11, 2025 | A nude AI-generated image of a minor student was created and circulated among students at Corbett High School. The principal conducted an internal investigation for three days before reporting the incident to the police. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident as it may involve child sexual abuse material (CSAM). | Minor Student | Image | KATU |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Great Schools Trust is using AI deepfakes to provide bespoke feedback videos for each child after AI marks assessments. This will be trialled after feedback from staff, students, and parents. The goal is to provide personalized tuition and free up teachers' time. Deepfakes will also help absent pupils catch up and translate parent messages. The trust emphasizes that using AI is voluntary for teachers. | Students at Great Schools Trust | Video | BBC |
| Dec 11, 2025 | An AI-generated nude image of a student was allegedly shared by another student, prompting a student walkout at Corbett High School. | A student at Corbett High School | Image | KOIN.com |
| Dec 10, 2025 | AI-generated ads using digitally fabricated experts or deepfake videos and audios of celebrities are used to promote products like weight-loss pills, cosmetics, and illegal gambling sites on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. These ads are becoming increasingly difficult to detect, and the South Korean government is planning to implement labeling requirements and strengthen monitoring to combat them. | Consumers, Celebrities, Experts | Image, Video, Audio | PBS |
| Dec 10, 2025 | AI-generated images that could constitute child sexual abuse material were posted online. The images were of at least one student from Corbett High School. The images were posted to social media but removed by the time administrators reported it. | At least one student of Corbett High School | Image | OregonLive.com |
| Dec 10, 2025 | The article mentions a synthetic speech of Joe Biden and a cartoonish video of Donald Trump. Both are used as examples of deepfakes and AI impersonations that can be misleading and harmful. | Joe Biden and Donald Trump | Video | TALKERS magazine |
| Dec 10, 2025 | A woman lost $15,000 after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter. The caller — actually an AI-generated voice — said there had been a car crash and demanded immediate payment. | Woman (lost $15,000) | Audio | WVVA |
| Dec 10, 2025 | An AI-generated phone call threatened a shooting at Conway High School. The call came in just after 10 a.m. on Dec. 9, and said a shooter was coming, according to police. About 12 hours later, a bomb threat was called in at the Target on Seaboard Street in Myrtle Beach. | Conway High School | Audio | WBTV |
| Dec 10, 2025 | An AI-generated video allegedly depicting students engaged in inappropriate behavior is circulating. The school and police are investigating. | Radnor High School students | Video | NBC10 Philadelphia |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Ja Rule circulated AI-generated images depicting 50 Cent with Diddy, escalating their ongoing feud. Marlon Wayans also shared one of the images. The images appear to have been created with artificial intelligence. | 50 Cent | Image | Complex |
| Dec 10, 2025 | AI-generated nude images of Corbett High School students were created and posted on social media. At least one student admitted to creating the picture. The images were deleted by the time the report was made and the extent of the distribution is not fully known. Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident. | Corbett High School Students | Image | KATU |
| Dec 09, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting several students inappropriately is being investigated by Radnor High School and Radnor Township Police. The families of the involved students have been contacted and provided with support. The school has launched an internal investigation. | Several students at Radnor High School | Video | 6abc Philadelphia |
| Dec 09, 2025 | North Korean hackers used deepfakes of hosts and other participants in a Zoom meeting. They then introduced audio difficulties and instructed participants to install a malware patch. | Zoom users | Audio, Video | ZDNET |
| Dec 09, 2025 | This article from Malwarebytes discusses the growing threat of fake job applicants using AI-generated resumes, fake identities, and potentially deepfake interviews. The goal is financial gain, identity fraud, algorithm testing, or system access for cybercrime. It is not a specific attack, but a discussion of the threat. The article suggests that deepfake interviews are still rare, but the technology is evolving. | Organizations, Recruiters | Video, Audio | Malwarebytes |
| Dec 08, 2025 | AI-generated music by 'bands' like The Velvet Sundown, Breaking Rust, and Xania Monet are deceiving listeners and impacting the music industry. The Velvet Sundown fooled listeners on Spotify. Breaking Rust had a song top Billboard charts. Xania Monet uses AI for music and voice but human-written lyrics. These examples highlight the increasing sophistication and potential impact of AI-generated content on the music industry. | Listeners of streaming services, Music Industry | Audio | Iowa Public Radio |
| Dec 08, 2025 | Ben, an acquaintance of Jessica Guistolise, created deepfake pornographic images and videos of women, including her, using a 'nudify' app. The images were created using screengrabs from social media. The article also mentions another victim of a deepfake created by a rejected date. | Jessica Guistolise and other women | Image, Video | glamour.com |
| Dec 06, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors are being used on social media platforms like TikTok, X, Facebook, and YouTube to promote supplements, specifically for Wellness Nest. Real footage of health experts is manipulated to falsely show them endorsing products, including claims about menopause and conditions like 'thermometer leg'. Full Fact uncovered hundreds of these videos featuring impersonated doctors and influencers. Some doctors found doctored videos of themselves recommending products with unproven benefits. | Prof David Taylor-Robinson, Duncan Selbie, Prof Tim Spector, Dr Michael Mosley, and other doctors | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Dec 06, 2025 | Three teenagers in Iowa were arrested for creating and sharing naked images of minors using AI. The images were shared through a local school and social media. Two of the teens were charged with six counts of first-degree harassment, five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and one count of dissemination of obscene material. The other teen faces six counts of first-degree harassment and six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. | Multiple minors in Fremont County, Iowa | Image | The Des Moines Register |
| Dec 05, 2025 | The article describes how someone broke into a bank account using an AI-generated voice. The attacker used ElevenLabs to clone a voice and then use that voice to authenticate and gain access to the account. This occurred in 2023. | A bank account | Audio | 404 Media |
| Dec 05, 2025 | A database containing over a million images and videos related to AI image generation was exposed. The database, belonging to SocialBook and MagicEdit.app, included AI-generated pornographic images, face-swapped images (including potentially of children), and unaltered images of real individuals, possibly uploaded without their consent. The exposed database held numerous files that appeared to be explicit, AI-generated depictions of underage individuals and, potentially, children. | Potentially unknowing individuals whose images were used to create deepfakes, including possible children. | Image, Video | ExpressVPN |
| Dec 05, 2025 | Patrizia Schlosser, a German journalist, was targeted with deepfake images of herself naked and performing sex acts with animals, posted on the Mr DeepFakes website. Mr DeepFakes also hosted deepfakes of female celebrities, politicians, European princesses, wives and daughters of US presidents, depicting them being kidnapped, tortured, shaved, bound, mutilated, raped, and strangled. The site also posted 6,000 pictures of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's face for users to create deepfake pornography. The site shut down on May 4 after investigators believed they had identified Mr DeepFakes. | Patrizia Schlosser, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, female celebrities, politicians, European princesses, wives and daughters of US presidents | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Dec 05, 2025 | Google's Nano Banana Pro AI image generator is creating racialized 'white savior' visuals in response to prompts about humanitarian aid in Africa, sometimes appending the logos of real charities. These images typically depict white women surrounded by Black children, often with stereotypical imagery of poverty. The charities whose logos were used have stated they did not give permission for their use and are concerned about the misrepresentation. | World Vision, Save the Children UK, Doctors Without Borders, Peace Corps, Red Cross | Image | The Guardian |
| Dec 04, 2025 | Scammers used AI voice cloning to impersonate a woman's mother, claiming a man had a gun to her head and demanding money. The scammers spoofed the caller ID to appear as the mother's phone number. The woman's brother received the same call. Police were involved. | Woman and her family in Lawrence, Kansas | Audio | City of Lawrence, Kansas (.gov) |
| Dec 04, 2025 | A woman received a call from emergency dispatch, hearing her mother's voice in the background saying a man had a gun to her head and was demanding money. The caller ID was her mother's phone number. The woman's brother received the same call. Police were dispatched and located the mother's phone, which led to a vehicle stop. It was determined the mother was not in danger but it was an AI voice cloning scam. | Mother of the caller and her brother. | Audio | City of Lawrence, Kansas (.gov) |
| Dec 04, 2025 | Jodie's images were used on platforms for fake dating profiles, adverts for sex work, and posted on Reddit and other online forums with invitations to deepfake them into pornography. The deepfakes ended up on porn sites. Her best friend was responsible. | Jodie | Image | The Guardian |
| Dec 04, 2025 | Catering platform Forkable replaced restaurant photos with AI-generated images without warning, leading to customer and restaurant owner dissatisfaction. The AI-generated images were described as 'uncanny valley' and 'creepy', with one customer describing it as potentially running afoul of false advertising. The company has reverted back to traditional photography in response to criticism. | Restaurants using Forkable, Boichik Bagels | Image | Eater San Francisco |
| Dec 04, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of AI-generated deepfakes used for sexual abuse, detailing incidents involving celebrities, schoolgirls, and teachers. A study by Monash University interviewed perpetrators and victims, revealing motivations such as peer reinforcement, curiosity, and monetary gain. The article mentions a specific investigation in Sydney involving deepfakes of female high school students. | Celebrities, schoolgirls, and female teachers (including Taylor Swift and female students from a Sydney high school) | Image, Video | Monash Lens |
| Dec 03, 2025 | Harrison Walker (Haven) allegedly used AI to clone Jorja Smith's vocals on the track 'I Run,' which went viral on TikTok. The label, FAMM, claims the song infringed on copyright by impersonating Smith and misled listeners into thinking it was an unreleased Jorja Smith track. The uncredited vocals were revealed to be Walker's processed through Suno's generative AI. The track has been banned by streaming services after takedown notices. Haven re-released the track with new vocals, but FAMM maintains that both versions infringe on Jorja's rights. | Jorja Smith | Audio | DJ Mag |
| Dec 03, 2025 | Bella Lenz's grandparents were targeted in a voice cloning scam. Scammers used AI to clone the voice of Bella's cousin and convinced the grandparents to wire them over $50,000 by claiming the cousin was in trouble abroad. | Bella Lenz's Grandparents | Audio | KJZZ |
| Dec 03, 2025 | Beth Holland was scammed by an online ad on Facebook featuring deepfakes of Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Carnie Wilson, and her doctor, Dr. David Amron promoting a skin cream called “Svelta Venastra” for lipedema. The footage was pirated and digitally manipulated. Al Roker was also a victim, with a deepfake video of him promoting a product to reverse hypertension. Meta removed the lipedema cream ad featuring Winfrey. Holland received the cream but it didn't help. She got a refund by reporting fraud to her credit card company. | Beth Holland, Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Carnie Wilson, Dr. David Amron, Al Roker | Video | TODAY.com |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Amazon used AI to generate English dubs for anime series like 'Banana Fish' and 'No Game, No Life' using text-to-speech software, resulting in robotic and unexpressive voices. This led to criticism from fans and voice actors, prompting Amazon to remove the AI dubs from some shows. | Fans of anime series, voice actors | Audio | Futurism |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A teacher, David R. McKeown, was sentenced to 135 years in prison for creating sexual AI images of students and engaging in sexual conduct with an animal. The investigation was initiated by a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Detectives found evidence of McKeown using AI to generate child sexual abuse images and disseminating students' personal information and photographs. | Students | Image | WESH |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Milagro Cooper was found liable for promoting an A.I.-generated deepfake porn video of Megan Thee Stallion, resulting in $75,000 in damages and potential coverage of Megan's legal fees. The deepfake video damaged Megan's reputation and led to the loss of major endorsements. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | WPEC |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A.I. deepfake porn video | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | cw34.com |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Amazon added an English dub track featuring AI voices to the anime series Banana Fish. This was labeled as an 'AI beta.' The dub was heavily criticized by fans and influencers, leading Amazon to remove the option, resulting in no English dub available. | Banana Fish anime series and its audience | Audio | IGN India |
| Dec 02, 2025 | YouTube's deepfake detection tool raises concerns about Google potentially training AI models with creators' faces. While YouTube states they don't use creator biometric data for AI model training, concerns remain. Doctor Mike has seen increased deepfake videos, including one on TikTok promoting a supplement. | Mikhail Varshavski (“Doctor Mike”) | Video | New York Post |
| Dec 02, 2025 | An AI voice manipulation in an ad targeted a state senator, leading to a lawsuit. | State senator | Audio | WSOC TV |
| Dec 02, 2025 | AI-generated videos were posted on Instagram claiming to show Israeli missiles striking Iranian missile bases. The videos contained glitches typical of AI-generated footage, such as distorted objects, inconsistent shadows, and bizarrely shaped digits on a clock. An AI detection tool assessed the video as 99.8% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Three of the clips were AI generated, likely with prompts designed to mimic a scene in a clip aired by Iranian television. The account that published the combined video clip posted AI generated footage in the past. | Iranian missile bases | Video | Yahoo |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Amazon Prime Video used AI-generated English dubs for anime, specifically the series Banana Fish, leading to outrage from fans and industry professionals. The AI dubbing is criticized for potentially causing job loss for voice actors, lacking emotional nuance, undermining artistic integrity, and potentially using existing actor performances without consent. | Amazon Prime Video and potentially voice actors | Audio | Chronik.fr |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A deepfake pornographic video was created and circulated online by a blogger, Milagro Cooper, with the intent to depict Megan Thee Stallion. Cooper was sued for defamation and found liable in court. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | bet.com |
| Dec 02, 2025 | AI-generated images circulated online, falsely depicting Sean 'Diddy' Combs hugging inmates and taking selfies in prison. TMZ confirmed the images were fake, and Combs' representative condemned the manipulated visuals. | Sean 'Diddy' Combs | Image | International Business Times UK |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A deepfake pornographic video featuring a woman resembling Cara Hunter was circulated on WhatsApp in April 2022. The video led to vitriolic messages and personal distress for Hunter, nearly ending her political career. The police initially couldn't investigate due to technological limitations and lack of specific laws. | Cara Hunter | Video | The Guardian |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Cara Hunter, a Stormont politician, was the victim of a deepfake pornographic video circulated on WhatsApp in April 2022. She received abusive messages from strangers who viewed the video. The police were unable to investigate due to technological limitations. Hunter identified the platform where the video was released as encrypted. She later became a campaigner against deepfake abuse. | Cara Hunter | Video | The Guardian |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A song falsely attributed to a 'famous Sikh singer' named BV Singh was released. The song, titled 'Godi Media,' criticizes Indian media for its support of the Modi government. Analysis revealed the song was AI-generated and the singer does not exist. The YouTube channel Jamnoor Records features several such AI-generated songs, which are aimed at ridiculing the Indian government and leaders. | Indian media, Indian government | Audio | NewsMeter |
| Dec 02, 2025 | AI-generated doppelgänger promoted a 'miracle' supplement on TikTok. Full-on channels created weaponizing these types of AI deep fakes, whether it was for tricking people to buy a product or strictly to bully someone. Used youtube likeness detection tool to review dozens of AI-manipulated videos a week. | Mikhail Varshavski (Doctor Mike) | Video | CNBC |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Mikhail Varshavski, known as Doctor Mike on YouTube, encountered a deepfake of himself on TikTok promoting a "miracle" supplement. This AI-generated doppelgänger used his likeness to mislead viewers, which concerned him due to his established credibility as a physician. | Mikhail Varshavski (Doctor Mike) | Video | CNBC |
| Dec 02, 2025 | An AI-generated image circulated on social media showing Bashar al-Assad in Moscow's Red Square. The image contained errors like distorted building proportions and irregularities in Assad's features. It was identified as AI-generated via a watermark and technical examination. | Bashar al-Assad | Image | IntelliNews |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Deepfake attempts have surged in Africa, with Zambia experiencing a 967% increase, DRC a 367% increase and South Africa a 269% increase. Nearly one in five people in Africa have been directly targeted by deepfake attacks. The report warns of autonomous fraud agents capable of forging synthetic identities and imitating user behavior. | Individuals and Businesses in Africa | Businessday NG | |
| Dec 02, 2025 | The article details several incidents of AI-generated videos being used to spread misinformation and provoke outrage. Examples include a fake CCTV video of children in a UK classroom led in Muslim prayer, AI-generated videos with anti-immigration sentiments, and videos of people allegedly reacting to SNAP payment delays. These videos were designed to provoke strong emotional reactions and spread misinformation, often targeting specific groups or political issues. Some videos included racist content. | Welfare recipients, Muslims, SNAP beneficiaries, UK immigration debate | Video | The Independent |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Documents with instructions on how to create AI deepfake sex images were posted to Indiana's state government website. These documents advertised apps and tools that can generate images that artificially removes a person's clothes. | Individuals whose images were used to create deepfake sex images. | Image | IndyStar |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Multiple incidents of deepfake pornographic images or 'nudified' images of female students being created and shared among classmates. Incidents occurred at multiple schools in different countries. Perpetrators are often male students. The images are often shared via social media or messaging apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat. The effects on the victims included feeling violated, humiliated, and betrayed, with some experiencing severe distress. Police were involved in some cases, and students were sometimes removed from school. | Female students at multiple schools (Extremadura, Spain; Bacchus Marsh grammar, Victoria, Australia; Westfield high school, New Jersey, USA; Two private schools in the UK; unnamed school) | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Dec 02, 2025 | AI-generated images were used in advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to deceive users into purchasing cheap goods from fraudulent sellers posing as UK businesses. The AI-generated images created realistic storefronts and models to mislead victims. | Consumers on Facebook and Instagram | Image | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Dec 02, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting exploding or booby-trapped packages being stolen from porches are circulating online. These videos are staged or fake and are not real incidents of porch piracy. The videos are intended to be humorous or to deter porch piracy, but authorities warn against imitating them due to potential legal liabilities. | General Public (viewers of social media) | Video | CBS News |
| Dec 02, 2025 | YouTuber Milagro Gramz was found liable for defaming Megan Thee Stallion and intentionally causing emotional distress by promoting a deepfake pornographic video of Megan. Gramz encouraged her followers to view and share the altered video on social media, which violated Florida law against revenge porn and the use of AI deepfakes. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | Enstarz |
| Dec 02, 2025 | A finance worker wired $25 million after a deepfake conference call in 2024. Also, in one 2024 episode a deepfake of Elon Musk was used to promote a scam investment platform, duping thousands into phony crypto schemes. Also, deepfakes impersonated executives to approve fraudulent transactions. | finance worker | Video | WebProNews |
| Dec 01, 2025 | A blogger, Milagro Gramz, shared a sexually explicit deepfake video of Megan Thee Stallion. The video was AI-crafted and posted without her consent. A jury found the blogger liable for defamation and emotional distress, awarding Megan Thee Stallion $75,000 in damages. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | AOL.com |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Blogger Milagro “Milagro Gramz” Cooper defamed Megan Thee Stallion by amplifying false claims, coordinating with Tory Lanez, and spreading a sexually explicit deepfake video of Megan Pete. Cooper was found to have intentionally inflicted emotional distress and encouraged her social media followers to view the manipulated video. The jury awarded damages and allowed Pete to recoup legal fees. | Megan Thee Stallion (Megan Pete) | Video | essence.com |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Deepfakes are used to impersonate people and ask for money. One incident involved a deepfake of the Armenian Prime Minister promoting a fake investment opportunity. Another involved deepfakes of a surgeon. The deepfakes exploit cultural familiarity and trust within the Armenian community. | Armenian diaspora | Video, Audio | The Armenian Weekly |
| Dec 01, 2025 | An AI-generated song titled "I Run" by HAVEN. allegedly uses an AI clone of Jorja Smith's voice. Smith's label, FAMM, issued a takedown notice and is seeking royalties, claiming AI models trained on Smith's vocals were used, even after the song was re-recorded. FAMM alleges HAVEN.'s team promoted the track by implying it was an unreleased Jorja Smith song and invited Smith for a remix to legitimize it without disclosing the AI manipulation. | Jorja Smith | Audio | Stereogum |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI-generated images circulated online depicting Sean 'Diddy' Combs in prison with other inmates. The images included details such as him smiling and hugging an inmate, and posing with ramen noodles and baby oil. A representative for Combs confirmed the images were AI fabrications and not real. | Sean 'Diddy' Combs | Image | Yahoo News UK |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Roger McConnell was arrested for using an AI platform to generate sexually explicit images depicting a minor. He admitted to creating and altering the AI-generated content and was charged with Possession of Child Pornography under Texas Penal Code §43.26, which now includes AI-generated or computer-fabricated depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct. | Minor(s) | Image | Hello Woodlands |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted an AI-generated image of Franklin the Turtle attacking drug boats. The image was a parody book cover with Franklin wearing U.S. military gear and attacking drug runners from a helicopter. This was in response to a report about U.S. military strikes on alleged drug traffickers where Hegseth allegedly gave a command to kill everybody aboard a boat. | U.S. military strikes on alleged drug traffickers and Democrats critical of Pete Hegseth | Image | NJ.com |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting Diddy inside prison were published by TMZ, showing him interacting with imagined inmates. His spokesperson confirmed that these images are AI fabrications. | Diddy | Image | HOT 97 |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Milagro Gramz, accused of promoting a deepfake pornographic video of Megan Thee Stallion, was found liable for defamation and intentionally inflicting emotional distress by coordinating with Tory Lanez to discredit Megan. Gramz also boosted the reach of the sexually explicit deepfake video. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | Rolling Stone |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Milagro Cooper (aka Milagro Gramz) created and spread an AI-generated pornographic video of Megan Thee Stallion, leading to a defamation lawsuit. The jury found Cooper liable and ordered her to pay $75,000 in damages. The deepfake video caused Megan Thee Stallion significant emotional distress, impacting her mental health and career, leading to loss of music contracts. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | CBS News |
| Dec 01, 2025 | A Florida jury ruled in favor of Megan Thee Stallion in a case involving a deepfake. Further details about the specific nature of the deepfake are not provided in the content. | Megan Thee Stallion | Law360 | |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Amazon's Prime Video rolled out a beta program using generative AI to create English and Latin American language dubs of anime series, including Banana Fish and No Game No Life Zero. The AI-generated dubs were poorly received by fans due to their low quality, lack of emotion, and instances of Japanese voiceovers randomly appearing. The initiative replaces existing human-created dubs in some cases. The main problems identified are: awful quality, intonation and pacing issues, lack of emotion, random Japanese voiceover. | Anime Dubbing Industry, Voice Actors, Anime Fans | Audio | Gizmodo |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting Coralie Alison and her colleagues being raped or tortured are being shared on social media. These images use details from their social media profiles. Some images depict Alison with her face sliced up, throat slit, decapitated, or being minced alive. | Coralie Alison and her colleagues at Collective Shout | Image | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Coralie Alison and her colleagues at Collective Shout have been targeted with AI-generated deepfakes depicting them being raped, tortured, and subjected to violent acts. These images include realistic details from their social media profiles. The deepfakes were shared on social media platforms by anonymous online predators. | Coralie Alison and her colleagues at Collective Shout | Image, Video | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Kendrick Lamar's "Heart Part 5" video featured deepfakes of figures including Jussie Smollett related to his 2019 controversy. Jussie Smollett addressed the deepfake in an interview. | Jussie Smollett | Video | HotNewHipHop |
| Dec 01, 2025 | A finance worker was tricked into transferring $25 million based on a fraudulent, deepfake-laden video conference. Attackers orchestrated an entire video call populated with deepfake versions of the company's CFO and other senior staff. | Finance worker of a company | Video | Kyndryl |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI soundalikes of public figures such as President Trump crassly narrating video game duels, actress Emma Watson reading Mein Kampf and podcaster Joe Rogan touting scams quickly went viral. Worse, fraudsters began using AI cloning tools to impersonate loved ones’ voices and steal millions in sophisticated deepfake swindles. A clone of Joe Biden's voice was used in a robocall campaign. Audiobook narrators Karissa Vacker and Mark Boyett alleged that ElevenLabs used copyrighted audiobooks to train its models. | Donald Trump, Emma Watson, Joe Rogan, Karissa Vacker, Mark Boyett, Joe Biden, unnamed fraud victims | Audio | Forbes |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI Ashley was a voice clone of air talent Ashley Elzinga used on what was once Alpha Media’s Live 95.5 (KBFF) in Portland. The station was transparent about when listeners were hearing AI Ashley, the project was quietly shuttered for undisclosed reasons. | Ashley Elzinga | Audio | Radio Ink |
| Dec 01, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Will Smith eating spaghetti were created using various AI models (ModelScope, MiniMax, Google's Veo 3). The initial videos were of poor quality, but later versions became more realistic. Will Smith himself acknowledged the videos in a TikTok post. | Will Smith | Video | Business Insider |
| Dec 01, 2025 | Thai pop singer Waruntorn “Ink” Paonil reported to police that her face was being used for deepfake pornographic pictures and videos posted and shared online. Four online accounts were involved in sharing pictures featuring Ink’s face on other people’s bodies, generated by AI. Police are investigating. | Waruntorn “Ink” Paonil | Image, Video | bangkokpost.com |
| Nov 30, 2025 | A deepfake video was created depicting Neil deGrasse Tyson claiming that the Earth is flat. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Video | CBC |
| Nov 30, 2025 | Amazon used AI to generate Spanish and English dubs for the anime series *Banana Fish*. The AI-generated dubs were released as beta features on Prime Video. The dubs were poorly received, described as "hideously lifeless robot talking." A voice actor stated he would no longer work for Amazon if they continued to use AI-generated dubs. | Amazon Prime Video Viewers, Voice Actors | Audio | AV Club |
| Nov 29, 2025 | An AI-generated artist called Breaking Rust created a song, "Walk My Walk", that Blanco Brown believes rips off his style and may have been trained on his music. The song topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs Sales chart. Breaking Rust is linked to Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, who also created Defbeatsai. A co-writer on Blanco Brown’s 2019 project, Abraham Abushmais, appears to be involved with Defbeatsai. | Blanco Brown | Audio | whiskeyriff.com |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Amazon released AI-generated English and Spanish dubs for 'Banana Fish' which were criticized for poor quality, robotic delivery, mismatched timing and dialogue misalignment. Voice actors, including Daman Mills, publicly condemned the move. | Amazon, Prime Video, Banana Fish | Audio | IMDb |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social showing him holding a sign reading “Trump 2028, Yes!”. The image sparked fresh discussion of the 22nd Amendment's two-term limit. | Donald Trump | Image | Qazinform |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Amazon added an English dub track to the anime series *Banana Fish* using AI voices. After backlash from fans who criticized the quality of the AI dub, Amazon removed the AI dub option. | Amazon and Banana Fish anime | Audio | IGN |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Several companies used AI-generated images and fake backstories to pose as UK businesses on Facebook and Instagram, selling cheap goods from Asia. Examples include Mabel & Daisy, which used AI-generated images of a mother and daughter, and Harrison & Hayes, which used an AI-generated image of a shopfront. Users were shown these ads on Facebook and Instagram and were deceived into buying products from these companies. Claire Brown was persuaded to buy two dresses for £73 from Luxe and Luna London, after seeing the company's adverts on Facebook. | Meta users who were deceived into buying products from fake companies | Image | BBC |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Meta is accused of allowing companies to use AI-generated images and backstories to create fake ads on Facebook and Instagram, tricking consumers into buying cheap goods from Asia under the guise of UK businesses. Several companies were named and described as using AI generated imagery for shop fronts. | Consumers on Facebook and Instagram | Image | BBC |
| Nov 29, 2025 | A podcast teaser featuring Nikhil Kamath and Elon Musk was released, but many speculated that it was AI-generated. Grok, an AI model, suggested the video used AI for face morphing between the two. The video shows Kamath and Musk looking at each other and laughing but not speaking. | Elon Musk | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Nov 28, 2025 | People generated fake images and videos of a homeless intruder inside their homes and sent them to family members to provoke a reaction. In multiple cases, families believed the images were real and called 911, prompting police responses. Law enforcement agencies in several states have warned that these AI-generated intruder hoaxes can divert resources from real emergencies and potentially lead to dangerous situations. In October two juveniles in Ohio were criminally charged in connection to one of the incidents. | Families, Law Enforcement | Image, Video | Spectrum News |
| Nov 27, 2025 | The States of Guernsey are proposing a law change to address the creation and distribution of AI-generated sexual images and videos (deepfakes) without consent. Guernsey Police have dealt with cases involving intimate AI images in recent months. The proposed law would make creating or taking intimate images without consent an offense. | Victims in Guernsey | Image, Video | BBC |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Voice actors are speaking out against AI in gaming, particularly the cloning of their voices without consent. Bodo Henkel and the voice actress of Serena in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Dawnguard have asked fans and modders to stop using their performances in TTS and voice-cloning systems. Aspyr used AI to reproduce a French vocal performance for Lara Croft in their Tomb Raider remake, without informing the original voice actor. | Voice actors, specifically Bodo Henkel and the voice actress of Serena in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Dawnguard | Audio | GamesHub |
| Nov 27, 2025 | AI is attempting to clone Parker and Stone's voices without their explicit consent, which has made Matt Stone hesitant about using AI voice clone technology for 'South Park'. | Matt Stone and Trey Parker | Audio | Cracked.com |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Three 'nudify' websites were used to create AI-generated child sexual exploitation material, including images of Australian school students. The sites received approximately 100,000 visits a month from Australians. The sites allowed users to make images of real people appear naked using AI, and even marketed features like undressing ‘any girl,’ with options for ‘schoolgirl’ image generation and features such as ‘sex mode.’ | Australian school students | Image | Al Jazeera |
| Nov 26, 2025 | A 22-year-old man allegedly used AI to create fake videos and images to manipulate shoppers at a Home Depot. In one incident, he showed a woman a fabricated AI-generated image of her husband kissing another woman. In another, he showed a woman an AI video of her truck being stolen and tried to convince her to leave with him. He recorded their reactions using Meta glasses, possibly for social media content. | Shoppers at Palm Beach Lakes Home Depot | Image, Video | WPTV |
| Nov 26, 2025 | A user created a deepfake video using generative AI that appeared to show leaked gameplay footage of GTA 6. The video went viral, fooling many viewers before the creator admitted it was a hoax designed to demonstrate how easily AI can blur the lines between reality and fake content. | GTA 6 fans and Rockstar Games | Video | IGN Southeast Asia |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Jeremy Clarkson is trademarking his face to combat deepfake scams. AI is being used to replicate his image and voice in ads promoting bogus products like bitcoin and mortgage loans. Ads appeared on X featuring Jeremy and his former The Grand Tour co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond, with all three appearing to promote crypto currency. | Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond | Image, Audio | The Sun |
| Nov 26, 2025 | AI-generated GTA 6 gameplay leak video on X (Twitter) fooled many viewers. Keanu Reeves combats AI deepfakes using his likeness for product sales. Other celebrities including Brian Cox, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Jamie Lee Curtis have also been victimized by unauthorized use of AI deepfakes in advertisements and viral videos. YouTube is updating its policies regarding revenue from inauthentic AI content. The Japanese government is concerned about copyright infringement related to Sora 2 videos. | GTA 6 (Rockstar Games), Keanu Reeves, Brian Cox, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Lee Curtis | Video, Image, Audio | IGN |
| Nov 26, 2025 | An individual, Zap Actu GTA6, posted AI-generated fake gameplay leaks of GTA 6 on X (formerly Twitter). The user admitted the videos were AI-generated and intended to demonstrate how easily people can be fooled by deepfakes. The videos gained millions of views before the poster revealed the hoax. | Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) and Rockstar Games | Video | GameSpot |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Councillor Lisa Robinson is accused of using AI to generate a script during a City of Pickering council meeting. A robotic voice was heard saying, 'Here’s a clear and assertive version: ‘I want to be clear, I was the one who,' immediately after Robinson spoke. This led to online backlash and accusations of using AI tools. | Lisa Robinson | Audio | NOW Toronto |
| Nov 26, 2025 | AI-generated videos on X and Bluesky imitated statements by European politicians, specifically targeting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Videos used Merz in scam schemes, while others showed the phrase "Do you want to ban the Russian language?" supposedly projected onto the wall of Narva Castle attributed to Kaja Kallas. AI-generated clips imitating "mobilized Ukrainians in tears," created with the Sora model targeted Ukrainian refugees. | Friedrich Merz, Kaja Kallas, Ukrainian refugees | Video | Odessa Journal |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s state investment fund (RDIF), shared an AI-generated image on X of Donald Trump with the White House behind him. The image included a ‘Q+’ mark – a reference to QAnon. This was done in response to news reports about Trump's administration and a potential peace plan for the war in Ukraine. | Donald Trump | Image | Metro.co.uk |
| Nov 26, 2025 | A viral post on X presented an AI-created video as a gameplay leak of GTA 6, featuring the main female protagonist, Lucia Caminos. The post was flagged as AI-generated and fake. | Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) fans | Video | Screen Rant |
| Nov 26, 2025 | The Times of Israel published an article supplied by a news agency that included an AI-generated photograph of a US soldier speaking to a reporter in Kiryat Gat while eating a falafel. The photo was taken from an AI-generated TikTok video disseminated by the Kiryat Gat municipality. | The Times of Israel | Image | The Times of Israel |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton posted a clip from a video of Vivek Ramaswamy that Republicans claimed was AI-generated, suggesting year-round school. The original video was posted and then deleted by Ramaswamy, replaced with a version without the proposal. Acton's campaign manager addressed the controversy, while Ramaswamy has not issued an official statement. | Vivek Ramaswamy | Video | primetimer.com |
| Nov 26, 2025 | AI-generated images of actress Keerthy Suresh are being created and circulated online, some of which depict her in suggestive outfits or altered versions of outfits she has actually worn. She has stated that they look very realistic. | Keerthy Suresh | Image | The Indian Express |
| Nov 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video with derogatory content about former CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy circulated online, leading to accusations against TDP activists. The video depicted CM N Chandrababu Naidu and Nara Lokesh walking with supporters, while Jagan, sitting on the roadside, approaches them with a poster requesting "opposition status." | Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy | Video | The Indian Express |
| Nov 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting CM N Chandrababu Naidu and Lokesh walking as Jagan approaches them with a poster asking for "opposition status" was circulated, allegedly by TDP activists. | Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy | Video | The Indian Express |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Deloitte is accused of inserting false citations allegedly derived from fabricated academic papers and attributing studies to real researchers who had not authored them in a report for the Canadian provincial government. Names of researchers who do not exist were also listed. Earlier this year, Deloitte Australia agreed to issue a partial refund for a $290,000 report that similarly drew criticism for alleged AI-generated errors. | Canadian provincial government | Storyboard18 | |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Warner Music Group (WMG), along with other music giants like Sony Music, sued AI music firms Suno and Udio for allegedly profiting from copying existing songs and producing tracks indistinguishable from real artists' work, claiming it constituted 'wholesale theft'. The platforms allow users to create music based on simple descriptions. The legal action was initiated due to concerns that these platforms were using AI to create music that infringes on the copyrights and likenesses of real artists. | Music artists represented by Warner Music Group and Sony Music | Audio | BBC |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Karnataka BJP posted an AI-generated video on social media mocking D K Shivakumar. In the video, Shivakumar is attempting to order the "CM chair" online, but it is out of stock, referencing the power struggle between him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. | D K Shivakumar | Video | Deccan Herald |
| Nov 26, 2025 | An AI-generated post containing derogatory content about YS Jagan Mohan Reddy surfaced online. Nara Lokesh urged TDP cadres to avoid amplifying such content and maintain civility. | YS Jagan Mohan Reddy | The New Indian Express | |
| Nov 26, 2025 | A character named Charlie creates a deepfake of Amy's voice to cause trouble for her both personally and professionally. | Amy (character in 'Doc' TV series) | Audio | TV Insider |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Christopher Kulendran Thomas' installation used generated footage, deepfakes and scraped social-media text to write a counterfactual political history. The work is installed among reflective screens, with new dialogue and footage with every screening cycle. The video relies on an algorithm to scrape social media for new content, producing an unstable and unpredictable reality mirroring our age of misinformation. | Tamil homeland | Video | The Conversation |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Justin Maloy allegedly used AI to generate pornographic images of a child he knew, using actual photographs of the child to digitally manipulate the images. He was arrested and charged with 49 counts of sexual exploitation of children. | Child known to the perpetrator (age 12-19) | Image | FOX 5 Atlanta |
| Nov 25, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using AI to mimic Grand Island Mayor Roger Steele, announcing a fake resolution banning Christmas lights and threatening to suspend electric utility service for non-compliance. The city clarified that the video was false and no such ban existed. | Mayor Roger Steele, City of Grand Island | Video | Nebraska Public Media |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Justin Maloy is charged with using AI to alter real images of a child to create sexually explicit content. He faces 49 counts of child sexual exploitation. | Child | Image | FOX 5 Atlanta |
| Nov 25, 2025 | An image circulated purporting to show Donald Trump kneeling and unbuckling Bill Clinton's trousers in a library. AI detection tools gave conflicting results, but Snopes found inconsistencies in the image and rated it as fake. It was circulated with references to the Jeffrey Epstein case. | Donald Trump and Bill Clinton | Image | Snopes |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Images of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg together in a parking lot were circulated online. These images were identified as AI-generated deepfakes using Google's SynthID watermark detection system. | Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg | Image | mindmatters.ai |
| Nov 25, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting tractor demonstrations with garbled text and inaccurate Canadian flags were spread on social media to promote farmer protests in Canada. An imposter Facebook account based in Pakistan, impersonating Tamara Lich, was used to spread the images. | Canadian government and Tamara Lich (indirectly) | Image | Yahoo |
| Nov 25, 2025 | AI-generated images were spread on social media depicting tractor roll demonstrations in Canada to support farmer protests. The images contained garbled text, warped faces, and incorrect Canadian flags, indicating they were AI-generated. The images were traced back to a Pakistan-based Facebook page impersonating Tamara Lich, a leader of the 2022 'Freedom Convoy'. | Canadian Government, Tamara Lich | Image | Yahoo |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Two men, Kenneth C. Klink and Joshua J. Crockett, were charged with creating AI-generated child pornography. Klink created images depicting himself sexually abusing children, while Crockett is charged with possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material, including an artificially-generated file. | Children | Image | Yahoo |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Criminalizes the impersonation of federal officials with AI deepfakes, citing AI’s use in attempts to successfully mimic White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this year. | Susie Wiles, Marco Rubio | NBC News | |
| Nov 25, 2025 | A male student at the University of Hong Kong created pornographic images of L., B., and H. without their consent using artificial intelligence. He used screenshots from their social media to create AI-generated pornographic images with their faces, which included explicit photos depicting them naked or doing sexual acts. More than 700 photos were discovered on the male student's laptop in around 20 folders of women, which included screenshots from their social media taken without their consent. | L., B., and H., law students at the University of Hong Kong | Image | CBC |
| Nov 25, 2025 | A male student at the University of Hong Kong created over 700 AI-generated pornographic images of female students (L, B, and H) using their photos taken from social media without their consent. The images were discovered on his laptop. The victims went public and the university is reviewing the incident. Hong Kong's privacy watchdog launched a criminal investigation. | L, B, H (University of Hong Kong law students) | Image | CBC |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Several high-profile deepfake cases in India are highlighted, involving political endorsements, harassment, and intimidation using cloned voices and fabricated footage. The article mentions cases involving Ranveer Singh, Aamir Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, and Girija Oak. It also discusses the use of deepfakes for political disinformation and non-consensual purposes. | Ranveer Singh, Aamir Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Girija Oak, Public institutions, Women in India | Video, Image, Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Nov 25, 2025 | The country with the highest year-on-year increase in deepfake attacks (+2100%). Other industries targeted include dating apps/websites/online media for romance scams using AI personas and deepfakes. | Maldives | Infosecurity Magazine | |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Warren Buffett promoting crypto giveaways and investment schemes were posted to social media, specifically TikTok. The videos used AI to mimic Buffett's likeness and voice, but were identifiable by robotic voice quality, lip-sync errors and lighting inconsistencies. | Warren Buffett | Video, Audio | Investopedia |
| Nov 25, 2025 | AI-generated images of Elon Musk and other Big Tech CEOs in mundane environments (apartments, McDonald's parking lots) went viral. Another image showed Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in a compromising position. | Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton | Image | Gizmodo |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Loan sharks threatened borrowers with deepfake pornographic videos of themselves, their mothers and sisters if they did not repay loans with extremely high interest rates. They also threatened to spread rumors using facial images from borrowers' social media profiles. | Borrowers, their family members, and acquaintances | Image, Video | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Deepfake videos featuring personalities as endorsers for illegal gambling, crypto endorsements, viagra or penis enhancement product, and weight-loss supplement. | Vico Sotto, Coney Reyes, Doc Willie Ong, Vice Ganda | Video | Interaksyon |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Claimants submitted deepfake videos as evidence in court. The judge identified discrepancies such as lack of expressiveness, monotone voices, mismatched mouth movements, and looping video feed. A photograph was also identified as being materially altered. | Court system and defendants in the case | Video, Image | Legal Futures |
| Nov 25, 2025 | AI voice scams are impersonating loved ones to steal money, with Americans losing nearly 3 billion dollars last year. | Americans | Audio | news8000.com |
| Nov 24, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using AI to falsely depict Grand Island Mayor Roger Steele announcing a ban on Christmas lights and decorations. The deepfake threatens residents with utility shutoffs for non-compliance. The city addressed the misinformation on social media. | Grand Island Mayor Roger Steele and residents of Grand Island, Nebraska | Video | KSNB |
| Nov 24, 2025 | AI-generated images of a 'homeless man' inserted into photos of the victim's home, accompanied by misleading messages, causing panic and prompting unnecessary 911 calls and police wellness checks. Two minors in Ohio are facing legal consequences for sending the messages that led to a 911 call. | Families of the prank victims | Image | InForum |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Fraudsters are using AI to replicate the voices of loved ones in 'Grandparent Scams', often sharing a sad story to gain sympathy before requesting large sums of money. They are also mimicking voices via phone to claim a loved one is in trouble with law enforcement or the courts and demand immediate payment. | Residents in Central Alberta, particularly teenagers to seniors | Audio | centralalbertaonline.com |
| Nov 24, 2025 | A software developer, Aya Bochman, created a deepfake image of herself with Mads Mikkelsen for her birthday, posting it on X. The image was convincing enough to fool many people online, sparking discussion about the realism and potential misuse of AI-generated content. Aya later admitted it was AI-generated and intended as a joke for her followers. | Mads Mikkelsen | Image | Creative Bloq |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Beauty influencer Arielle Lorre discovered an Instagram ad from Korean skincare brand Skaind featuring an AI-generated replica of her in a fake podcast interview. | Arielle Lorre | Image, Audio | Net Influencer |
| Nov 24, 2025 | AI-generated videos spread online during the government shutdown, depicting Black women arguing with retail employees about their benefits, stealing from grocery stores, or boasting about receiving public assistance while unemployed. Fox News shared these videos as authentic reactions to the Trump administration’s decision to withhold SNAP payments. Fox News later corrected its coverage after online commenters pointed out that the videos were AI-generated. | SNAP recipients, particularly Black women | Video | KFF |
| Nov 24, 2025 | During the 2024 elections, satirical deepfakes featured PM Narendra Modi dancing and Kamal Nath dissing a welfare scheme. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted the misuse of AI to clone voices and produce fake videos impersonating her. In Nov 2023, actress Rashmika Mandanna became a victim of a viral deepfake video that superimposed her face on to compromising content. | Narendra Modi, Kamal Nath, Nirmala Sitharaman, Rashmika Mandanna | Video, Audio | The Times of India |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Filmmaker PJ Accetturo created an AI-generated trailer for a live-action version of *Princess Mononoke*. The trailer received 22 million views on X but also faced intense backlash, including insults and death threats. | PJ Accetturo | Video | Ars Technica |
| Nov 24, 2025 | The WSOP docuseries *No Limit* used AI to fabricate quotes from Alan Keating, using a recreation of his voice. Six quotes were created, with one example being, “I like putting people in tough spots and testing their will.” The production team did not inform Keating about this. | Alan Keating | Audio | Poker.org |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Donald Trump reposted AI-generated content on Truth Social, including images of himself and the six Democrats who urged the military to “refuse unlawful orders”. One clip depicted these lawmakers as prisoners. Trump also reposted a clip from an account called “DeepFakeQuotes” showing an individual arguing that the Democrats’ video was “a direct attack on the chain of command.” Trump reposted four AI-generated images portraying him wearing a U.S. flag as a cape. Other images included text such as, “Time to obliterate the Deep State,”. The images were generated by Spiritual Streetfighter, a QAnon supporter. | Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Jason Crow | Image, Video | Yahoo |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Several students at the middle school in Goffstown used artificial intelligence to generate deepfakes — inappropriate images — of their classmates. | Students at the middle school in Goffstown | Image | UnionLeader.com |
| Nov 23, 2025 | An AI-generated tribute song called “We Are Charlie Kirk” honoring Charlie Kirk has gone viral. The song was created by an anonymous creator called Spalexma. Multiple AI-generated songs about Charlie have gone viral in recent months. | Charlie Kirk | Audio | Just Jared |
| Nov 23, 2025 | Two voice actors are suing ElevenLabs, claiming their voices were cloned without permission, used to train a voice model, and distributed under the trade names “Adam” and “Bella.” | voice actors Adam and Bella | Audio | CTech |
| Nov 22, 2025 | A 21-year-old man was fined 15 million KRW and sentenced to 40 hours in a sexual violence treatment program for creating and distributing sexually explicit deepfake images of NewJeans members (specifically Haerin, Hanni, and Minji) using AI and deepfake technology. He distributed these images on a Telegram channel with approximately 200 members. | NewJeans (Haerin, Hanni, and Minji) | Image | The Times of India |
| Nov 22, 2025 | Megan Thee Stallion is suing blogger Milagro Cooper for spreading a false, AI-generated pornographic video. Megan claims the video harmed her reputation and career, causing emotional distress and loss of business opportunities (approximately $4 million). | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | CBS News |
| Nov 22, 2025 | Documents detailing how to access AI deepfake technology that generates nude images were posted on the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD) website. The programs described in the documents aim to take photos of real people and digitally alter them to look nude. Similar documents were found hosted on governmental websites across the country and the globe. | Individuals whose images are used to create nude deepfakes | Image | KBAK |
| Nov 22, 2025 | Article discusses general deepfake concerns, but references a deepfake of a presidential candidate in Ireland dropping out of the race, fake AI-created content of flames coming from a high school and hackers using deepfakes of top executives to trick people into sharing sensitive information or sending money. | Presidential candidate in Ireland, families in local community, top executives | Video | WPXI |
| Nov 21, 2025 | The article discusses the increasing use of deepfakes in enterprise fraud, particularly in contact centers and remote hiring processes. It mentions a 756% year-over-year increase in deepfake or replayed voices in enterprise phone calls and the use of deepfakes by North Korean IT workers to obscure their identity when applying for remote jobs. The article highlights the difficulty humans have in detecting AI-generated content and stresses the need for a team defense approach to combat deepfake fraud. | Enterprises, specifically HR and Finance departments | Audio, Video | Pindrop |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Megan Thee Stallion is the victim of a deepfake pornographic video that was allegedly promoted by blogger Milagro Gramz on social media. Gramz is accused of encouraging her followers to view the video and spreading misinformation about Megan's criminal trial with Tory Lanez. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | KIMA |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Rep. Mike Collins' campaign released a deepfake video showing Sen. Jon Ossoff mocking farmers and defending a government shutdown. The video was created using artificial intelligence and features computer-generated audio of Ossoff claiming to support the shutdown and that he'd "only seen a farm on Instagram." | Senator Jon Ossoff | Audio, Video | CBS News |
| Nov 21, 2025 | AI-generated ads using Taylor Swift's likeness lured fans with a fake cookware giveaway. The goal was to attract users to counterfeit websites to steal personal and payment information. | Taylor Swift fans | Image | CBS News |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Neo-Nazi networks are using AI voice-cloning tools, specifically ElevenLabs, to generate English-language versions of Adolf Hitler's speeches. These deepfake videos are being distributed on platforms like TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube. The videos combine the AI-generated audio with carefully chosen visuals and soundtracks to subtly normalize extremist ideology. They avoid direct Nazi iconography to evade content moderation systems. The goal is historical revisionism, emotional manipulation, and social reinforcement of extremist beliefs. | General Public, with a focus on younger audiences | Audio, Video | Global Network on Extremism and Technology |
| Nov 21, 2025 | A viral photo of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket circulated online in March 2023. It was later revealed to be a deepfake created using generative AI. | Pope Francis | Image | Bloomberg Law News |
| Nov 21, 2025 | A video depicting a fake engagement announcement between Kelce and Swift circulated on social media. Another video showed them supposedly handing out gifts at a care center but was identified as AI due to disjointed movements and later removed from Facebook. The videos appeared on pages like "Football Pulse" on Facebook and aimed to increase engagement. | Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift | Video | KMBC |
| Nov 21, 2025 | A deepfake pornographic video of Megan Thee Stallion was created and allegedly promoted online by blogger Milagro Gramz, causing her severe emotional distress. Gramz allegedly amplified the reach of the fake video online and engaged in a coordinated campaign with musician Tory Lanez to harass and discredit her. | Megan Thee Stallion | Video | Rolling Stone |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Google's Nano Banana Pro, when asked to generate a summery Christmas card featuring the author, created deepfaked images where the author's clones were topless. | The author of the article | Image | The Verge |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Generative AI was used to create nude deepfake images of 44 girls at a high school in Iowa from photos they posted on social media. Four male classmates were charged as juveniles. The deepfakes were shared among peers. | 44 female high school students in Iowa | Image | MissingKids.org |
| Nov 20, 2025 | An AI-generated song titled 'We Are Charlie Kirk' went viral on TikTok and topped Spotify's viral songs chart. The song, attributed to an AI-generated act named Spalexma, was used in thousands of TikTok videos, often mocked for its AI vocals. A video depicted an AI-generated Vice President JD Vance singing the song memorializing Kirk. | Charlie Kirk | Audio, Video | Forbes |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Ofcom fined Itai Tech Ltd £55,000 for failing to implement age verification measures on its "nudification" site, which uses AI to edit images to seemingly remove clothing. The site is now inaccessible from UK IP addresses. This is in response to the Online Safety Act requiring age checks. | Individuals whose images are used to create deepfake nudes | Image | BBC |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Secret Desires, an erotic chatbot and AI image generator, left nearly two million images and videos exposed. Some of the photos and videos were taken from real influencers, public figures, and non-famous women and girls. Some of the exposed media included user-generated AI images, such as those created with a now-defunct "faceswap" feature. Some of the file names included terms like "17-year-old." | Real influencers, public figures, and non-famous women and girls | Image, Video | Mashable |
| Nov 19, 2025 | AI-generated voice cloning is used to commit fraud against US consumers via contact centers. By cloning voices and using breached personal data, fraudsters bypass security measures, causing financial losses to consumers. | US consumers and contact centers | Audio | TechRadar |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Steve Harvey's team constantly fights to remove dozens of unauthorized voice clones being used to create deepfake scams, virtual kidnapping schemes and reputation damage. | Steve Harvey | Audio | radioworld.com |
| Nov 18, 2025 | A video deepfake was submitted as evidence in the case Mendones v. Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The deepfake video purported to show a real witness, but the judge determined it was AI-generated. The plaintiffs then sought reconsideration, arguing the judge failed to prove it was AI-generated. The judge dismissed the case due to the use of AI-generated material masquerading as real evidence. | Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. | Video | NBC News |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Morgan Freeman is taking legal action against unauthorized AI-generated imitations of his voice. AI talent studio Xicoia and production company Particle6 are developing digital characters which is cause for concern. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | San Francisco Chronicle |
| Nov 18, 2025 | A deepfake video of Kamala Harris was reposted on X a few months before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In the video, she called herself a diversity hire who doesn’t know “the first thing about running the country.” | Kamala Harris | Video | Scientific American |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Customers are using AI voice agents to automate interactions with call centers, negotiating bills and attempting to bypass security protocols. While the AI agent in the described experiment failed to get a lower rate, experts suggest it is a rising trend. | Call centers/customer service representatives | Audio | Business Insider |
| Nov 17, 2025 | A judge in Alameda County, California, threw out a civil case and recommended sanctions for the plaintiffs after determining that a videotaped witness testimony was a deepfake. The case was among the first known cases in which a deepfake was deliberately used in the courtroom. | Legal system and civil case plaintiffs | Video | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Explicit deepfake images of a 13-year-old girl were allegedly shared. The father stated the images looked real and were disturbing. | 13-year-old daughter | Image | CBS News |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Eighth-grade students used an AI app to create deepfake naked photos and videos of their classmates and shared them with others. | Middle school girls in Goffstown, NH | Image, Video | Boston 25 News |
| Nov 14, 2025 | A man took photos of children at a soccer game and used AI to create sexually explicit images of them. Current Maine law was insufficient to prosecute. | Children in Maine | Image | Maine.gov |
| Nov 14, 2025 | A middle school student used AI to create fake nude photos of a female student and shared them. The incident led to an altercation, expulsion, and a police investigation that uncovered AI-generated images of eight students and two adults. One juvenile is facing charges for unlawful dissemination of AI-generated images. | Eight students and two adults from Lafourche Parish, including a middle school girl from Sixth Ward Middle School. | Image | WDSU |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Deepfake nude images of a 13-year-old girl and other female middle school students were allegedly circulated among male students. One male student was charged with 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence. The victim was initially expelled from school after confronting one of the boys, but later allowed to return on probation. | 13-year-old daughter and other girls at a Louisiana middle school | Image | CBS News |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Morgan Freeman is taking legal action against unauthorized AI uses of his voice. He expressed his frustration with AI mimicking his voice without permission, considering it a form of theft since he gets paid for such work. He also criticized the creation of AI actors, seeing them as a threat to real actors' jobs. He has previously addressed AI videos using his voice on TikTok. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | Fox News |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Morgan Freeman is taking legal action against the unauthorized AI-generated cloning of his voice used in online videos, advertisements, and AI applications. He views it as unethical, illegal, and a form of theft since he is paid for his voice work. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | WGCI-FM |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Morgan Freeman is unhappy that AI is cloning his voice. His lawyers are addressing instances of voice mimicry, which he views as a form of robbery. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | AV Club |
| Nov 13, 2025 | A finance worker in Hong Kong was defrauded of $25 million after a video conference featuring deepfake versions of his CFO and coworkers. | Finance worker in Hong Kong | Video | NBC Bay Area |
| Nov 13, 2025 | AI-generated nude photos of the victim were created and disseminated by other students, leading to bullying and ultimately, the victim being expelled for retaliating against one of the perpetrators. The perpetrator was charged with 10 counts of disseminating explicit images of another person created by artificial intelligence. | Eighth grade girl at Sixth Ward Middle School in Thibodaux, Louisiana | Image | NOLA.com |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Unauthorized AI voice mimicking Morgan Freeman without his permission. Freeman states that his lawyers have been addressing multiple instances of AI using his voice without his knowledge. He used the hashtags 'scam' and 'IdentityProtection' to address the issue. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Nov 13, 2025 | A 13-year-old was bullied at school because a fake pornographic image was created of her using deepfake technology. The image led to her expulsion after she reacted physically to the bullying. Another child was arrested for creating and disseminating the deepfake. | 13-year-old Lafourche Parish student | Image | WAFB |
| Nov 12, 2025 | A digital consultant used ElevenLabs software to mimic then-President Joe Biden's voice in a robocall message sent to thousands of New Hampshire voters. | Joe Biden | Audio | The Killeen Daily Herald |
| Nov 12, 2025 | A 13-year-old girl was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her. The image was circulated throughout the school, and the girl was expelled after hitting the boy she accused of creating it. One student was charged with ten counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence in September. | 13-year-old girl | Image | WSAW |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Videos appearing to feature Warren Buffett's image and voice surfaced online, prompting his company to issue a warning that the videos were not authentic and could mislead viewers. | Warren Buffett | Video | KCCI |
| Nov 11, 2025 | AI-generated nude photos of a 13-year-old girl led to her expulsion from school, which was later amended. The family is planning a lawsuit. | 13-year-old girl | Image | wwltv.com |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Fraudsters are using generative AI to produce fake documentation such as pay slips, tax forms, receipts, invoices and bank statements which are then submitted to third parties for reimbursement or financial gain. Some clever fraudsters are also pairing fake receipts with AI‑generated voice or video deepfakes to impersonate senior staff and authorise false claims. | Firms, Companies | Image, Audio, Video | ICAEW |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen urges OpenAI to pull video app Sora over privacy, misinformation concerns, realistic deepfakes, and non-consensual images. AI-generated videos made using Sora have flooded social media. OpenAI has cracked down on AI creations of public figures doing outlandish things. Women are seeing themselves being harassed online with fetishized niche content. Sora-made videos of women being strangled. | Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Mister Rogers, everyday users, women | Video | CBC |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Thieves doctored a social media video post put out by "General Hospital" star Steve Burton, claiming he lost property in the California wildfires, leading one woman to lose $80,000. | Woman who lost $80,000 | Video | WSYX |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Patty Greiner lost $15,000 after receiving a text claiming her Amazon account was hacked and then contacted by individuals posing as IRS agents using cloned voices. A woman lost $80,000 due to a doctored social media video post put out by "General Hospital" star Steve Burton. | Patty Greiner, woman who lost $80,000 | Audio, Video | WSYX |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A 13-year-old student shared AI-generated fake nude photos of a female student. The victim was expelled from school after hitting the accused student. Legal action is being considered against the creator and sharer of the images, as well as the school board for the expulsion. | Female student in Lafourche Parish | Image | Audacy |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A fake autobiography titled “Beyond Borders” was created and offered for sale online. The book was written in the first person, recounting CZ's immigration experience, journey to founding Binance, and mental struggles. CZ has warned that this book is fake and created using AI. | Changpeng Zhao (CZ) | CryptoRank | |
| Nov 11, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes was shared on Facebook by Uxbridge Select Board Chair Brian Butler. The video featured animals with the faces of Democratic Party politicians singing and dancing to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' | Barack Obama and Michelle Obama | Video | MassLive.com |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A defense attorney submitted court filings containing fabricated legal citations and AI-generated content produced by ChatGPT. The AI hallucinated inaccurate trial transcript quotes. This occurred in two separate counties. | Legal System (Courts, Prosecutors) | Cleveland.com | |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Deepfake videos generated on OpenAI's Sora 2 app include nonconsensual content, harassment of women, and fake celebrity videos. The app allows users to create AI videos from text prompts, raising concerns about the proliferation of nonconsensual images and realistic deepfakes. OpenAI has responded to complaints from family estates, actors' unions, and entertainment interests, but critics argue that everyday users are still vulnerable to the technology's harms. There have been instances of AI-generated videos of women being strangled. OpenAI is also setting guardrails in place to prevent well-known characters from being generated without the consent of the people who own the copyrights. | Michael Jackson, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers, everyday users, women, Bryan Cranston, Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco and Square Enix | Video | Los Angeles Times |
| Nov 11, 2025 | The article discusses deepfake videos generated by OpenAI's Sora 2 app, including examples such as Queen Elizabeth II rapping, fake doorbell camera footage with uncanny scenarios, and non-consensual content harassing women. It mentions AI creations of public figures doing outlandish things. The Public Citizen group has raised concerns about the potential threat to democracy and people's privacy. | Various individuals and groups including women, celebrities, Michael Jackson, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mister Rogers, Bryan Cranston, and Japanese manga characters | Video, Image | Los Angeles Times |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Han Hye-jin's YouTube account was hacked and used to stream a deepfake video of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse promoting a crypto scam. The hackers renamed the channel and disabled live chat and comments. | Han Hye-jin's YouTube channel | Video | dlnews.com |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A middle school student was arrested for allegedly sharing AI-generated nude images of female classmates on a school bus. The incident led to a physical altercation and expulsion of one of the victims before the perpetrator was arrested. | Female classmates at Sixth Ward Middle School | Image | KGW |
| Nov 11, 2025 | An AI-generated artist named Breaking Rust hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart with a track called Walk My Walk. The artist was created sometime around mid-October. The Instagram profile features AI-generated music videos showing a rugged, denim-wearing country crooner, but it doesn't mention that the entire thing was made by machine learning software. AI R&B singer Xania Monet hit number one earlier this month. | Music Industry, Human Artists | Audio, Video | KnowTechie |
| Nov 11, 2025 | An AI-cloned voice of the Italian Defense Minister requested a €1M ransom from prominent business leaders, convincing some to pay. | Prominent business leaders in Italy | Audio | Tech Xplore |
| Nov 11, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely depicting Bellaire High School on fire circulated on social media, causing panic and prompting emergency response. The image led to concerned calls from parents and confusion among students and staff. | Bellaire High School | Image | PetaPixel |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Russian operatives built fake news outlets filled with AI-generated articles and deepfake videos that were nearly indistinguishable from legitimate reporting to influence the European election. | European public opinion | Video, Audio | r/Spikerz_Security |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Getty Images brought a claim against Stability AI, alleging that Stability AI had used its images to train its AI model without permission. Getty Images claimed AI-generated image outputs unlawfully reproduced its watermarks. The Court held that Getty Images succeeded in relation to older versions only (Stable Diffusion v1.x, v.1.2 and v2.1). | Getty Images | Image | Fox Williams |
| Nov 11, 2025 | AI-generated videos are spreading misinformation and glamorizing Nazis, showing German POWs being treated as guests. Fake Holocaust images circulated on Facebook. OpenAI had to step in after users of its AI-app Sora made fake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. spewing racist rhetoric. | Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance, Martin Luther King Jr. | Video, Image | Toronto Star |
| Nov 11, 2025 | AI-generated YouTube videos are spreading a revisionist view of history by portraying German POWs in America as being treated like guests and friends, and even showing Nazi flags flying at American POW camps. These videos are appearing prominently in YouTube searches, potentially misleading viewers about the reality of the era. There were also fake Holocaust images being circulated on Facebook. OpenAI also had to step in after users of its AI-app Sora made fake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. spewing racist rhetoric, drawing the disgust of his estate. | Historical understanding and remembrance of WWII, specifically the portrayal of Nazi Germany and German POWs in America. | Video, Image | Toronto Star |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Morgan Freeman is upset about AI being used to clone his voice without permission or compensation. He views this as theft of his work and is pursuing legal action against those impersonating him with AI. The specific instances of AI impersonation are not detailed, but the article states his lawyers are pursuing cases. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | mandatory.com |
| Nov 11, 2025 | OpenAI's Sora video app allowed users to create videos of people, including deceased celebrities, doing improbable things. The King family spoke out against the use of Martin Luther King Jr.'s image, leading OpenAI to pause this ability. The author encountered fetish content being made using their likeness and those of other women on the app. | Martin Luther King Jr., women on the app | Video | Business Insider |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A fake AI-generated image depicted an older, frail version of Jackie Chan in a hospital bed, accompanied by fake birth and death years, leading to rumors of his death. | Jackie Chan | Image | The Indian Express |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Patty Greiner was scammed out of $15,000 by impersonators claiming to be from Amazon, the IRS, and federal law enforcement who used voice cloning. A woman lost $80,000 after thieves doctored a social media video post by "General Hospital" star Steve Burton. | Patty Greiner, Woman who lost $80,000 | Audio, Video | KATV |
| Nov 11, 2025 | ElevenLabs settled a lawsuit from two actors, Karissa Vacker and Mark Boyett, who accused the company of misappropriating their voices. | Karissa Vacker, Mark Boyett | Audio | Deadline |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A female detective with the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office is alleging a decade of workplace discrimination, retaliation and hostility, including the circulation among co-workers of a sexual AI-generated video of her. The video of Detective Samantha Robinson was allegedly created by fellow Detective Derek Jones while on duty and depicted sexual contact between Robinson and Jones’ father, according to a tort claim filed in Whatcom County on Oct. 23. | Detective Samantha Robinson | Video | Cascadia Daily News |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A student from Sixth Ward Middle School in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, was arrested for allegedly sharing AI-generated nude images of his classmates. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office began investigating in August after reports that a group of boys was circulating the images of female students on a school bus, leading to a confrontation. In September, one boy was arrested and charged with 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of AI-generated images. One victim was expelled after a physical altercation. | Female classmates at Sixth Ward Middle School | Image | wwltv.com |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A man was penalized $343,500 for making and posting 12 non-consensual deepfakes of six Australian women. | Six Australian women | Video | Information Age | ACS |
| Nov 11, 2025 | An AI-generated photo depicting a fake fire at Bellaire High School circulated on social media, causing panic among students and parents. The photo prompted numerous calls to the police and school district. The incident coincided with a fire alarm and a reported odor in the school, further contributing to the confusion. | Bellaire High School | Image | ABC13 Houston |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A male middle school student created a fake nude image of a female classmate using AI, superimposed her head onto a naked body, and shared it with others at school and on a bus. This led to an altercation, and the victim was allegedly expelled after reporting the incident and hitting the boy. The male student faces ten counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by AI. State Rep. Bryan Fontenot intends to create legislation named after the victim. | Female Middle School Student | Image | WDSU |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Fake AI-generated videos showing aggressive bears are rapidly spreading on TikTok, YouTube, and other social media platforms. One AI-generated video shows a horde of bears destroying solar panels at a facility, while another depicts a bear snatching a pet dog. The videos are misleading people when mixed among real videos. | General Public in Japan | Video | Anadolu Ajansı |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A middle school student generated and disseminated AI-generated nude photos of female classmates, leading to an investigation and charges for unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence. | Female middle school students in Lafourche Parish | Image | Audacy |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A male student created and shared AI-generated nude photos of female students, leading to an altercation and legal charges. The suspect was charged with 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence. One of the victims was initially expelled for fighting the suspect but will not face criminal charges. | Female students at Sixth Ward Middle School | Image | fox8live.com |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Male students shared digitally altered, explicit photos of female classmates created using artificial intelligence. The images were circulated among students on a school bus and on campus, leading to an altercation. A male student was charged with ten counts of Unlawful Dissemination of Images Created by Artificial Intelligence. | Female classmates at Sixth Ward Middle School | Image | KQKI News |
| Nov 10, 2025 | AI companies are replicating Morgan Freeman's voice without consent, leading to legal action. He criticizes the use of AI-generated actors in Hollywood. | Morgan Freeman | Audio | The Express Tribune |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A middle school student was expelled after confronting a classmate who shared an AI-generated nude image of her. The student reported the image to school officials before the confrontation. A juvenile has been charged, and the case is under investigation. Legislation is being drafted to address the creation and distribution of AI-generated sexually explicit images. | Eighth grade student at Sixth Ward Middle School | Image | KPEL 96.5 |
| Nov 10, 2025 | AI is allegedly being used to mimic K. Michelle's voice to create music, potentially linked to the AI artist Xania Monet. | K. Michelle | Audio | afrotech.com |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A YouTuber used an AI-generated voice clone of a professional voice actor without consent in commercial videos. The court ruled that using AI-generated voice clones without permission violates personality rights and ordered the YouTuber to pay damages. | A professional German voice actor | Audio | PPC Land |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A deepfake video was created of Lisa Townsend, Surrey's PCC, promoting a financial scheme to warn people about fraud. The deepfake video encourages users to register to "secure money in their bank accounts." The real Lisa Townsend then clarifies that the video was created using AI as part of the Question Everything campaign to highlight the dangers of AI-generated fraud. Only three seconds of audio is required to clone a person's voice to be manipulated and say whatever a criminal wants. | Lisa Townsend, Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner | Video | Yahoo News New Zealand |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A deepfake video of Lisa Townsend was created to promote a financial scheme. The video was part of a campaign to warn people about AI-generated fraud. | Lisa Townsend, Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner | Video | BBC |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A company director was tricked into wiring almost half a million dollars after a Zoom meeting where all executives—including the CFO—were AI-generated. Criminals used synthetic voices to convince Qantas call-center staff to release internal credentials, exposing the data of 6 million customers. | Company director in Singapore and Qantas call-center staff in Australia | Video, Audio | Newsweek |
| Nov 10, 2025 | A TikToker used AI-generated images of a homeless person in their house to prank their parents. The prank included images of the homeless person at the door, on the couch, trying on clothes, and leaving with a shirt. The parents responded with frustration and fear, including voice messages telling the son to call the police. | Parents of the TikToker | Image, Audio | TwistedSifter |
| Nov 10, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Ukrainian soldiers crying and claiming to be unwillingly drafted were spread on social media. The videos used the face of a Russian streamer, Vladimir Yuryevich Ivanov, and also featured the face of Aleksei Gubanov, a critic of Vladimir Putin, without their consent. | Ukrainian soldiers, Aleksei Gubanov | Video | DW |
| Nov 10, 2025 | The author describes seeing a deepfake video of a deceased friend announcing a lottery win, which was a scam to lure the author to a fraudulent site. The author also saw deepfakes of Al Roker endorsing hypertension medication, and similar deepfakes of Taylor Swift, Martin Sheen, and Mark Cuban. | Al Roker, Taylor Swift, Martin Sheen, Mark Cuban, friend of the author | Video | Forbes |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Morphed pictures of judges are being created using AI. | Judges of the Supreme Court of India | Image | Storyboard18 |
| Nov 09, 2025 | AI voice cloning used to mimic K. Michelle's vocal style in AI-generated music by Xania Monet, created using Suno AI platform. K. Michelle expressed frustration over the unauthorized use of her vocal style, potentially violating right-of-publicity laws. Fans and legal experts note the uncanny resemblance to K. Michelle's voice and are pushing for legal and ethical boundaries for AI in music. | K. Michelle | Audio | EURweb |
| Nov 09, 2025 | A woman in Florida was tricked into giving away $15,000 after receiving what she thought was a cry for help from her daughter, but it was a completely AI-generated voice on the phone. | Woman in Florida | Audio | El Estoque |
| Nov 08, 2025 | California Governor Gavin Newsom's press office used an AI-generated image portraying Donald Trump as Marie Antoinette to criticize his Mar-a-Lago trip during a government shutdown and SNAP food benefit concerns. The image was captioned "GOOD NIGHT, PEASANTS!" | Donald Trump | Image | the-independent.com |
| Nov 08, 2025 | A deepfake video of WA Premier Roger Cook endorsing an investment scam appeared as a pop-up advertisement on YouTube. The video used his likeness and voice to encourage people to sign up for a 'low investment, high return, real results' opportunity. | Roger Cook, Premier of Western Australia | Video | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Nov 08, 2025 | A deepfake AI video of Western Australia Premier Roger Cook was used in a YouTube advertisement to promote a fraudulent investment scheme. The deepfake video featured Cook endorsing the scheme and encouraging viewers to invest. | Roger Cook, Premier of Western Australia | Video, Audio | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Nov 06, 2025 | The article describes deepfakes and provides advice on how to spot them. It mentions some incidents: A UK energy firm CEO was tricked into transferring money after receiving a call from a deepfake of his boss's voice. Scammers used a deepfake of Wiz CEO's voice to leave voicemails for employees. Fabricated news broadcasts emerged during the 2024 French legislative elections. Altered images and videos falsely portraying politicians spread during Argentina's 2023 primary elections. AI-generated videos depicted celebrities endorsing local political parties in South Africa's 2024 elections. | UK energy firm CEO, Wiz CEO, Political figures and parties in France, Argentina and South Africa. | Audio, Video | Forbes |
| Nov 06, 2025 | Meta AI's Vibes feed contains AI-generated videos featuring Donald Trump, often of a jokey nature, described as 'boomerslop.' These are humorous memes rather than realistic deepfakes, but the presence of divisive Trump videos is noticeable. | Donald Trump | Video | Business Insider |
| Nov 06, 2025 | Brooke Schinault used an AI-generated image to falsely report a home invasion and sexual battery to the St. Petersburg Police Department on October 7th. The image was found in a deleted folder on her device. She is now facing two counts of false reporting of a crime. | St. Petersburg Police Department | Image | FOX 13 Tampa Bay |
| Nov 05, 2025 | Newsmax aired an AI-generated video of a woman raging at a supermarket cashier, threatening to walk out with her groceries without paying because her food stamps were cut. The video was used in a segment called 'The Cost of Free Stuff' to criticize SNAP beneficiaries. | SNAP beneficiaries/poor people | Video | Futurism |
| Nov 05, 2025 | Marie Watson, a Danish video game live-streamer, had a holiday snap from her Instagram account digitally altered to remove her clothing, making her appear naked. The deepfake image was sent to her via an unknown Instagram account. | Marie Watson | Image | Yahoo Finance |
| Nov 04, 2025 | AI-generated images of Hurricane Melissa, including one showing birds of unrealistic scale and another depicting a destroyed Jamaican hospital (identified with SynthID stamp), spread across social media, potentially deterring individuals from seeking necessary assistance. | People affected by Hurricane Melissa (potential victims deterred from seeking help) | Image | Futurism |
| Nov 04, 2025 | Adam Asad Kelton, 25, of Gaston, SC, was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. He was one of the first people charged under a new state statute making possessing such material a felony. | Children (creation of depictions) | Image | WIS News 10 |
| Nov 03, 2025 | AI-generated videos posted on TikTok showed players from Ansonia and Naugatuck high school football teams criticizing teammates and coaches. The videos used AI to clone faces and voices, and were posted under anonymous accounts. Although the videos were relatively innocuous, they caused concern about the potential for future deepfakes to be used to spread misinformation or cause harm. | Ansonia and Naugatuck high school football teams | Video | ctinsider.com |
| Nov 03, 2025 | Fox News ran a story using AI-generated videos of people supposedly complaining about SNAP cuts. The videos were presented as real, fueling anger against SNAP. Fox News later updated the story with a correction acknowledging the videos were likely AI-generated. | SNAP beneficiaries | Video | Futurism |
| Nov 03, 2025 | Joel Johnson, a senior citizen in Coachella Valley, received a phone call from a voice impersonating his son, claiming to have broken his nose and caused an accident. The caller, suspected to be using AI voice cloning, requested $10,000 for bail money. Johnson's wife contacted their son and confirmed that it was a scam. | Joel Johnson | Audio | KESQ |
| Nov 03, 2025 | Scammers used AI to clone the voice of the couple's great grandson, Cameron, and pretended he was in jail and needed bail money. They called the couple and successfully extracted more than $11,000. | Frank and Alice Boren | Audio | WBRC 6 News |
| Oct 28, 2025 | In 2024, an AI deepfake video call was used to steal $25 million from the UK engineering firm Arup. An employee received an urgent video call from who they thought was their boss and other colleagues authorizing several financial transactions totaling several million dollars. The video call was generated by AI. | Arup | Video | Forbes |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated obscene photos of the victim's sisters were used for blackmail, leading to the victim's suicide. | Sisters of the victim | Image | The CSR Journal |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos of members of the royal family have gone viral on TikTok and other social media. The fake clips include videos of the late Queen Elizabeth rapping, shoplifting and playing video games with Princess Diana. The voices are also AI-generated to sound like the late royals' dialect. There have also been deepfakes of Harry, Meghan, Prince William, Kate Middleton, King Charles and more. | Royal Family (Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Harry, Meghan, Prince William, Kate Middleton, King Charles) | Video, Audio | People.com |
| Oct 27, 2025 | NBC Chicago aired a fake AI-generated racing video from a known satirical account, Weaber Valley Speedway, believing it to be real news. The video included a nonsensical caption and was part of a larger set of satirical sites. NBC Chicago has been contacted for comment. | NBC Chicago | Video | Jalopnik |
| Oct 27, 2025 | A woman was shown a video of her truck being stolen, allegedly an AI-generated deepfake used in a scam. | Woman in West Palm Beach | Video | 97.9 WRMF |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Multiple instances of deepfake satellite imagery used to exaggerate military successes or depict fabricated events. Examples include exaggerated reports of Ukraine's strike on Russian bombers, a fake image of a destroyed Israeli F-35 following US/Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, and inflated damage claims by both Indian and Pakistani users during a conflict. A fake image depicting a fire near the Pentagon also caused a stock market dip. | Ukraine, Russia, US, Israel, Iran, India, Pakistan, Pentagon (Stock Market) | Image, Video | Time Magazine |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Donald Trump claimed that the voice of Ronald Reagan in an anti-tariff ad by the Ontario government was AI-generated. | Donald Trump | Audio | Global News |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Users who voluntarily provided their images for the app could see themselves in videos featuring racial remarks or used as material for fetish accounts. | Users who voluntarily provided their images for the app | Video | Букви |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Real estate agents are using AI-generated images in property listings to make houses appear more appealing than they are. This includes cleaning up walls, improving paint, and enhancing windows in images. AI is also used to virtually stage homes, create nonsensical or misleading features, and distort the perception of size. This results in properties looking significantly better in the AI images than in reality. One example is a listing in Detroit where the AI image vastly differed from the actual house. Another example is a New York City apartment listing where the bedroom appeared far larger than it was due to AI manipulation. | House hunters / Potential Homebuyers | Image | PetaPixel |
| Oct 27, 2025 | The article mentions several incidents: A phishing scam impersonating the RingCentral CEO using deepfake technology investigated in May 2023; concerns regarding deepfake incidents at Central Virginia Community College in 2021; and increased use of deepfakes on online dating platforms in 2023. It also highlights general concerns and rising unease in Amherst County regarding the increasing sophistication and proliferation of deepfakes. | RingCentral CEO, Central Virginia Community College, Online Dating platform users | Lynchburg News and Advance | |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Donald Trump reshared an AI-generated video depicting himself flying a plane and dropping feces on protestors at a No Kings rally. Harry Sisson, a Democratic influencer, was identified in the video as one of the rally attendees. | Harry Sisson | Video | WBUR |
| Oct 27, 2025 | The White House reposted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Halo's Master Chief. The image included an altered US flag with only 40 stars. This was in response to GameStop’s viral “end of console wars” post. The post was met with mockery from both Democrats and Republicans, particularly the gaming community. | Donald Trump/White House | Image | Times of India |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated pornographic videos and morphed images of Chiranjeevi are being created and circulated on several websites, falsely depicting him in explicit sexual acts. Hyderabad Cybercrime Police have registered a case and are investigating to identify the creators, publishers, and websites involved. | Chiranjeevi | Video, Image | The Hindu |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Deepfake videos depicting Chiranjeevi with a Bollywood actress were uploaded to adult sites, causing damage to his reputation, emotional distress to his family, and violation of his privacy. | Chiranjeevi | Video | Deccan Herald |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated images and deepfake videos of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev were used in fraudulent YouTube ads. These ads included false claims of his arrest and endorsements of trading platforms, leading to financial fraud where a woman lost Rs 3.75 crore. | Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | Image, Video | The Logical Indian |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Telugu actor Chiranjeevi filed a complaint about AI-generated deepfake videos containing obscene content using his name and image. The videos falsely depict him in obscene acts and are causing severe and irreparable harm to his reputation. A case was registered under relevant sections of the IT Act, BNS and Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 at Cyber Crime Police Station on October 25, and further investigation is underway. | Chiranjeevi | Video | The Economic Times |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Workers are using AI to generate fake expense receipts, leading to financial losses for employers. AppZen noted these AI generated expenses now account for 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September 2025. Ramp flagged over $1 million worth of fraudulent invoices in the last 90 days. | Employers | Image | TechRadar |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated objectionable videos of Chiranjeevi with a Bollywood actress surfaced on adult websites. The fake clips have been uploaded to at least three adult websites and are allegedly being used to earn money and portray him in vulgar and obscene ways. The doctored videos have harmed his reputation and caused emotional pain to his family, violating his right to privacy and dignity. Chiranjeevi submitted web links to the fake videos and requested immediate action to remove the content and identify those responsible. | Chiranjeevi | Video | Mint |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated objectionable videos of Chiranjeevi surfaced on adult websites, showing him with a Bollywood actress in vulgar and obscene ways. The videos are being used to earn money and have harmed his reputation, causing emotional pain to his family and violating his right to privacy and dignity. Chiranjeevi alleges that the videos were created using advanced AI tools and shared across multiple websites by an organised cybercrime network. | Chiranjeevi | Video | Mint |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI deepfake videos generated by platforms like OpenAI's Sora depict deceased figures in offensive scenarios. Families have appealed to AI firms to prevent using likenesses. Data centers used to generate these videos consume significant electricity and water, raising environmental concerns. | Deceased celebrities and historical figures, specifically Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Video | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos falsely depict Chiranjeevi in obscene contexts. He has filed a complaint with the Hyderabad cybercrime police requesting the immediate takedown of the content and an investigation. The videos are damaging his reputation. | Chiranjeevi | Video | Outlook India |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Tiffany Salmond, an NRL presenter, was targeted with sexually explicit deepfake images created from her Instagram photos. The images depicted her performing explicit acts and were shared online. The most recent deepfake was shared three weeks ago. | Tiffany Salmond | Image | The Economic Times |
| Oct 27, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting Bangladeshi women's cricket players wearing burqas was circulated online after their defeat to New Zealand in the Women's World Cup. The image, which originated after the match on October 10, 2025, was identified as AI-generated due to the presence of the Gemini AI logo and visual inconsistencies. An AFP journalist covering the event confirmed that no players wore burqas during the match. | Bangladeshi women's cricket team | Image | Yahoo News Malaysia |
| Oct 27, 2025 | AI-generated and morphed pornographic videos misusing his name and image. Videos falsely depicting him in obscene acts with a person identified as ‘Meenakshi’ and others. | Chiranjeevi | Video, Image | Mathrubhumi English |
| Oct 27, 2025 | OpenAI's Sora 2 model has been used to generate deepfake videos of famous people and copyrighted characters. Users who shared likenesses have had them used to create videos of them shouting racial slurs. A viral AI-generated video on TikTok shows CCTV footage of a man catching a baby falling from a window. People are generating videos of fake bomb scares, children in warzones, and graphic scenes of violence and racism. One video shows a Black protester yelling the 'you will not replace us' slogan. Reality Defender bypassed Sora 2's identity safeguards to generate celebrity deepfakes. | Various individuals and groups, including Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Bryan Cranston, SpongeBob, Pikachu, users who shared likenesses, and a Black protester. | Video | The Verge |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Fraudsters used deepfake technology to impersonate a company's CFO on a video call, tricking an employee into transferring $25 million. | Company employee | Video | UNESCO |
| Oct 27, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video was posted on Instagram claiming that staff at Udaipur’s Taj Lake Palace poisoned wealthy guests. The Delhi High Court ordered Meta to take down the video and share details of the account operator. The video had garnered over 20,000 views. The court noted the video was AI-generated using text-to-speech tools and fabricated visuals. | Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur | Video | LawBeat |
| Oct 27, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting an elderly woman scolding a disabled young man on a subway was shared on TikTok and YouTube, racking up millions of views. The video contains digital artifacts inconsistent with a genuine scene. The video exploits intergenerational conflict, a sensitive social issue in South Korea. | South Korean public | Video | Yahoo News Malaysia |
| Oct 26, 2025 | Republican candidate John Reid released a YouTube video showing himself debating an AI-generated version of Democratic Senator Ghazala Hashmi. Hashmi’s campaign says she declined to debate Reid, and that his use of her image and voice through AI was not approved and did not reflect her actual statements or positions. | Ghazala Hashmi | Video, Audio | WUSA9 |
| Oct 26, 2025 | AI-generated receipts are being used to commit expense fraud. The article cites specific examples of increased fraudulent activity detected by expense software platforms after the release of improved image generation models. The deepfakes involve AI generated invoices and receipts. | Businesses and AP departments | Image | PYMNTS.com |
| Oct 26, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Michael Jackson have gone viral, and Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late Robin Williams, has asked people to stop sending her videos of her dad. | Robin Williams | Video | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Oct 26, 2025 | OpenAI's Sora was prompted to create visual scenes from Aotearoa New Zealand's history, from the 1700s to the 1860s. The prompts were deliberately left open-ended to reveal the model's default visual assumptions rather than prescribe what should appear. The AI-generated images often depicted pre-colonial landscapes as empty wilderness, Captain Cook as a calm civilizer, and Māori as timeless, peripheral figures, recycling colonial stereotypes and biases. | Māori People and their claims to political sovereignty, redress and cultural revitalization | Image | Tech Xplore |
| Oct 26, 2025 | An AI-generated image featuring Vaishnavi and her father, Saikumar, circulated on fan pages, resembling a selfie with Saikumar placing his hand on Vaishnavi’s shoulder. It was posted with the caption, “Sai achan, an unfulfilled dream.” | Vaishnavi and Saikumar | Image | Onmanorama |
| Oct 25, 2025 | AI-generated images of monkeys on the loose in Newark prompted police to investigate, later determined to likely be a hoax. A similar incident occurred in Yonkers involving an AI-generated homeless man prank. | Newark Police Department and residents of Newark | Image | People.com |
| Oct 25, 2025 | A 14-year-old girl's photos were used with the ClothOff AI tool to create a fake nude image. A male classmate used the tool. The fake image was then spread through group chats and social media. The lawsuit seeks to delete all fake images and stop the company from using them to train AI models. It also seeks to remove the tool from the internet and provide financial compensation for emotional harm and loss of privacy. | Teenager in New Jersey | Image | Fox News |
| Oct 25, 2025 | Chinese women are using AI to generate images and videos of homeless men inside their homes to test their partner's love/reaction. The AI-generated content depicts homeless men inside the women's rooms or being invited into the home. | Husbands/Boyfriends of the women creating the deepfakes | Image, Video | South China Morning Post |
| Oct 25, 2025 | AI-generated images of monkeys running wild at Georgia King Village apartment complex in Newark triggered panicked calls to authorities, leading police on a frenzied hunt. The images showed scores of primates and two monkeys rummaging through a dumpster. | Newark Police Department and residents of Georgia King Village apartment complex | Image | New York Post |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Andrew Cuomo's campaign created and briefly released an AI-generated video depicting Zohran Mamdani with criminals endorsing him. The video was criticized for racism. Cuomo's campaign blamed a junior staffer for mistakenly posting the unfinished video. A previous video depicted Bill de Blasio as Dr. Evil. | Zohran Mamdani, Bill de Blasio | Video | New York Post |
| Oct 24, 2025 | A man approached Melanie Valentine at a Home Depot with a realistic-looking video allegedly showing someone stealing her husband's truck, attempting to lure her away to catch the 'thief'. Valentine refused and called the police, who are investigating it as suspicious activity involving AI. The video was likely a deepfake intended to facilitate a carjacking scheme. | Melanie Valentine and her husband | Video | WPTV |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Three AI-generated videos posted by Donald Trump on Truth Social were shown to Americans. The videos depict Trump dropping sewage on protesters, Barack Obama being arrested, and a golden statue of Trump in Gaza with a Trump Gaza hotel. Reactions were generally negative. | Barack Obama, Protesters, Gaza | Video | YouGov |
| Oct 24, 2025 | A fake image of monkeys at an apartment complex in Newark was generated using AI and sent to the authorities, prompting a police and animal control search. This caused a waste of resources and time for the authorities. | Newark Police Department, Newark Animal Control, Residents of Newark | Image | News 12 - New Jersey |
| Oct 24, 2025 | A deepfake video of Rashmika Mandanna entering an elevator went viral on social media. | Rashmika Mandanna | Video | The Indian Express |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A finance worker in Hong Kong was duped into attending a meeting with four co-workers who were actually scammers using deepfake video. He was deceived into wiring them $25 million. | Finance worker in Hong Kong | Video | Newswise |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Gavin Newsom posted an AI video of himself catching all the shit from Trump’s jet in his ass and depositing it in a toilet, where it belongs. This was in response to Trump posting an AI-generated video of himself flying a fighter jet and dumping what appears to be sewage onto the protestors below. | Donald Trump | Video | ClickHole |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A Hong Kong company lost $25 million when employees received a video call from someone who appeared to be their CFO requesting a wire transfer. The "CFO" in the call was actually a deepfake. | Hong Kong company | Video | Acrisure |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A deepfake video was posted to social media platforms on Tuesday, presenting a mock RTE interview where she appeared to quit the race. It had been watched more than 30,000 times before being removed. | Catherine Connolly | Video | Pinsent Masons |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A deepfake AI video was created showing Catherine Connolly announcing her withdrawal from the Irish presidential race. The video also impersonated RTÉ journalist Sharon Ní Bheoláin and correspondent Paul Cunningham. The deepfake video was shared nearly 30,000 times on Facebook before being removed by Meta. | Catherine Connolly, Irish presidential candidate | Video | Engadget |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A deepfake video was posted on Facebook on a fake RTÉ News AI account showing Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the Irish Presidential Election, and falsely stating the election was cancelled. The video garnered 30,000 views in 12 hours before removal. | Catherine Connolly, Irish Presidential Candidate; Heather Humphreys, Irish Presidential Candidate; Irish Presidential Election | Video | Futurism |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Google's AI systems falsely called Robby Starbuck a 'child rapist,' 'serial sexual abuser' and 'shooter' in response to user queries and delivered defamatory statements to millions of users. Also, falsely connected him with white nationalist Richard Spencer. The chatbot said that he committed spousal abuse, attended the January 6 Capitol riots and appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, among other things. | Robby Starbuck | Reuters | |
| Oct 22, 2025 | A deepfake video appeared online showing an AI version of Catherine Connolly announcing her withdrawal from the election. She has lodged a formal complaint with the Electoral Commission over the video. | Catherine Connolly | Video | BBC |
| Oct 22, 2025 | An AI-generated "Martina McBride" voice was used in a scam to trick a fan into selling his home to raise money for her. | Martina McBride's fans | Audio | CNBC |
| Oct 21, 2025 | AI video of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a fake mustache and sombrero, which Jeffries and civil rights groups condemned as racist. | Hakeem Jeffries | Video | Time Magazine |
| Oct 21, 2025 | An AI-generated video posted by President Trump depicts him flying a plane over 'No Kings' protesters and dropping what appears to be feces on them. | No Kings protesters | Video | CNN |
| Oct 21, 2025 | NCC Group created a real-time audio deepfake tool for voice phishing. They successfully impersonated individuals in tests with clients. A company was tricked in the hiring process by a video deepfake. | Clients of NCC Group (in tests), a company that shipped a laptop to a fraudulent employee (victim company) | Audio, Video | IEEE Spectrum |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Donald Trump has used AI-generated images and videos to attack political rivals, create flattering depictions of himself, and disseminate misleading campaign materials. Examples include a video depicting himself as a fighter pilot dropping excrement on protesters, images of himself embracing animals after falsely claiming Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs, a video depicting Hakeem Jeffries in stereotypical Mexican garb with Chuck Schumer's voice manipulated to disparage the Democratic Party, and a video showing "Trump Gaza" as a beachfront paradise. | Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Robert De Niro, Kamala Harris | Image, Video, Audio | The New York Times |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting him in a fighter jet dropping what appears to be feces on U.S. protesters, including left-wing influencer Harry Sisson, in a setting resembling Times Square. The video is set to the song 'Danger Zone' by Kenny Loggins, who has requested its removal. | Harry Sisson and protesters | Video | NBC News |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Article mentions a fake, 'expletive-laden, deepfake video with racist tropes' posted by Donald Trump on X, which garnered nearly 38 million views. | Donald Trump | Video | USA Today |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI generated video on social media showing him in a fighter jet, adorned with a crown, dropping diarrhea on protesters. Harry Sisson inquired about the video. | Protesters / Harry Sisson | Video | USA Today |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Describes AI-generated videos of Jake Paul appearing to come out as gay and Martin Luther King Jr. stealing a slushie. Also mentions an AI generated audio of Barack Obama. | Jake Paul, Martin Luther King Jr. | Video | Katie Couric Media |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Videos of Bryan Cranston appeared on Sora, one showing him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson. OpenAI has "strengthened guardrails" around its opt-in policy for likeness and voice and expressed regret for these unintentional generations. | Bryan Cranston | Video | The Verge |
| Oct 18, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on social media depicted George Freeman, a Tory MP, announcing he had joined Reform UK. Freeman reported the video to the police, denouncing it as an AI-generated deepfake using his image and voice without permission. He clarified that he remains a Conservative MP and has no intention of joining Reform or any other party. The video showed Freeman appearing to say the Conservative party had lost its way and that the time for half measures was over. | George Freeman | Video | BBC |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting him as a king in a fighter jet dropping what appears to be fecal matter on protesters in NYC. Other videos shared by Trump included one showing him placing a crown on his head and drawing a sword. The White House account posted an image of Trump and VP JD Vance wearing crowns above an image of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer wearing sombreros. | NYC Protesters, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer | Video, Image | Variety |
| Oct 17, 2025 | The NRSC published a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer celebrating the government shutdown. The video used AI to generate Schumer's image and make him say that each day of the shutdown "gets better for us". | Chuck Schumer | Video | NOTUS — News of the United States |
| Oct 17, 2025 | The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) used AI to generate a video of Chuck Schumer saying, 'Every day gets better for us' regarding a government shutdown. The words were taken from a print interview. The ad includes a disclaimer that AI was used and ends with an AI-generated close-up of Schumer grinning. | Chuck Schumer | Video | ifiberone.com |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Hyper-realistic deepfake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. saying crude, offensive or racist things have spread across social media, including fake videos of King stealing from a grocery store, speeding away from police and perpetuating racial stereotypes. | Martin Luther King Jr. | Video | NPR |
| Oct 17, 2025 | OpenAI paused the ability for users to generate deep fakes resembling Martin Luther King Jr. on its Sora app after "disrespectful depictions" of his image appeared. Dr. Bernice King, Dr. King’s daughter, asked people to stop sending her AI videos resembling her father. Robin Williams’ daughter also asked Sora users to stop generating AI videos of her father. | Martin Luther King Jr. | Video | Advanced Television |
| Oct 17, 2025 | A deepfake video of Nirmala Sitharaman was created where she appeared to be promoting an investment app and guaranteeing returns on investments. The deepfake was detected due to mispronounced words and monotonous speech patterns. AI detection tools confirmed the video was likely deepfake or AI-generated content. | Nirmala Sitharaman | Video | The Quint |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Hiroya Yokoi used generative AI software to create 20,000 sexually explicit images of 262 women, including actresses, television personalities and J-pop idols, which he sold online for profit. He was arrested for displaying fake sexual images of three actresses online. | J-pop idols and actresses | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Users of the OpenAI's Sora 2 app generated deepfake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. which were described as "demeaning, disjointed" and "disrespectful". OpenAI paused the ability for users to re-create his likeness and is strengthening its guardrails for how users depict historical figures. | Martin Luther King Jr. | Video | Fortune |
| Oct 17, 2025 | A TikToker uses AI-generated voiceover to mimic Mayor Eric Adams and create video collages where Adams appears to be reading translated scripts. | Eric Adams | Video, Audio | Hell Gate |
| Oct 17, 2025 | A woman created an AI-generated image of a man on their couch and sent it to her husband, claiming the man had forced his way into their home. This prompted a 911 call and a police response. The woman later admitted the photo was AI-generated. She was arrested and charged with making a false statement concerning an emergency/crime and providing a false statement to a state official. | Husband, Police | Image | NBC4 Washington |
| Oct 17, 2025 | The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) created a 30-second attack ad using AI to generate a deepfake video of Senator Chuck Schumer. The video shows an AI-generated version of Schumer repeatedly saying, "Every day gets better for us," a quote taken from a real statement he made about a government shutdown. The video includes a small watermark indicating it was AI-generated. | Chuck Schumer | Video | NPR |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Hiroya Yokoi, 31, was arrested for producing and displaying nearly 20,000 AI-generated explicit images of 262 female celebrities. He earned 1.2 million yen ($8,000) by selling them between October and September. He admitted to creating the images for financial gain to cover living expenses and repay a student loan. | Female Celebrities (actors, television personalities, idols) | Image | Anadolu Ajansı |
| Oct 16, 2025 | A Quebec court fined Jean Laprade for submitting AI-generated content as legal defense in a contract dispute case involving helicopters and an airplane in Guinea. The fabricated materials included non-existent legal citations and inconsistent conclusions. The judge emphasized the dangers of AI misuse in courts. | Judicial System | Digital Watch Observatory | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Jake Paul uploaded his image to OpenAI's Sora app as a cameo, allowing others to create deepfake videos of him. He then threatened to sue anyone spreading deepfakes of him doing things he would never do, seemingly as a publicity stunt while also announcing he was an OpenAI investor. | Jake Paul | Video | Scientific American |
| Oct 16, 2025 | A teenager used a generative AI tool to blend authentic images of three classmates’ actual faces and clothed bodies with computer-generated images of naked body parts to result in images that appear to show his classmates without clothes. The charges against the teenager were ordered to be dismissed because the state law didn’t consider AI-generated sexually exploitative content of children to be a crime against real children at the time. | Three classmates of a teenager | Image | The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel |
| Oct 14, 2025 | AI-generated images of a homeless person inside someone's home are sent to family members or roommates to scare them. This has resulted in 911 calls and wasted emergency resources. | Residents of Shawano County, specifically family members or roommates of those targeted by the prank. | Image | WSAW |
| Oct 11, 2025 | Jaxen Cole allegedly created a deepfake video using a police officer's body camera footage, digitally manipulating the officer's voice to say different things. The altered video was posted on Cole's Facebook and Instagram accounts around February 14, 2025. The deepfake had the caption 'Do you think this officer wants to be my Valentine?' and had Officer Skehan's voice saying things about how much he admires Jaxon Cole and wants his autograph. | Officer John Skehan | Video, Audio | WMUR |
| Oct 10, 2025 | A California judge threw out an $8.7 million lawsuit after discovering deepfake testimony. The video appeared convincing, but the judge noticed the lips moved out of sync with the voice, and the eyes never blinked. Nine pieces of fabricated evidence, including doctored photos and fake text messages, created using readily available AI tools, were also discovered. The plaintiff, representing himself, created the materials with consumer-grade AI tools. | Court system, opposing party in lawsuit | Video, Image, Audio | Bank Info Security |
| Oct 08, 2025 | An employee in Hong Kong approved a $25 million transfer after a video call with what looked and sounded like his leadership team. The "executives" approving the transfer were fake, created using deepfake technology. | Hong Kong Company | Video, Audio | Baker Donelson |
| Oct 08, 2025 | A finance worker in Hong Kong was duped into attending a meeting with four co-workers who were actually scammers using deepfake video. The worker wired them $25 million. | Finance worker in Hong Kong | Video | Georgia Tech News Center |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Robin Williams are being created and sent to his daughter, Zelda Williams, causing her distress. These videos reanimate the deceased actor using his likeness. | Robin Williams | Video | Forbes |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Donald Trump used an AI-generated video featuring himself hitting a cowbell to Blue Öyster Cult's song '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper' in a video mocking Democrats. Doctored images falsely portrayed Taylor Swift as a supporter. Blue Öyster Cult clarified they were not contacted or notified in advance and that the copyright is owned by SONY MUSIC. Swift responded by endorsing Kamala Harris and expressing fears around AI and misinformation. | Democrats, Taylor Swift | Video, Image | billboard.com |
| Oct 07, 2025 | An AI-generated video of Tupac shopping in Target with fans has surfaced, causing distress among fans who find it disturbing and disrespectful. The video depicts the late rapper interacting with supposed fans asking for pictures. | Tupac Shakur | Video | Yahoo |
| Oct 07, 2025 | A deepfake video of Tupac shopping in Target and interacting with "fans" has surfaced online, sparking outrage. | Tupac Shakur | Video | VIBE.com |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Stephen Hawking being brutalized in various ways, such as being attacked in a WWE ring, beaten by a UFC fighter, trampled by a bull, attacked by a crocodile, and crashing on a skateboard, were created using OpenAI's Sora 2 and shared on social media. | Stephen Hawking | Video | futurism.com |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father. She finds them disturbing and compares them to 'over-processed hotdogs.' She had previously criticized AI recreations of his voice in 2023. | Zelda Williams | Video, Audio | HuffPost |
| Oct 07, 2025 | The article describes the launch of OpenAI's Sora 2, a text-to-video AI model, and various instances of its misuse on the associated social media app. These include a deepfake video of Sam Altman shoplifting, fabricated footage of JFK and MLK saying things they didn't, depictions of real people as Nazis, users inserted into the Jan 6 riot, ragebait content, and copyright infringement involving cartoon characters. The article highlights the potential for disinformation, extremist content, and copyright issues arising from the use of Sora 2. | Sam Altman, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., various cartoon characters (Spongebob, Pikachu, etc.) | Video | Rolling Stone |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI deepfake videos depicting Jake Paul coming out as gay, including images of him in front of a Pride flag applying fake eyelashes, wearing colorful eyeshadow, and wearing a pink ballet costume. The videos also show him with Pride-themed boxing gloves. | Jake Paul | Image, Video | PinkNews |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated Bollywood videos, some sexually explicit, depicting celebrities in intimate or romantic scenarios. The Bachchans filed lawsuits seeking removal of AI-generated videos infringing on their intellectual property rights and challenging YouTube’s AI training policy. They are seeking approximately $450,000 in damages from Google and websites offering unauthorized merchandise. | Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | Video | Net Influencer |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video parody of Blue Öyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” on Truth Social. The video features an animated Trump and depicts Director Of The United States Office Of Management And Budget Russ Vought as the Grim Reaper, who will pursue mass layoffs of federal workers and shutdown democratic agencies. | Russ Vought, Democratic agencies | Video | Stereogum |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated child sexual abuse images have risen dramatically, with a 1,325% increase reported. The report highlights the use of AI, including deepfakes, to generate images of underage individuals without their consent. Reports of these images rose from 4,700 in 2023 to over 67,000 in 2024. | Children | Image | holyrood.com |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated videos and clips of Robin Williams are circulating on platforms like TikTok. These videos are criticized by his daughter, Zelda Williams, as misrepresenting his ideas and opinions, infringing on IP and trademarks, and being a disrespectful use of AI. She highlighted this issue during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, when the unauthorized use of Robin Williams' voice was already a concern. | Robin Williams | Video, Audio | Consequence of Sound |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Nirmala Sitharaman are circulating online, manipulated to mislead citizens and distort facts. The videos mimic voices, clone identities, and create lifelike videos for manipulation. | Nirmala Sitharaman | Video | Mint |
| Oct 07, 2025 | A deepfake video of Madam Pang was used in a Facebook advertisement to promote an illegal betting website. She filed a complaint with the Thonglor Police Station in Bangkok. | Madam Pang | Video | VnExpress International |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Deloitte Australia provided a report to the Australian government's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations that contained errors apparently generated by AI. The report included a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment and references to nonexistent academic research papers. A revised version was published after a researcher alerted the media to the fabricated references. Deloitte agreed to refund the final installment under its contract. The report reviewed departmental IT systems’ use of automated penalties in Australia's welfare system. The revised version included a disclosure that a generative AI language system, Azure OpenAI, was used in writing the report. | Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations | The Killeen Daily Herald | |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Deepfake videos of colleagues or supervisors are used to trick employees into revealing sensitive information or committing financial fraud. The fake leader pressures the recipient for quick action via video call, creating a sense of crisis to prevent critical thinking or verification. | VUMC Employees | Video | VUMC News |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated content targeting public figures in Australia. Fake profiles used to amplify anti-American content in the Philippines. | Public figures, government officials, public figures, general public | Asia Times | |
| Oct 07, 2025 | Users are generating videos that infringe on copyrighted films, shows, and characters using OpenAI's Sora 2. The MPA is demanding OpenAI take immediate action to prevent IP infringement after the proliferation of these videos. WME is opting out of having their clients' likenesses featured on the video tool. | Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery, South Park, Pokémon, and SpongeBob SquarePants | Video | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Oct 07, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Robin Williams and other deceased celebrities are circulating on social media. Zelda Williams, Robin Williams' daughter, has publicly stated that she finds these AI-generated videos 'gross' and 'maddening' and has requested people stop sending them to her. | Robin Williams (posthumously) | Video | Deadline |
| Oct 06, 2025 | Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee's office sent out a press release with an AI-generated image of City Hall that contained missing and fabricated elements. The mayor's office acknowledged the use of the artificial image. | City of Oakland | Image | The Oaklandside |
| Oct 06, 2025 | WME opted clients out of OpenAI’s Sora AI video tool, which can insert people into AI-generated environments, because of Hollywood anxiety over AI tools that could disrupt jobs and use talent likenesses without proper authorization. | WME clients (actors, artists) | Video | Los Angeles Times |
| Oct 06, 2025 | Former band director Brennan Marcotte is charged after investigators found over 40 AI-generated child pornography images on his phone. He is also accused of sending inappropriate messages to a 14-year-old student and a former student. | Children (AI-generated images) | Image | KTUL |
| Oct 06, 2025 | OpenAI's Sora app was overrun with mocking deepfakes after its launch. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, became the unwilling star of numerous bizarre clips, including one where he grills a dead Pikachu. | Sam Altman | Video | WinBuzzer |
| Oct 06, 2025 | Disney promoted a Dude Perfect video with an AI-generated thumbnail featuring a nightmarish Mickey Mouse, upsetting fans because of the character's strange features (waxy skin and human-like teeth). | Disney (Mickey Mouse IP) | Image | Creative Bloq |
| Oct 06, 2025 | Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated "actor" created by Particle6, has sparked controversy in Hollywood. Tilly was developed entirely from scratch using original creative design, with the company denying any usage of any person's or performer's likeness without explicit consent and fair compensation. The main concerns revolve around reinforcing narrow beauty standards for women, potential negative impacts on body image, and the possibility of AI being used as a tool to exploit vulnerable actors and discourage them from demanding better working conditions. | Actors, especially young women at the bottom of the film industry hierarchies | Image, Video | HuffPost |
| Oct 06, 2025 | Sexually explicit deepfake images were posted online by the defendant, Rotondo, who refused to remove them. The court imposed a financial penalty of more than £220,000. Professor McGlynn provided expert evidence. | Victim of Rotondo, not named in article | Image | Durham University |
| Oct 05, 2025 | Former band director Brennan Marcotte was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material after the Rogers County Sheriff's Office found over 40 AI-generated images of child pornography on his phone. The investigation started due to inappropriate messages involving a student and former student. | Children (creation of child sexual abuse material) | Image | KTUL |
| Oct 05, 2025 | AI generated video of Sam Altman shoplifting. | Sam Altman | Video | ts2.tech |
| Oct 04, 2025 | AI platforms were cloning Asha Bhosle's voice to create AI-generated voice clones mimicking her singing without her consent. The Bombay High Court has barred AI platforms and sellers from cloning her voice or likeness without consent. Google has agreed to take down specific URLs identified by Bhosle’s team. Defendants are required to share subscriber information, IP logs, and payment details to assist in identifying infringers. | Asha Bhosle | Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Oct 04, 2025 | Videos generated by OpenAI's Sora 2 were used to create potentially inflammatory and misleading content. Examples include: security camera footage of ballot stuffing, aftermath of an explosion in Israel, robberies, and a video with a voice resembling Obama at a political rally. | General Public, Political Figures (Obama) | Video | VICE |
| Oct 04, 2025 | Sharon Brightwell was tricked out of $15,000 after listening to what she thought was her daughter crying down the phone, telling her that she had been in an accident and needed money. An AI voice clone was used to impersonate her daughter. | Sharon Brightwell | Audio | Live Science |
| Oct 04, 2025 | A group in Brazil used deepfake videos featuring Gisele Bündchen and other celebrities on Instagram to promote fraudulent advertising campaigns, including a cosmetic product and free suitcases offer. Victims lost small amounts of money, and the scammers profited millions. Four suspects were arrested, and assets were frozen. The investigation began in August 2024. | Gisele Bündchen and other celebrities, Instagram users | Video | Букви |
| Oct 03, 2025 | An AI-generated video posted by Donald Trump depicts Russ Vought as the grim reaper threatening to slash Democratic priorities. The video is set to music and uses AI to portray Vought negatively. | Russ Vought and Democratic priorities | Video | AL.com |
| Oct 03, 2025 | A Gartner survey found that 62% of organizations experienced deepfake attacks, used in social engineering to impersonate executives and trick employees into transferring money. | Organizations | Audio, Video | KnowBe4 blog |
| Oct 03, 2025 | Users are creating deepfake videos of Sam Altman in various scenarios using OpenAI's Sora app, including having him arrested, confessing to crying, and endorsing Gemini over ChatGPT. The app's 'Cameos' feature allows users to upload their likeness and let others use it in AI-generated videos. While the app has moderation filters and watermarks, some users are able to bypass these. | Sam Altman | Video | CNET |
| Oct 03, 2025 | Donald Trump falsely claimed that Kamala Harris's team used AI to create an image of a big crowd of supporters. | Kamala Harris | Image | NPR |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Attackers inject AI-generated deepfakes directly into iOS video calls by connecting a compromised, jailbroken iPhone to a remote server, bypassing its physical camera, and injecting synthetic video streams into active calls. The deepfakes use face swaps and motion re-enactments to transform stolen images or static photos into lifelike video, impersonating legitimate users or creating fabricated identities. | iOS users, specifically those using jailbroken iOS 15 and newer devices | Video | r/applesucks |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Donald Trump shared AI-generated videos on social media depicting Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and curly mustache as mariachi music plays. After Jeffries condemned the video, Trump posted another deepfake video mocking his reaction. | Hakeem Jeffries | Video | Democracy Now! |
| Oct 02, 2025 | The Bombay High Court granted Asha Bhosle protection against AI platforms cloning her voice or commercially exploiting her image. Mayk Inc, Covers AI, and Harry Tiwari are restrained from exploiting Bhosle’s personality rights. Amazon, Flipkart and Google were directed to take down the identified infringing content. | Asha Bhosle | Audio, Image | Odisha Bytes |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Financial losses from deepfake-enabled fraud exceeded $12.3 billion globally in 2024, with US businesses bearing the largest share of these costs. Attack scenarios include CEO Fraud 2.0, where deepfake audio and video of executives authorize fraudulent transactions. Identity verification bypass uses fake biometric data to defeat authentication systems. Misinformation campaigns deploy synthetic videos to spread panic or manipulate markets. Blackmail and extortion schemes create compromising fake footage for ransom demands. | US businesses | Audio, Video | r/u_Hot_Lengthiness1173 |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Deepfake videos were created and posted by Donald Trump on his social media, one making it seem as if Chuck Schumer called Democrats “woke pieces of shit,” and another showing Hakeem Jeffries with a fake mustache and sombrero. These videos were played on a loop in the White House briefing room. The videos used fabricated audio and visual elements (sombrero, mustache) to mock the Democratic leaders and promote a false claim about their stance on health insurance subsidies for unauthorized immigrants. | Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries | Video | The Guardian |
| Oct 02, 2025 | A mother in Buffalo, Elizabeth Benz, received a phone call where a scammer used AI to mimic her son's voice, claiming he was in danger and demanding a ransom of $2,500. The scam was confirmed to be an AI-generated voice scam by a SUNY professor. | Elizabeth Benz and her son Fred | Audio | WKBW |
| Oct 02, 2025 | A classmate used an innocent photo from Elliston Berry's Instagram account, run it through an app and used artificial intelligence to digitally strip away her clothes. | Elliston Berry | Image | WPEC |
| Oct 01, 2025 | OpenAI released the Sora app, which allows users to create personalized deepfakes using their own likeness or that of others. Examples include a video of Sam Altman stealing a GPU from Target and videos of WIRED colleagues arguing. The app has some safety guardrails, but also allows for potentially convincing deepfakes. | Sam Altman, WIRED Colleagues | Video, Audio | WIRED |
| Oct 01, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Elon Musk were used to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Deepfake audio was used to impersonate family members (grandson) in a "grandparent" scam. | Elon Musk and individual grandparents | Video, Audio | Harvard Business School |
| Oct 01, 2025 | Creation of an AI actor named Tilly Norwood by a Dutch creator. Norwood has an Instagram page with AI-generated headshots and comedy sketches. The creator aims for Norwood to become the 'next Scarlett Johansson.' Hollywood actors and the SAG-AFTRA union have condemned the creation, fearing job displacement and devaluing human artistry. | Hollywood actors | Image, Video | BBC |
| Sep 30, 2025 | An AI production studio created an AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood. The studio founder claimed they were in talks to sign the AI creation with a talent agency for acting roles. This sparked backlash from actors and SAG-AFTRA, who view it as a threat to human actors' livelihoods and artistry. Clips of Tilly Norwood acting are shared on her Instagram account, including a comedy sketch called 'AI Commissioner'. | Human actors (specifically Tilly Norwood) | Video, Image | ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos |
| Sep 30, 2025 | A team of material scientists used ChatGPT to generate fake electron microscopy images of a nanomaterial resembling 'nano-cheetos'. They then surveyed 250 scientists to see if they could identify the image. The experts could not tell the difference between the real and fake image. | Scientific Community | Image | Chemistry World |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Anthony Rotondo was fined $343,500 for posting deepfake pornographic images of prominent Australian women on MrDeepFakes.com. He initially ignored removal notices and even sent the images to the eSafety Commissioner and media outlets. The case was brought by the eSafety Commissioner under the Online Safety Act. | Prominent Australian Women | Image | The Guardian |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Deepfake videos and images of Pope Leo XIV are circulating online. The videos show the Pope purportedly speaking on various topics and making statements he never said, including commenting on Charlie Kirk's murder and denouncing colonialism while praising Burkina Faso’s interim president. AI-generated images also depicted the Pope falling down stairs. The Vatican is actively combating these deepfakes. | Pope Leo XIV, Vatican | Video, Image | Catholic News Agency |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Brandon Michael Fry was arrested for allegedly creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material using images of children he knew. He was charged with sexual abuse and possession of child pornography. The investigation is ongoing, and additional charges are anticipated. | Children known to the perpetrator | Image | 1819 News |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Jake Paul created and posted an AI-generated video depicting himself and Gervonta Davis kissing as a form of trolling. The video was shared on X and Instagram and gained significant views and likes. | Gervonta Davis | Video | HOT 97 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Brandon Michael Fry was arrested for sexually abusing a child and using AI to generate explicit images of children he knew. The investigation started on April 4th after a report of child sexual abuse. Fry allegedly touched a child while monitoring surveillance cameras and was found to have hundreds of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material on his computer using images of children he knew. | Children known to Brandon Michael Fry | Image | fox10tv.com |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Jake Paul posted an AI-generated video of him kissing Gervonta Davis on social media to promote their upcoming fight. The video appears believable, but the scenario is absurd, so viewers are unlikely to believe it is real. | Gervonta Davis | Video | Sports Illustrated |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Josh Stilman is accused of sending AI-generated nude images of a social media influencer via Instagram and threatening to post them online if she didn't respond to his messages. He used the username 'FriendBlender'. The FBI found AI-generated images on Stilman's Google Drive and messages sent to the victim. | Social media influencer | Image | ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | An aunt used an AI-generated image of the deceased grandmother for her funeral service, despite objections from other family members who felt it was disrespectful to the grandmother's memory. The AI image was generated from a real photo of the grandmother, but significantly altered her appearance. | The deceased grandmother | Image | TwistedSifter |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Deepfake videos featuring Nirmala Sitharaman were circulated on social media, digitally manipulating her face and voice to make it appear as though she was personally endorsing a government-backed investment scheme promising unrealistic returns (deposit Rs 22,000 and earn Rs 50,000 every month). | Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister | Video | The Times of India |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Charles Lafkoff, a 71-year-old Houstonian, was scammed out of $15,000 by someone using AI voice cloning to impersonate his son. The scammer claimed his son was arrested for a DUI and needed money for bail. The scammer also impersonated someone from the Harris County Public Defender's office to further the ruse. | Charles Lafkoff | Audio | FOX 26 Houston |
| Sep 24, 2025 | AI was used to clone the voice of Françoise Cadol, the French voice actor for Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video game series, and incorporate it into an update of Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered without her consent. This resulted in a public outcry from fans and the voice acting community. The game developer, Aspyra, acknowledged the issue and removed the AI-generated voiceover content. | Françoise Cadol (voice actor for Lara Croft) | Audio | ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Rafael Nadal reported the circulation of fake videos generated by AI that imitate his image and voice. These videos promote deceptive advertising and investment proposals that he did not endorse. | Rafael Nadal | Video | ET BrandEquity |
| Sep 24, 2025 | AI-generated videos are circulating online falsely portraying Rafael Nadal as giving financial advice. The videos mimic his face and voice while falsely attributing investment tips and proposals to him. | Rafael Nadal | Video | Mathrubhumi English |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sarah's face was superimposed onto graphic pornographic images by a friend named John, who confessed to the act. The images were uploaded to 'fakes' websites and pornographic websites. | Sarah | Image | 9News.com.au |
| Sep 23, 2025 | An AI-generated video circulated on social media depicting the CN Tower on fire, leading to increased Google searches. The video was posted by an account that has posted many similar videos showing landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, and the Statue of Liberty on fire. Users pointed out the fake video and said that they were near the CN Tower and it was fine. | CN Tower | Video | Toronto Star |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting Arab immigrants taking over London are being shared on social media to fuel anti-immigration protests. These images often feature a Caucasian victim flanked by a menacing mob of minorities and celebrate racism. This has coincided with an increase in anti-immigrant and Islamophobic hate crimes in the UK. | Arab immigrants in London | Image | Futurism |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI-generated video showing Akshay Kumar as Maharishi Valmiki, used to create a fake film trailer also featuring Paresh Rawal and Pankaj Tripathi. Kumar clarified the video is fake and created using AI. | Akshay Kumar | Video | The Times of India |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Deepfakes are used to bypass KYC processes, impersonate executives in fraudulent transfers, and create fake videos promoting bogus Bitcoin giveaways. Law enforcement agencies in Asia dismantled 87 deepfake scam rings impersonating figures like Elon Musk and government officials. Michael Saylor's team removes approximately 80 fake AI-generated YouTube videos impersonating him daily. An $11 million OKX account was drained via AI impersonation. | Michael Saylor, Elon Musk, OKX users | Video | Cointelegraph |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI-generated images and videos portraying Muslims as threats or instigators of disorder were spread on social media, contributing to anti-Muslim hate and far-right extremism. The content was linked to violent riots in Southport after false claims wrongly identified the suspect in a mass stabbing of children as a Muslim asylum seeker. | Muslims | Image, Video | ShiaWaves |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI-generated videos falsely portraying Akshay Kumar as Maharishi Valmiki. An AI-generated trailer circulating on YouTube falsely claimed that the film would star Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi, and Paresh Rawal. | Akshay Kumar | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Nearly two-thirds (62%) of organizations have experienced a deepfake attack in the past 12 months, according to a new Gartner survey. These deepfake attacks encompass either social engineering, impersonating someone during a video or audio call with an employee or exploiting automated verification, such as face or voice biometrics. The most pervasive technique is deepfakes being combined with social engineering, such as impersonating an executive to get an employee to transfer a large sum of money into an attacker-controlled account. | Organizations | Video, Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI-generated video posted by Kevin Kijewski depicted Abdul El-Sayed lighting a chair on fire. El-Sayed denies it is him in the video. | Abdul El-Sayed | Video | FOX 2 Detroit |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Hackers are using a deepfake tool on jailbroken iPhones running iOS 15 or newer to inject AI-generated deepfake video into banking apps, bypassing biometric authentication and committing fraud. The tool uses an RPTM server to link a hacker's computer to the iPhone, taking over the camera feed and feeding the app a deepfake video stream. | Users of banking and financial apps on jailbroken iPhones | Video | Tom's Guide |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Aspyr allegedly used Generative AI to create new spoken dialogue for the French version of Tomb Raider IV–V–VI Remastered, based on the voice of Françoise Cadol, without her consent. Cadol has taken legal action, leading to Aspyr removing the AI voiceover content. | Françoise Cadol | Audio | Time Extension |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Deepfake videos featuring Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo Rodriguez have surfaced on TikTok. One video portrays Rodriguez expressing his support for Kimmel. Another deepfake shows Kimmel telling viewers not to worry about his show's suspension. Another AI-generated clip shows Jimmy Fallon reacting to Kimmel's suspension. | Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo Rodriguez | Video | LateNighter |
| Sep 20, 2025 | Aspyr Media used AI to generate a voice similar to Françoise Cadol's to replace her original recordings for the remastered Tomb Raider games without her consent. This led to legal action and the removal of the AI voice content. | Françoise Cadol | Audio | Twisted Voxel |
| Sep 19, 2025 | A deepfake AI porn video was allegedly shared in Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith's office. A former employee claims to have seen the video. | Unknown individual featured in the deepfake video | Video | IndyStar |
| Sep 15, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created and falsely attributed to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, claiming to be a clearer image of Tyler R., the suspect in the Charlie Kirk shooting. The deepfake image contained several AI-generated artifacts, like a distorted flag, gibberish symbol, and unnaturally smooth skin. This image was then used by users online to falsely claim that the FBI had arrested the wrong person. | Tyler R. and the FBI | Image | DW |
| Sep 12, 2025 | A rogue employee used AI to clone voice actor Craig Schmitman's voice without authorization. Aero Cosmetics withdrew all uses of the AI-generated voice and issued multiple apologies. Schmitman's attorney sent a demand letter threatening litigation. | Craig Schmitman | Audio | USA Herald |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Françoise Cadol, the French voice actor, is suing Aspyr for using AI voice cloning in Tomb Raider I–III Remastered without her consent. Lene Bastos, the Brazilian voice actor, had her voice replaced with AI-generated audio. Aspyr admitted an external partner used generative AI without approval and pledged to remove the AI-generated voices. | Françoise Cadol and Lene Bastos | Audio | Inven Global |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Warner Bros. filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that Midjourney enabled users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without authorization. Warner Bros. seeks damages, return of profits, and an injunction. | Warner Bros. (Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny) | Image, Video | AI Insider |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Donald Trump used an AI-generated image parodying 'Apocalypse Now' to threaten Chicago, referencing his plan to bring in the National Guard. The image depicted a war zone with the Chicago skyline in the background. The message was posted on Truth Social and accompanied by threatening text. | Chicago | Image | UNILAD |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that Midjourney's AI allows users to generate images and videos of Warner Bros.' copyrighted characters. Warner Bros. claims Midjourney trained its AI on illegal copies and encourages users to create infringing content, leading to consumer confusion. | Warner Bros. Discovery (characters like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Bugs Bunny, Powerpuff Girls) | Image, Video | Indulge Express |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Older kids are beginning to use “undress” apps to create deepfake nudes of their peers. Some incidents have been reported in California and New Jersey. | Children | Image | Stanford HAI |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Trump shared an AI-generated image depicting himself against a fiery Chicago skyline, suggesting a crackdown on immigration. The post was captioned with a reference to deportations and plans to deploy federal forces and the National Guard. | Chicago immigrants | Image | Gamereactor UK |
| Sep 08, 2025 | ARN used an AI-generated host named 'Thy' on Sydney-based CADA station for six months without disclosing that it was an AI. The AI host's voice and likeness were based on a real ARN employee. Listeners were surveyed about their opinions on AI voices in radio after the reveal. | Listeners of CADA station | Audio | Mumbrella |
| Sep 07, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of AI impersonation scams, including deepfake videos, voice clones, and AI-written emails. It mentions a case where criminals faked the voice of WPP's CEO during a virtual meeting, a con artist cloned a grandson's voice to scam an elderly victim, and a school principal was falsely accused in an audio deepfake. | WPP (advertising giant), elderly victim, school principal in Baltimore | Video, Audio | Unite.AI |
| Sep 07, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting Chicago as a war zone, inspired by Apocalypse Now. The image shows the city skyline with helicopters and a beach covered in fire and smoke. The caption included a threatening message about bringing the National Guard to Chicago, referencing a plan to rebrand the Department of Defense and an altered quote from Apocalypse Now regarding deportations. | Chicago | Image | People.com |
| Sep 07, 2025 | AI generates a deepfake video of marital infidelity and delivers it to the soldier’s device to cause psychological distress and neutralize them. | Soldier and his spouse | Video | r/AirForce |
| Sep 07, 2025 | An AI-generated video showed President Traoré announcing a $14 billion grain deal with India and criticizing the United States and Donald Trump. The video was widely circulated on X (formerly Twitter) before being debunked. | Ibrahim Traoré, President of Burkina Faso | Video | ThePrint |
| Sep 07, 2025 | A 72-year-old homemaker in Hyderabad lost Rs 1.97 lakh to an AI voice cloning fraud. She received a WhatsApp message, seemingly from her sister-in-law, urgently requesting money. The voice on the other end sounded familiar, convincing her to transfer the money. Investigators believe fraudsters used AI to mimic her relative's voice. | 72-year-old homemaker in Hyderabad | Audio | The Indian Express |
| Sep 07, 2025 | AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from *Apocalypse Now*, with helicopters flying over the city and fire raging behind him, titled “Chipopalypse Now.” Trump threatened Chicago with “WAR” in a Truth Social post, renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War via an executive order. | Chicago | Image | The Daily Beast |
| Sep 06, 2025 | Warner Bros, Disney, and Universal have filed lawsuits against Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement for allowing users to create images and videos of their characters (Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Darth Vader, Bart Simpson, Shrek, and Ariel) without permission. The companies claim that Midjourney trained its AI service on copyrighted images and videos to offer users high-quality downloadable images of their characters. | Warner Bros, Disney, Universal Studios | Image, Video | Cryptopolitan |
| Sep 06, 2025 | Scammers are using AI-generated images of lost pets to demand reward money from their owners. The scammers contact people who have posted about their lost pets online, claiming to have found the animal and requesting payment for its return. They send AI-generated photos of the pet to appear legitimate. | Owners of lost pets in Guelph, Ont. and Guelph-Eramosa Township | Image | CBC |
| Sep 06, 2025 | Opponents of President Joe Biden cited AI-generated images of a displaced child clutching a puppy as evidence of the administration's purported mishandling of the disaster response during Hurricane Helene. | Joe Biden | Image | ScienceAlert |
| Sep 05, 2025 | The article describes two deepfake incidents. One is a deepfake interview for a senior engineering position at Pindrop where the applicant's facial expressions lagged behind his words. The second incident involved scammers posing as the CFO of Arup using an AI-generated video call to convince an employee to send $25 million to Hong Kong bank accounts. | Arup (engineering company) and Pindrop | Video, Audio | Pindrop |
| Sep 05, 2025 | AI company Fable Studio plans to use its AI platform Showrunner to generate footage to reconstruct lost scenes from the 1942 film 'The Magnificent Ambersons.' The Orson Welles estate has objected to this plan, stating they were not informed and that it is an attempt to generate publicity. | Orson Welles' 'The Magnificent Ambersons' | Video | Variety |
| Sep 05, 2025 | Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for allowing users to generate unauthorized content of its characters using AI image generation. The studio claims Midjourney built its model using illegal copies of Warner Bros. material and encouraged users to create infringing images and videos. | Warner Bros. and its characters (Superman, Bugs Bunny, Batman, Wonder Woman, Scooby-Doo, Powerpuff Girls) | Image, Video | CryptoRank |
| Sep 05, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of deepfake pornography and the actions being taken by Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark to combat it. It mentions that deepfake pornography makes up 98% of all deepfake videos online and is often targeted at girls and women. The article also provides an example of a deepfake of Taylor Swift being used to scam people. | Girls and Women, Taylor Swift (example) | Image, Video | WPTZ |
| Sep 05, 2025 | Scammers are using AI to create fake images and videos of athletes to trick fans into sending money. They create fake social media pages and impersonate players in comments and private messages, building relationships before asking for money. One woman lost $2,000 to someone impersonating Austin Riley. The scammers are often based overseas. | Sports fans, specifically fans of the Atlanta Braves | Image, Video | WTVM.com |
| Sep 04, 2025 | Explicit fake images were created and spread among peers. | Elliston Berry | Image | Biometric Update |
| Sep 04, 2025 | Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for generating unauthorized images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby-Doo. The lawsuit alleges that Midjourney generated images of copyrighted characters like Wonder Woman, Tweety, the Power Puff Girls, and Rick and Morty in response to prompts. Even without specific character mentions, Midjourney allegedly generated images of Superman, Batman, and Flash after the prompt, “classic comic book superhero battle.” | Warner Bros. Discovery | Image, Video | The Verge |
| Sep 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on X of him dancing with Cracker Barrel's 'old timer' character after the company reversed a logo change. This was in response to the company reverting to their original logo after customer feedback. | Cracker Barrel | Video | Fox Business |
| Sep 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted a video to X that showed him digitally inserted into Cracker Barrel’s classic logo. He also posted a spoof depicting Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie locked in a sumo wrestling match. | Cracker Barrel, JB Pritzker, Chris Christie | Video | New York Post |
| Sep 04, 2025 | An AI-generated image resembling Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murder, appeared on the Shein website modeling a shirt. The image was reportedly provided by a third-party vendor and was removed after it was discovered. Experts suggest the image is likely AI-generated based on lighting, skin texture, and anomalies. Shein is investigating the origin of the image. | Luigi Mangione | Image | PetaPixel |
| Sep 04, 2025 | A case study replicating the Brad Pitt audio deepfake scam, using transcript adversarial attacks to completely bypass commercial detectors. Minor linguistic changes in the transcript can dramatically increase a fake audio's detection probability as real, even if the altered wording is slightly unnatural or grammatically imperfect. | Brad Pitt | Audio | r/VocalSynthesis |
| Sep 03, 2025 | Deepfake candidates are infiltrating the hiring process, using AI-generated resumes and face-swapping in video interviews. Some IT workers with direct ties to North Korea have been hired unknowingly by U.S. firms, funneling money to Pyongyang. The main target are tech jobs, followed by marketing, design and finance. | HR Departments/Companies | Video | Biometric Update |
| Sep 03, 2025 | AI-generated videos used Dr. Sholas' face and voice to sell vitamins he never endorsed. The videos promoted a vitamin supplement with claims about deficiencies in Black people. The deepfakes were discovered in mid-August after a follower sent him a TikTok clip. Dr. Sholas reported the videos to TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms. TikTok removed the account. | Dr. Maurice Sholas | Video, Audio | WWLTV.com |
| Sep 03, 2025 | An AI-generated image showing flames approaching houses in Fort Providence circulated online shortly after the town was evacuated due to a nearby wildfire. N.W.T. Fire refuted the image, stating it did not reflect current conditions and called the post "sensationalized slop." | Fort Providence, N.W.T. residents | Image | CBC |
| Sep 02, 2025 | The article discusses various deepfake scams, including CEO fraud where a UK-based energy firm's CEO was duped into transferring €220,000 due to a voice mimicry of his German principal company’s chief executive in 2019. It also mentions a grandparent scam in Arizona and political disinformation in New Hampshire in early 2024. It also briefly talks about romance scams, celebrity endorsements, bypassing biometric security and impersonating law enforcement. | Various | Audio, Video | McAfee |
| Sep 02, 2025 | The article describes multiple deepfake scams and incidents, including CEO fraud where a UK-based energy firm was scammed out of €220,000 due to a deepfake voice mimicking the CEO. It also mentions a grandparent scam in Arizona, political disinformation in New Hampshire with a fake Biden robocall, romance scams using deepfake personas, fake celebrity endorsements featuring Taylor Swift, and bypassing biometric security. Government impersonation is also mentioned. | UK-based energy firm, Arizona mother, New Hampshire residents, lonely individuals on dating platforms, Taylor Swift's fans, financial account holders | Audio, Video | McAfee |
| Sep 02, 2025 | In 2019, a UK-based energy firm’s CEO was duped into transferring €220,000 to a Hungarian supplier after receiving a call from someone who perfectly mimicked the voice of his German principal company’s chief executive. The CEO reported he recognized his boss’s “slight German accent and his melody,” making the request seem completely legitimate. | UK-based energy firm's CEO | Audio | McAfee |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Will Smith posted a video on Instagram that appears to contain AI-generated people in the crowd. It is believed that about 40% of the video is generated, with real clips interspersed with fake crowd shots. The AI-generated portions are identifiable by unnatural movements and a 'mushy' quality, suggesting the clips were trimmed to avoid obvious artifacts. The goal was likely to pad out the video's runtime to fit Instagram's preferred length. | Will Smith | Video | VICE |
| Aug 27, 2025 | The article discusses Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday's efforts to combat the spread of deepfakes, particularly those targeting children. It mentions a "highly sophisticated deepfake scheme" on Google that allegedly steered a teenager toward suicide. Additionally, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is criticized for its policies regarding deepfake content, specifically whether deepfake video evidence should influence elections. | Teenagers | Video | The Daily Item |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A father used an AI-generated talking hamster video to tell his daughter that her hamster died after he accidentally killed it in the dishwasher. The AI video was created using Cantina AI, and the hamster says, 'Sorry I died! I went to explore what was inside the dishwasher and your dad didn’t see me. Cantina.' | Daughter of the hamster owner | Video | Times Now |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Will Smith released a promotional video on YouTube for his tour that contained AI-generated crowd footage. Viewers noticed warped faces, blurred features, unnaturally shaped hands, and other inconsistencies caused by AI. Fans criticized the use of AI and questioned why Smith's team would use AI instead of videographers. | Will Smith | Video, Image | HOT 97 |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A content creator from Oregon was threatened with the release of deepfake nude photos generated from her real photos. A man from Michigan used her real photos to generate naked photos that he then sent to her on social media. The man sent an entire album of nude AI-generated photos and threatened to release them and sexually assault her if she did not respond. In a separate incident, a Michigan man allegedly took photos of children posted on social media and used AI to create sexually explicit photos of these victims. | Content creator from Oregon, children | Image | FOX 2 Detroit |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Will Smith is accused of posting AI-generated images and videos of crowds in his tour promotional material on Instagram. The videos and images show distorted faces, extra fingers, hands, and limbs, with unnatural crowd movement. | Will Smith | Video, Image | Thred Website |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A Facebook page called, “DSWD TV,” posted a pseudo-newscast narrated by a male anchor, linking to an external site listing supposed post-vaccine diseases. The newscast is AI-generated with a faint “Veo” watermark. Google Veo is a text-to-video AI generator that can create narrated clips from prompts, showing that the reel was likely machine-produced rather than an actual news broadcast. | General Public | Video | Rappler |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Will Smith is accused of using AI to generate cheering crowds in promotional videos for his rap comeback. Viewers noticed glitches and uniform motions in the footage posted to Smith's YouTube channel, suggesting the audiences were synthetically created. Smith's representatives have not commented on the allegations. | Will Smith | Video | Fortune |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A promotional video posted by Will Smith for his tour is being criticized for allegedly containing AI-generated crowd footage. Fans have pointed out visual glitches and distortions in the video, leading to speculation that AI was used to create or enhance the crowd scenes. The video was posted on Instagram. | Will Smith | Video | The Tab |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Offensive AI-generated videos of Emperor Hirohito circulating on Chinese platforms, sparking controversy and diplomatic concern. Japan has lodged a protest. | Emperor Hirohito | Video | Chosun Biz |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A woman was scammed out of $80,000 using a deepfake video of actor Steve Burton. Experts believe AI was used to clone Burton's voice and image. | A woman in South Los Angeles | Video | ABC7 Los Angeles |
| Aug 27, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created in the style of illustrator Jason Seiler, including a fake signature. The AI learned Seiler's style and signature, and the resulting image was circulated online, causing concern about copyright infringement and the impact of AI on artists' livelihoods. | Jason Seiler | Image | ABC7 Chicago |
| Aug 27, 2025 | YouTube admitted to digitally polishing creators’ Shorts without their knowledge using machine learning enhancements to improve clarity. This was done without the creator's consent, leading to creators feeling their work was altered and their creative ownership undermined. An opt-out was promised after public pressure. | YouTube Content Creators | Video | TechRadar |
| Aug 27, 2025 | A YouTube video shared by Will Smith promoting his tour appears to use AI-generated crowds. Commenters noticed distorted faces, hands, and misspelled signs in the video. For example, one sign saying "'You Can Make It' helped me survive cancer. Thx Will" appeared to have a fan with a cartoony frown and shiny smooth skin common in AI-generated videos. | Will Smith | Video | Mashable |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Jorge Abrego, a gun store owner, created deepfake nude photos and videos of a TikTok influencer using artificial intelligence. He created fake TikTok accounts impersonating her and posted the deepfakes on those accounts. The deepfakes included images altered to make it look like the victim was engaged in sex acts. Abrego admitted to creating the deepfakes and fake accounts, stating he was in love with her and wanted to date her. | TikTok influencer | Image, Video | ABC13 Houston |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Viewers have accused Will Smith of using AI to inflate the audience in a concert video on his YouTube channel. Some concertgoers appear to be AI-generated with unnatural features and contorted faces. One scene shows fans holding a sign with unnatural appearances. | Will Smith | Video | HOLA |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Viewers suspect AI was used to generate crowds in a promotional video for Will Smith's concert tour. Some crowd members appear to have blurry faces and extra appendages, indicating AI generation. CNET reached out to Smith's talent agency for comment but did not receive a response. | Will Smith's concert tour promotion video | Video | GovTech |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Security researchers used hidden text in high-resolution images to hack Google Calendar. By exploiting image scaling systems used by AI like Gemini, they sent hidden instructions to retrieve information from a Google Calendar account and email it to themselves without alerting the user. The image uploaded to Gemini has sections of a black background that turn red during the resampling process. This causes hidden text with instructions to appear when the image is rescaled, which the chatbot will see and follow. | Google Calendar users | Image | bgr.com |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Male teenagers used AI software to create sexually explicit images of their female classmates. None of the boys were charged with a crime. | Female classmates in Westfield, NJ | Image | New Jersey 101.5 |
| Aug 26, 2025 | A Houston business owner, Jorge Abrego, was arrested for creating fake TikTok accounts impersonating an influencer. He allegedly created AI-generated nude images and videos of the victim in sexual situations, causing her financial loss and reputational damage. Investigators tracked the fake accounts to Abrego. | Houston-based online influencer | Image, Video | Click2Houston |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Fans suspect that Will Smith's concert footage shared on Instagram contains AI-generated crowd elements due to robotic movements, distorted features, bizarre signs held by audience members, and pixelated faces. | Will Smith | Video | UNILAD |
| Aug 26, 2025 | A video surfaced on social media allegedly depicting Bishop Bayemi making sexually inappropriate suggestions to a woman. The video was assessed by local church leaders to be AI-generated with the intention of tarnishing his image. The video shows the priest first in cassock and then in casual shirt. | Bishop Sosthène Bayemi | Video | Catholic Review |
| Aug 26, 2025 | AI-generated deepnudes, created using "Undress AI" tools, are being used for malicious purposes like sextortion, cyberbullying, and revenge porn. There was a 2000% increase in spam links promoting these services in 2023. | Minors, particularly female children | Image | AInvest |
| Aug 26, 2025 | YouTube ran an experiment using machine learning on select Shorts to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity, resulting in unwanted alterations to video appearance. Musician Rick Beato noticed changes in his YouTube videos, saying his "hair looks strange" and it seemed like he was "wearing makeup." Rhett Shull observed the same, stating the AI enhancements, targeting some Shorts, made the videos look sharper, but not in a good way. Skin appeared more defined or smoother, wrinkles were more prominent, and ears seemed warped. | Rick Beato, Rhett Shull and potentially other YouTube content creators | Video | 80 Level |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Will Smith is accused of using AI-generated crowds at his tour events. Technical glitches in the pictures of his tour are evident. Some social media users have pointed out distorted faces, blurred limbs, and extra digits in the audience, suggesting the use of AI. | Will Smith | Image | Masala.com |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Will Smith is accused of posting a concert video on his official YouTube channel that features AI-generated footage of fans cheering. Social media users pointed out visual errors in the clip, such as blurred faces, oddly shaped hands with six fingers, a sign that reads 'FR6SH CRINCE,' a man's knuckle blurring along with his sign, and a woman's headband appearing over another woman's wrist. | Will Smith | Video | Daily Mail |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Will Smith posted a video from his tour, suspected of containing AI-generated images of fans in the audience. The video footage shows inconsistencies in the crowd, such as distorted faces and warped cell phones, leading viewers to believe AI was used to generate or augment the audience. Some suggest image upscaling may have caused the distortions. | Will Smith | Video, Image | Complex |
| Aug 26, 2025 | AI-generated robocalls made threats towards an unspecified Kankakee school and toward Bradley East Elementary School. The caller told a dispatcher “they were being forced to make the threats, and some other (incoherent) verbiage before disconnecting. | Kankakee school and Bradley East Elementary School | Audio | NBC 5 Chicago |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Researchers at Trail of Bits developed an attack that injects malicious prompts in images. When users upload images, these are downscaled which reveals hidden text in the image, which the AI model interprets as user instructions. This can lead to data leakage. They were able to exfiltrate Google Calendar data in an example. | Google Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio (with Gemini backend), Gemini's web interface, Gemini's API via the llm CLI, Google Assistant on an Android phone, Genspark | Image | BleepingComputer |
| Aug 25, 2025 | A creator known as Ghostwriter977 uploaded the song “Heart on My Sleeve”. The track used AI to generate vocals that imitated Drake and The Weeknd. It amassed 600,000 streams on Spotify, 15 million views on TikTok and 275,000 views on YouTube before streaming services removed it. | Drake and The Weeknd | Audio | side-line.com |
| Aug 25, 2025 | YouTube is experimenting with automatic video enhancements on Shorts using machine learning to sharpen footage, reduce blur, and improve clarity, which some creators believe alters their work without consent, damages their reputation, and misrepresents them due to the AI-generated look. | YouTube Content Creators (Rick Beato, Rhett Shull) | Video | Interesting Engineering |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Chris Cuomo reposted a deepfake video of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that was labeled as AI, but still tricked him. Ocasio-Cortez responded on X, reiterating that the video was a deepfake. Cuomo acknowledged his error and deleted the post. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Video | WOWT |
| Aug 25, 2025 | ScotRail used an AI voice named 'Iona' trained on recordings of Gayanne Potter's voice without her consent. Potter says she was surprised to hear a "dreadful" robotic version of herself. The AI voice was used to make announcements on trains, replacing pre-recorded human announcements. Potter believed her voice recordings would be used for accessibility and e-learning software rather than for commercial purposes. | Gayanne Potter | Audio | BBC |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Will Smith is being accused of using AI to generate images of fans in a new video of his tour. The clip shows packed crowds at the gigs, with fans holding signs and cheering for the rapper as he walks along the barricade. Some shots show audience members, many of whom are crying, with blurred or distorted faces, while others appear to have oddly shaped hands or excess fingers. | Will Smith | Image | NME |
| Aug 24, 2025 | ScotRail used an AI voice announcer named 'Iona' based on the voice of voiceover actress Gayanne Potter without her permission. The voice data was obtained from a recording in 2021 by ReadSpeaker, who then used it to create a text-to-speech program. Potter only realized her voice data was used when she read press reports. ScotRail is now taking steps to remove the AI voice. | Gayanne Potter | Audio | The Scottish Sun |
| Aug 24, 2025 | YouTube secretly used AI to enhance videos on YouTube Shorts without user consent. The AI adjustments included sharpening skin and defining wrinkles, which some creators felt misrepresented them and eroded trust with their audience. YouTube confirmed they are running an experiment that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise and improve clarity in videos during processing. | YouTube content creators (Rick Beato, Rhett Shull, others) | Video | BBC |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Musicians like Emily Portman, Josh Kaufman and even dead musicians like Blaze Foley had AI-generated music falsely released under their names on platforms like Spotify and iTunes. The AI-generated music was trained to mimic the artist's style. Copyright complaints were filed to get the albums taken down. | Emily Portman, Josh Kaufman, Blaze Foley | Audio | BBC |
| Aug 22, 2025 | At DEF CON 33, an audio engineer demonstrated how air traffic controller voices can be cloned, potentially leading to dangerous instructions issued to pilots, such as instructing an aircraft to cross an active runway improperly. | Air traffic controllers and pilots | Audio | Aviation International News |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Deepfake videos used Bishop Barron's likeness to create false stories. Amy Klobuchar was also a target of a deepfake video that made it appear as though she was criticizing actress Sydney Sweeney. Another incident involved someone pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio. | Bishop Robert Barron, Amy Klobuchar | Video | inforum.com |
| Aug 22, 2025 | AI-generated audio of Donald Trump Jr. endorsing Russia against Ukraine went viral. | Donald Trump Jr. | Audio | autogpt.net |
| Aug 22, 2025 | A freelancer writer, Margaux Blanchard, is suspected of being an AI creation after several publications noticed inconsistencies and odd payment requests. At least four periodicals removed AI-written articles credited to the fictional Blanchard. Wired removed an article titled 'They Fell in Love Playing Minecraft. Then the Game Became Their Wedding Venue.' Business Insider removed two pieces. AI detection tools provided initial conflicting reports, but further investigation revealed the fabrication. | Wired, Business Insider, Index on Censorship, Naked Politics | MediaPost | |
| Aug 21, 2025 | A deepfake video was created featuring Senator Amy Klobuchar criticizing Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad campaign. The audio and tone resembled Klobuchar, but the words were not hers. Klobuchar has accused X (formerly Twitter) of not taking down the deepfake video quickly enough, even though their policy prohibits manipulated media. The video was described as a 'vulgar and absurd critique.' | Amy Klobuchar | Audio, Video | USA Today |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Deepfake pornography featuring the Princess's face edited onto pornographic actors' bodies circulated online. The FBI and Dutch authorities intervened to remove the websites hosting the content. Nearly 70 other Dutch women were also featured in similar content. | Dutch Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia | Video | Mint |
| Aug 21, 2025 | An employee at a multinational company in Hong Kong was tricked into transferring $25.6 million during a deepfaked video conference. Every individual on the call, including someone who appeared to be the company’s chief financial officer, was a computer-generated impostor. | Multinational company in Hong Kong | Video | Manufacturing Business Technology |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Ethan Tanner Fagan was sentenced to 90 years for possession and production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including AI-generated images depicting CSAM. The AI images depicted actual, identified children and adults from Clark County and surrounding communities. The investigation was conducted by the Arkansas State Police (ASP) ICAC Task Force, with assistance from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). | Actual, identified children and adults from Clark County and surrounding communities | Image | Southwest Arkansas Radio |
| Aug 21, 2025 | AI was used to simulate Senator Klobuchar's voice to make a vulgar and absurd critique of a controversial American Eagle jeans ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. The deepfake video was posted on X and included elements from a July 30 Senate hearing. Another incident mentioned involves an imposter using AI to mimic the voice of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers, a member of Congress and a governor. | Amy Klobuchar | Audio | CBS News |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Wired, Business Insider, and Index on Censorship removed articles published by Margaux Blanchard due to concerns the content was AI-generated and potentially fictional, including unverifiable case studies and quotes. Several other publications published questionable articles by the same person. | Wired, Business Insider, Index on Censorship, named people in articles | Talking Biz News | |
| Aug 21, 2025 | A deepfake video circulating on social media platforms depicts Jon Stewart criticizing Donald Trump's tariff threat against India. The video, shared on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, has garnered millions of views, with many viewers treating it as genuine commentary. Clues such as Stewart's missing moustache, artificial facial appearance, and timeline discrepancies suggest the video's inauthenticity. The origin and purpose of the deepfake are unknown. | Donald Trump | Video | LateNighter |
| Aug 21, 2025 | An Ohio man was scammed by a deepfake video of Jelly Roll that claimed he'd won a $50,000 car. He was tricked into sending $70 in Apple gift cards for 'shipping'. The deepfake used AI to impersonate Jelly Roll. The scam was detected when someone noticed the driver's license in the video read 'Jolly Roll' instead of 'Jelly Roll'. | Ohio man | Video | 102.9 The Buzz |
| Aug 21, 2025 | The article describes several instances of voice cloning being used for scams and misinformation. These include scammers impersonating a young woman to deceive her mother, CEO impersonations leading to financial losses, and deepfake audio attributed to political figures. | Various individuals and organizations | Audio | Techgenyz |
| Aug 21, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring Romanian President Nicușor Dan is being used in an online scam to promote fake investment opportunities promising miraculous profits. The campaign relies on manipulated video materials designed to exploit emotions and trick victims into disclosing personal information and transferring money to attackers. | Nicușor Dan, Romanian President | Video | Romania Insider |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Deepfake pornographic videos of Princess Catharina-Amalia were circulated on MrDeepFakes and similar sites. This is the second time she has been targeted. The FBI and Dutch authorities worked together to take down the websites hosting the videos. | Princess Catharina-Amalia | Video | The Economic Times |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Dakota D. Campbell was arrested on eight counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor for possession of actual and AI-generated images and videos of minors engaging in sexually explicit acts. The investigation found more than 100 actual and AI generated images and anime of child pornography. | Minors | Image, Video | The Daily Times |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Delhi BJP MLA Harish Khurana shared an AI-generated photo purporting to show a connection between the attacker of Delhi CM and AAP Gujarat leader Gopal Italia. AAP claims the photo is fake and intended to defame Arvind Kejriwal. | Arvind Kejriwal, Gopal Italia | Image | The Times of India |
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI-generated fake photos and videos claiming to show Hurricane Erin and North Carolina’s coast are spreading online. They're designed to drive traffic, scam people out of money, and create confusion. The deepfakes include images and videos depicting storm damage and flooding. One fake video showed a WRAL news truck with unrealistic water behavior. | Residents of North Carolina | Image, Video | WRAL.com |
| Aug 20, 2025 | A man was charged with distributing AI-generated nude images in a Telegram chat room. The court acquitted him because the images may be AI-generated and fictional, with no identifiable victim. The target was an unidentifiable AI generated person. | Unidentifiable woman | Image | 동아일보 |
| Aug 20, 2025 | An AI-generated video appeared to show Senator Amy Klobuchar making outrageous statements, including offensive language and referencing a controversial American Eagle ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney. Klobuchar contacted social media platforms to remove the video. | Amy Klobuchar | Video | New York Post |
| Aug 20, 2025 | The article discusses deepfake voice phishing and includes two examples: one where a CEO was scammed out of $243,000 after believing he was talking to his boss, and another where a Hong Kong merchant lost $18.5 million in cryptocurrency after being impersonated by a financial manager over WhatsApp. | CEO of UK energy company; Hong Kong merchant | Audio | CNA |
| Aug 20, 2025 | A Facebook page named "Joemar Sombero" with 45,000 followers posted AI-generated images of wildfires in British Columbia, Canada, and other natural disasters (earthquake in Algeria, flooding in Dare County, North Carolina). The images were designed to dramatize the events and generate engagement, potentially causing unnecessary fear and interfering with wildfire suppression efforts. The AI images misrepresent terrain, fire size and fire behavior. | General public in areas affected by wildfires and natural disasters | Image | Canada's National Observer |
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI-generated photos depicting Blueface doing the splits in prison went viral. Blueface's mother confirmed the images were AI-generated. The photos were seemingly inspired by recent images Blueface shared from prison. | Blueface | Image | yahoo.com |
| Aug 20, 2025 | California Governor Gavin Newsom's social media account posted a tweet featuring an AI-generated image of Kid Rock dressed as Uncle Sam with the caption, “Kid Rock Wants YOU to Support Gavin Newsom.” Kid Rock responded, disavowing support. Newsom then tweeted "I HATE KID ROCK !!!" | Kid Rock | Image | Consequence of Sound |
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI-generated videos impersonating Bishop Barron have been circulating, with one video falsely depicting an altercation at a Chicago restaurant and another claiming Pope Leo summoned him to Rome. One video even featured him giving advice on removing demons from toilets. Bishop Barron has warned followers about the deepfakes, noting they are created for profit and are damaging to his reputation. | Bishop Robert Barron | Video | CatholicVote org |
| Aug 20, 2025 | A deepfake video reworked Amy Klobuchar’s voice to say vulgar things about Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad. The actual footage was from a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on data privacy. Klobuchar tried to get the video removed or labeled as “digitally altered content,” but X refused. TikTok removed the video and Meta labeled it as AI. | Amy Klobuchar | Video, Audio | TheWrap |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Producer Vijay Subramaniam produced an AI-generated film called 'Chiranjeevi Hanuman - The Eternal'. Anurag Kashyap criticized Subramaniam, viewing it as a dangerous future for Hindi cinema and accusing him of believing AI outperforms artists. Vikramaditya Motwane also criticized the film, questioning the need for writers and directors when it's "Made in AI". | Hindi film industry artists | Image | The Hindu |
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI-generated image depicting European leaders waiting in a White House corridor was circulated online. The image contained visual inconsistencies and inaccuracies in clothing compared to genuine photos from the event. | Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni | Image | Full Fact |
| Aug 20, 2025 | The upcoming anime adaptation of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, is being accused of using AI-generated art. A frame from the trailer shows a character with an unusual number of fingers, suggesting the use of AI. The studio's website proclaims it's bringing about digital disruption in the anime industry using AI. | Sekiro: No Defeat anime | Image | TheGamer |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Viral photos circulated online showing rapper Blueface in an exaggerated split pose in prison. His mother claims the photos are AI-generated fakes and don't resemble her son, stating the pose was digitally created. | Blueface | Image | primetimer.com |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Dakota Campbell, 21, was arrested for possessing over 100 AI-generated images of child pornography. The Blount County Sheriff's Office charged Campbell with eight counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. | Children | Image | WBIR |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Anurag Kashyap criticized Vijay Subramaniam over an AI-generated film, calling him out publicly on Instagram with the message '# Shame is not enough on you'. | Vijay Subramaniam | Image, Video | Deccan Herald |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Mitek's Digital Fraud Defender identified more than 3,000 injection attacks in a targeted phishing campaign and maintained a 99 percent pass rate while filtering out deepfake images during biometric verification. | Unspecified financial institutions targeted by phishing campaign. | Image | r/Quantisnow |
| Aug 20, 2025 | A content creator, DanieltheDemon, claims their likeness was used without permission in AI-generated TikTok ads for the game 'The First Descendant'. Nexon is investigating the possible misuse of submitted materials to their TikTok Creative Challenge. | DanieltheDemon (content creator) | Video | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Aug 20, 2025 | A finance employee at Arup was tricked into transferring $25 million after joining a video call with what appeared to be the CFO and colleagues. Everyone on the video call, allegedly the CFO and colleagues, was a deepfake. Attackers used publicly available media to create convincing replicas. | Arup, a global engineering firm | Video | r/Cybersecurity_advices |
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI voice cloning (vishing) used to impersonate a senior-level person to hack Qantas and to impersonate a company director to transfer $35 million. | Qantas; Company branch manager | Audio | CyberShack |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Callum Brooks created deepfake naked images of a woman he knew in high school using AI and sent them to his friends. He took two fully clothed images of the woman from her Instagram and altered them to show her in a state of undress. | Woman from high school | Image | AOL.com |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Callum Brooks used AI to create deepfake naked images of a woman he knew from high school. He altered two of her social media photos to depict her in a state of undress and sent them to two of his friends. The victim was unaware and became humiliated when she found out about the images. | Woman from high school | Image | BBC |
| Aug 19, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created and spread online, supposedly showing world leaders waiting at the White House for Donald Trump. The BBC debunked the image and tracked its spread. | Donald Trump | Image | BBC |
| Aug 19, 2025 | An Ohio resident, Ronnie Flint, was scammed by a deepfake video that he believed featured country singer Jelly Roll. Flint received a message claiming he won a new car from Jelly Roll but needed to pay for shipping. To further convince Flint, the scammers used AI to create a second video where the fake Jelly Roll said Flint's full name. They also sent a picture of a fake driver's license with the name Jolly Roll. Flint sent the scammers a $70 Apple gift card before his family intervened. | Ronnie Flint | Video, Image | American Songwriter |
| Aug 19, 2025 | AI-generated images and videos related to Hurricane Erin are being spread on social media, showing misleading and humorous situations such as horses being evacuated in semi-trucks, cars being airlifted by helicopters, and families burying themselves in the beach. The images and videos are intended to make light of a serious situation, and could cause tourists and those unfamiliar with hurricanes to take the images at face value. | Residents of Hyde and Dare counties, tourists in North Carolina | Image, Video | WRAL.com |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Gavin Newsom posted an AI-generated image depicting Kid Rock, Tucker Carlson and Hulk Hogan supporting him, despite their actual political views. Kid Rock responded negatively. | Kid Rock, Tucker Carlson, Hulk Hogan | Image | TMZ |
| Aug 19, 2025 | An expert witness for an internet trade group allegedly submitted AI-generated fabrications, including fabricated quotes and bogus legal citations, in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's age-verification law. | Louisiana's age-verification law | Law.com | |
| Aug 19, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting monkeys feasting in an orderly manner at the Sree Dharma Sastha Temple in Kerala was circulated online. It falsely purported to show the temple's 'Vanara Sadya' tradition. AI detection platforms confirmed the image was artificially generated due to discrepancies like blurred backgrounds and unclear facial features. | Sree Dharma Sastha Temple in Sasthamkotta, Kerala | Image | The Quint |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are being used to promote fake investment platforms on Facebook. The videos falsely show her endorsing schemes promising high returns. The PIB Fact Check team has identified these videos as fake and part of a scam. | Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister of India | Video | Storyboard18 |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Kai Jon was charged with six felony counts of possession of virtual child pornography after possessing six AI generated images of graphic sexual acts involving babies. Steven Anderegg was arrested for using AI to create thousands of images of minors by using sexually explicit text prompts. | children | Image | WPR |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Nexon used AI-generated avatars in TikTok ads for 'The First Descendant' that mimicked real content creators, specifically resembling streamer DanieltheDemon. The ads featured unnatural expressions and awkward speech, sparking backlash for potentially undermining creators and raising ethical concerns about likeness rights. | DanieltheDemon (streamer) | Video | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Aug 19, 2025 | The First Descendant used a deepfake of DanieltheDemon without his consent in a TikTok ad. The ad used AI to change his mouth movements and words in his most viral video. The game developer, Nexon, claims the video was submitted by a third party through TikTok's Creative Challenge program. | DanieltheDemon | Video | Mashable |
| Aug 18, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicted EU leaders waiting to meet with Donald Trump at the White House. The image contained inconsistencies, and was labeled as fake. It was allegedly created and disseminated by Russian propaganda networks to discredit European leaders and undermine negotiations related to the Russia-Ukraine war. | European Union leaders, specifically French President Emmanuel Macron | Image | News18 |
| Aug 18, 2025 | A fake video news broadcast claimed that Neil Finn, the frontman of Crowded House, had fathered a new child at 67 after experiencing erectile dysfunction. The band had to release a statement denying the false story. | Neil Finn (Crowded House) | Video | Ultimate Classic Rock |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Nexon, a game publisher, ran a TikTok ad campaign for 'The First Descendant' using AI-generated influencers instead of real streamers. The AI-generated videos featured anonymous streamers promoting the game's new season. At least one video was obviously based on streamer DanieltheDemon. Nexon is investigating the 'irregularities' with TikTok. | DanieltheDemon and other anonymous streamers | Video | PC Gamer |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Nexon is investigating TikTok marketing for *The First Descendant* after players found ads featuring AI-generated streamers promoting the game. Streamer DanieltheDemon stated that his face/reactions were stolen from his viral video and used with AI to change his mouth movements and voice without his consent. | DanieltheDemon | Video | Rock Paper Shotgun |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Scammers are using AI to impersonate Sir Billy Connolly online, creating deceptive social media and email accounts. They are using his likeness and voice to solicit direct messaging, money, or personal information from fans. His wife, Pamela Stephenson, has also been targeted. They create multiple deceptive social media and email accounts, and there could well be criminal intent. Cloning technology is used to replicate his voice, and deepfake images are employed in scams. | Sir Billy Connolly's fans and supporters | Audio, Image | Sky News |
| Aug 18, 2025 | The First Descendant game is accused of using AI-generated ads that mimic real people, including streamer DanieltheDemon. The ads allegedly clone his likeness and voice without consent, using AI img2vid technology. Other ads are suspected of being fully AI-generated with awkward lip-syncing, unnatural voices, and smooth surfaces. | DanieltheDemon | Video, Audio | GosuGamers |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Threat actors deepfaked an entire video web conference, impersonating a prominent CFO and other meeting participants to social engineer the victim into transferring $25.6 million dollars into five different Hong Kong bank accounts. | Hong Kong company | Video | The Hacker News |
| Aug 17, 2025 | AI-generated books are being sold on Amazon, misusing the identity of Eric Topol. Scammers are selling fake cookbooks and health books under Topol's name and image without his consent. Buyers are misled into purchasing low-quality, AI-generated content, trusting Topol's reputation. Amazon has been unresponsive to takedown requests. | Eric Topol | Image | the-decoder.com |
| Aug 17, 2025 | Qantas fell victim to an AI-powered ‘vishing’ attack that compromised the personal data of up to six million customers. | Qantas (mention only, not detail of damage/attack) | Audio | Industrial Cyber |
| Aug 17, 2025 | Deepfakes were used to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and President Joe Biden. The Rubio deepfake attempted to contact foreign ministers, a U.S. senator, and a governor. The Biden deepfake was used in robocalls to discourage Democratic voters in New Hampshire from voting in the primary. Deepfakes are used in corporate espionage to impersonate CEOs asking employees to hand over passwords or routing numbers. Deepfakes can also allow scammers to apply for jobs and do them under an assumed or fake identity. North Koreans with information technology skills have been dispatched to live abroad, using stolen identities to obtain jobs at tech firms in the U.S. | Marco Rubio, Susie Wiles, Joe Biden, Democratic voters in New Hampshire, financial industry, US tech firms | Audio, Video | TelegraphHerald.com |
| Aug 17, 2025 | AI-generated books imitating autobiographies of sports figures were created and sold on Amazon. The books were similar in style to the original autobiographies and were sold without clear warnings to consumers about their AI-generated nature. Steph Houghton, Neil Ruddock and Khalida Popal's autobiographies were imitated. | Steph Houghton, Neil Ruddock, Khalida Popal | Sky News | |
| Aug 16, 2025 | Ronnie Flint was scammed by a deepfake video impersonating Jelly Roll on Facebook. The deepfake promised prizes and requested gift cards for shipping costs. Flint sent $70 in Apple gift cards before realizing it was a scam. | Ronnie Flint | Video | Complex |
| Aug 16, 2025 | A lawyer in Australia filed submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence. The fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and nonexistent case citations purportedly from the Supreme Court. The errors were discovered by the judge's associates, who couldn’t find the cases and requested that defense lawyers provide copies. The lawyers admitted the citations “do not exist” and that the submission contained “fictitious quotes”. | Justice system | KHOU | |
| Aug 16, 2025 | Falsified audio recordings portrayed John Waldron making racist remarks. The Black Wall Street Times ran it and did a retraction proving exactly how it was done. The software they used proved that the audio fake was 95 to 99 percent synthetic. | John Waldron | Audio | KTUL |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Ethan Tanner Fagan was sentenced to 90 years in prison for possessing, producing, and promoting AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting local children and adult women. He was arrested on April 27, 2024, following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The images included acquaintances and individuals from Clark County and surrounding areas. | Local children and adult women from Clark County, Arkansas, and surrounding areas | Image | Arkansas Times |
| Aug 15, 2025 | AI-generated images of wildfires were circulated on social media, exaggerating or downplaying the scale and intensity of active fires in British Columbia. The BCWS warned that these images could mislead people during emergencies and affect evacuation decisions and public safety. The images did not accurately represent the terrain, fire size, or fire behavior. | Public, BCWS | Image | PetaPixel |
| Aug 15, 2025 | An Arizona federal court sanctioned attorney Maren Bam after finding that her brief contained multiple artificial intelligence-generated citations to non-existent cases. The sanctions include revocation of pro hac vice status, striking the brief, and mandatory notification to state bar authorities. | Maren Bam | PPC Land | |
| Aug 15, 2025 | OAN used AI-generated images of female soldiers, apparently generated using Grok, during a segment about female military recruitment. The DOD denied providing the images. OAN admitted policy violations and issued an on-air correction. Matt Gaetz apologized. | US Department of Defense, female soldiers | Image | CNN |
| Aug 15, 2025 | OAN used AI-generated images, reportedly created by Grok, of women soldiers during a segment about female military recruitment. The images accompanied claims about increased female recruitment under the Trump administration. OAN later admitted the use of AI-generated images violated company policy and issued an on-air correction. Matt Gaetz apologized for the error. | Female military recruits/Department of Defense | Image | CNN |
| Aug 15, 2025 | AI-generated videos using real images and AI voice-overs narrate fabricated scenarios involving celebrities, often portraying them in conflict with left-leaning talk show hosts. These "cheapfakes" are designed to provoke outrage and engagement, targeting audiences who are likely to believe the narratives. The article mentions one specific fabricated scenario involving Mark Wahlberg on "The View." Denzel Washington confirms AI is used to impersonate him and that social media accounts using his likeness are fake. | Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Clint Eastwood, Keanu Reeves, and others | Audio, Image | WIRED |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Matt Gaetz (OAN) apologized for using AI-generated fakes of women soldiers in a female military recruitment segment. | Women soldiers, military recruitment | Image | The Independent |
| Aug 15, 2025 | An Australian lawyer filed submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by AI. The lawyer took full responsibility for filing incorrect information in submissions in the case of a teenager charged with murder. The AI-generated errors caused a 24-hour delay in resolving the case. | Australian Court System | The Seattle Times | |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Deepfake videos impersonating real doctors, including Dr. Joel Bervell, are being used to promote false medical advice and treatments on social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. The videos feature fictitious doctors giving advice or selling products, primarily related to beauty, wellness, and weight loss. One video claimed a product was '96% more effective than Ozempic.' Cybersecurity company ESET spotted over 20 accounts on TikTok and Instagram using AI-generated doctors to promote products. | Dr. Joel Bervell | Video | CBS News |
| Aug 14, 2025 | AI voice cloning tools are being used to impersonate individuals, often targeting the elderly with scams involving impersonating relatives in need. There was also an incident where someone impersonated Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The FTC is being urged to investigate and hold accountable companies that facilitate voice-cloning scams. | U.S. consumers, elderly, Marco Rubio | Audio | Biometric Update |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Sexually explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift circulated online. | Taylor Swift | Image | MLive.com |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta aired an interview with an AI avatar of Joaquin Oliver, a deceased student from the Parkland school shooting. The avatar was created by Joaquin's father using AI and was interviewed on what would have been his twenty-fifth birthday. The AI spoke in a flat voice and expressed opinions on gun control, mental health support, and community engagement. | Joaquin Oliver (deceased) | Video | breakpoint.org |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Someone impersonated Secretary of State Marco Rubio using AI voice cloning. | Marco Rubio | Audio | Consumers Union |
| Aug 11, 2025 | The article discusses the increasing prevalence of deepfakes and their potential for fraud, including political figures being misrepresented and obscene deepfakes of Taylor Swift being created by X's Grok AI. It highlights the dangers of synthetic media and the challenges they pose to truth, evidence, and accountability. | Taylor Swift, political figures | Image, Audio, Video | Biometric Update |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Lynette Adams, a News10NBC morning anchor, received a phone call from someone impersonating her daughter, claiming to have been in a car accident. The scammer used voice cloning technology to mimic her daughter's voice. The call came from her daughter’s phone number and sounded just like her. | Lynette Adams' daughter | Audio | WHEC.com |
| Aug 11, 2025 | AI-generated photos of Pope Francis wearing a white Balenciaga puffer jacket were shared widely, forcing the Pope and the Vatican City to comment publicly on the dangers of AI-generated deepfakes and how they can distort reality. | Pope Francis and the Vatican City | Image | Tech Xplore |
| Aug 11, 2025 | AI-generated images of rock stars in fabricated scenarios are circulating online, fooling some viewers. These images depict scenarios such as Steven Tyler building a doghouse, Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Rod Stewart harmonizing at Ozzy Osbourne’s memorial service, and Bruce Springsteen treating health care workers to a rendition of "If I Should Fall Behind." Other examples include Collins rescued a missing child at an airport, Springsteen bought a diner to give out free food to the homeless, Adele and Adam Lambert sang together at Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s memorial service, Tyler and Taylor Swift serenaded Queen Camilla with “Happy Birthday”, and Bob Dylan paid Collins a hospital visit and brought Dick Van Dyke an early 100th birthday cake. An AI image of Aerosmith’s Tyler paying Nelson a bedside visit in a hospital resulted in comments like, “Prayers to Willie and that was nice on Steven going to see him.” A supposed image of Jimmy Page pushing his former bandmate Robert Plant in a wheelchair elicited skeptical and admiring comments. | Steven Tyler, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, Adele, Adam Lambert, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Taylor Swift, Queen Camilla, Bob Dylan, Dick Van Dyke, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant | Image | Rolling Stone |
| Aug 11, 2025 | An AI generated song titled 'Devil in Her Eyes' was released and falsely attributed to Eminem, Post Malone, and Jelly Roll. Many listeners were initially deceived into thinking the song was legitimate, leading to confusion and increased search queries for the track by those artists. | Eminem, Post Malone, Jelly Roll | Audio | Holler Country Music |
| Aug 11, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of deepfakes and the challenges of detecting them. It mentions a deepfake video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a fraud campaign using AI-generated voices of US politicians to trick people into handing over access to government systems. | US Politicians, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Video, Audio | theregister.com |
| Aug 11, 2025 | FBI warned about fraud campaign using AI-generated voices of US politicians to trick people into handing over access to government systems to extract financial information. | US politicians | Audio | theregister.com |
| Aug 11, 2025 | An AI-generated video showing a massive pro-Palestine rally was shared online, falsely claiming it depicted a real demonstration in Japan. The video, identified as AI-generated by SynthID and Hive, showed inconsistencies like illogical crowd distribution and was traced back to a TikTok account specializing in AI-generated content. While real pro-Palestine protests have occurred in Japan, this specific video is unrelated and misleading. | Pro-Palestine rally in Japan | Video | FACTLY |
| Aug 11, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting daughters of Thai soldiers killed in a border clash were spread online after a Thai university offered scholarships to the kin of the soldiers. The images contained visual anomalies, such as unreadable name tags and a mismatched flag, indicating they were created using AI. The images were shared on various social media platforms. | Daughters of Thai soldiers killed in border clash | Image | Yahoo News Malaysia |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Scammers are using AI-generated avatars to apply for jobs and infiltrate companies. At Vidoc Security Lab, the CTO suspected a candidate was a deepfake during an interview. The Justice Department reported that over 300 U.S. companies unknowingly hired deepfakes from North Korea for remote IT jobs, who then stole information or locked companies out for ransom. | Vidoc Security Lab and 300 U.S. companies | Video | FOX 26 Houston |
| Aug 10, 2025 | An AI-generated video was created to depict a large tsunami hitting the coast of Japan. The video was shared on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, generating millions of views and causing misinformation amid real tsunami warnings. Analysis revealed inconsistencies indicating the video was synthetic. The video was linked to commercial sites. | Japanese public (misinformation about tsunami) | Video | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Aug 09, 2025 | Realtors are using AI-generated images of homes that don't exist or heavily editing existing homes to sell expensive properties. Examples include a listing of a renovated 3-bedroom in the UK with AI-generated flaws and a Zillow listing in Newport, Kentucky with a mangled house number. | Homes for sale | Image | yahoo.com |
| Aug 09, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a social media image featuring an AI-generated IndyCar with the ICE acronym to promote a proposed detention center in Indiana. The IndyCar series objected to the use of their car's likeness, especially since the car number matched that of Pato O'Ward, the only Mexican driver in the IndyCar Series. DHS initially defended the use of the image but later removed the post. | IndyCar, Pato O'Ward | Image | Yahoo Sports |
| Aug 09, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting raging wildfires in the Harrison Lake and Peachland areas were circulated online. The images misrepresented the terrain, fire size, and fire behavior, causing potential misinformation and panic. The BC Wildfire Service debunked the images, clarifying that they do not accurately represent the current wildfire situation. | BC Wildfire Service, Peachland Residents, Harrison Lake area residents | Image | Summerland Review |
| Aug 08, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting raging wildfires near Harrison Lake and Peachland area circulated online. The images falsely showed large open flames and aircraft fighting the fires, which were debunked by the B.C. Wildfire Service as misinformation. | B.C. Wildfire Service and the public | Image | Agassiz-Harrison Observer |
| Aug 08, 2025 | A song used AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd without the artists' permission. Universal Music Group invoked copyright violations, leading to its removal from Spotify and other platforms. | Drake and The Weeknd | Audio | NPR |
| Aug 08, 2025 | Voice actor Beverly Standing sued TikTok alleging the platform was using her voice without permission. This led TikTok to shift to licensed voice providers. | Beverly Standing | Audio | Shopify |
| Aug 07, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely presented as an official rendering of Trump's planned White House ballroom expansion was shared on social media. The image, created using ChatGPT, depicted a disproportionately large ballroom attached to the wrong side of the White House. | Donald Trump, White House | Image | Snopes |
| Aug 07, 2025 | A deepfake video depicted a fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arguing on the floor of Congress that a recent Sydney Sweeney ad, which advertised her “great jeans”, was racist. Chris Cuomo shared the video on Instagram before deleting it. The video was prominently watermarked as a "deepfake" video. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Video | The Guardian |
| Aug 07, 2025 | A deepfake video appeared on YouTube depicting a verbal clash between Sen. Josh Hawley and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Also, a video posted by Christopher Kohls showed Kamala Harris seemingly admitting she was a 'diversity hire'. | Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris | Video | CalMatters |
| Aug 07, 2025 | AI is used to regenerate stolen nature photos, falsely presenting them as real creatures on Facebook. The generated photos often contain anatomically incorrect details and are accompanied by factually wrong AI-generated text. Photographers' reach is limited, and the AI images dilute the exclusivity of their original photos, misleading viewers. | Nature photographers on Facebook | Image | PetaPixel |
| Aug 07, 2025 | AI-generated content is being used on Facebook to steal nature photographers' work. Their photos are edited with AI and re-uploaded without credit, often presented as real creatures with fabricated stories. Pages with millions of followers use AI to regenerate photos, potentially evading copyright detection. The content is often factually incorrect and anatomically flawed, misleading viewers and diminishing the value of original photos. Photographers are using DMCA takedowns to remove some images. | Nature photographers on Facebook | Image | PetaPixel |
| Aug 07, 2025 | A deepfake video was created purporting to show Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussing the Sydney Sweeney jeans commercial on the House floor and claiming that the commercial is racist. Chris Cuomo reposted the video on his X account, believing it to be real. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Video | The Independent |
| Aug 07, 2025 | The article discusses the growing problem of deepfake pornography and mentions two examples: Scarlett Johansson suing an AI app developer for using her likeness and voice, and Taylor Swift being the subject of deepfake pornography. | Scarlett Johansson, Taylor Swift | Image, Video | South China Morning Post |
| Aug 06, 2025 | Rod Stewart's concert featured an AI-generated video of Ozzy Osbourne taking selfies with other deceased celebrities (Prince, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, XXXTentacion, Tupac Shakur, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse) in a Heaven-like setting. The video was perceived as distasteful and sparked online backlash. | Ozzy Osbourne (posthumously) and other deceased celebrities. | Video | Forbes |
| Aug 06, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an AI-generated image of an IndyCar featuring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) branding on social media. IndyCar was unaware of this and stated they prefer their IP not be utilized in this way moving forward. The image was shared after the announcement of a new immigration detention center near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The image showed a car with the number 5, the same number used by driver Pato O'Ward. DHS denied any violation of intellectual property rights. | IndyCar | Image | ABC News |
| Aug 06, 2025 | Grok Imagine, a generative AI tool created a six-second clip of Taylor Swift dancing topless. The tool generated the video without explicit prompting for nudity, raising concerns about inadequate safeguards against creating celebrity deepfakes and adult materials. | Taylor Swift | Video | New York Post |
| Aug 06, 2025 | An AI-generated parody video criticizing Kamala Harris was created and reposted. A California anti-deepfake law intended to prevent such incidents was challenged in court. | Kamala Harris | Audio | Bloomberg Law News |
| Aug 06, 2025 | AI-generated wildfire images are being used to spread misinformation about the size and intensity of wildfires in British Columbia. The images are often exaggerated and stoke fear, or can depict wildfires behaving with less intensity, which could cause someone in danger to pay less attention as a result. This misinformation could affect people's decision-making in an emergency. | The public in British Columbia, Canada | Image | CBC |
| Aug 06, 2025 | A deepfake pornographic video targeting the wife of State Representative Craig Haggard was allegedly viewed by staff members in Indiana Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith's office. Beckwith denies the report, but Haggard confirmed the video's existence and expressed outrage. An investigation is ongoing. | Wife of State Representative Craig Haggard | Video | 95.3 MNC |
| Aug 06, 2025 | A mother in Florida received a panicked voice message from what sounded exactly like her daughter. The voice, a perfect AI clone, claimed to have been in a car crash that injured a pregnant woman. A man then came on the line, impersonating a public defender, and demanded $15,000 for bail. The mother, acting out of fear, gathered the cash and handed it to a courier. It was only when another call requested more money that her grandson realized it was a scam. | Mother in Florida | Audio | Homeland Security Today |
| Aug 06, 2025 | AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white. For example, when prompted to provide a behavior intervention plan for Annie, Gemini emphasized addressing aggressive behavior with “consistent non-escalating responses” and “consistent positive reinforcement.” Lakeesha, on the other hand, should receive “immediate” responses to her aggressive behaviors and positive reinforcement for “desired behaviors,” the tool said. For Kareem, Gemini simply said, “Clearly define expectations and teach replacement behaviors,” with no mention of positive reinforcement or responses to aggressive behavior. | Students with Black-coded names | Chalkbeat | |
| Aug 06, 2025 | A deepfake audio of President Biden circulated widely. | Joe Biden | Audio | WebProNews |
| Aug 06, 2025 | CNN's Jim Acosta interviewed an AI-generated simulacrum of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the 2018 Parkland high school massacre. The AI was created by Joaquin's parents to continue to raise Joaquin's voice but the interview was criticized as grotesque and the AI was of poor quality. | Joaquin Oliver (deceased) | Video | bloodinthemachine.com |
| Aug 05, 2025 | Jim Acosta interviewed an AI avatar of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting. The avatar, created using AI and a real photograph, discussed gun violence. Additionally, Joaquin Oliver's AI voice was used in a robocalling campaign called 'The Shotline' to urge Congress to take action on gun reform. | Joaquin Oliver (deceased) | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Aug 04, 2025 | Jim Acosta allegedly created a video featuring an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Parkland shooting, to advocate for stricter gun laws. The video presents a CGI version of Oliver delivering lines about the need for gun control. | Joaquin Oliver (Parkland Victim) | Video | r/progun |
| Aug 04, 2025 | Rod Stewart created an AI-generated tribute to Ozzy Osbourne which featured AI visuals of Osbourne posing with late musicians. It was called "tacky" and "embarrassing" by some. | Ozzy Osbourne | Image | Fox News |
| Aug 03, 2025 | Rod Stewart used AI-generated images and videos of Ozzy Osbourne, who supposedly died on July 22, posing with deceased musicians in a heavenly setting during his concert tribute. The images also included controversial figures like Michael Jackson and XXXTentacion. | Ozzy Osbourne (posthumously) | Image, Video | Variety |
| Aug 02, 2025 | Crooks created a deepfake of Elon Musk promoting his new cryptocurrency coin. In the video, he talks about the coin being the future of money transfer, and promises “huge gains” for the investors. | Elon Musk | Video | TechRadar |
| Aug 02, 2025 | Eros International used AI to alter the ending of the Tamil version of the Bollywood film *Raanjhanaa*, titled *Ambikapathy*. The original tragic ending was changed to a happy one with Kundan (Dhanush) alive and recovering in the hospital. | Raanjhanaa movie ending | Video | Mashable India |
| Aug 02, 2025 | A video depicting an Emirates plane crash-landing was circulated on Instagram and Youtube. Fact-checking revealed the video to be fake based on the absence of media reports, official announcements, incorrect spelling, mismatching tail design, and AI detection results. | Emirates Airlines | Video | DFRAC ORG |
| Aug 01, 2025 | A businessman was tricked into paying out $25 million when he was convinced that he was in a conference call with several colleagues and supposed Chief Financial Officer. In reality, they were all deepfake imposters. | Businessman | Audio | Movieguide |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Vogue US ran a Guess ad in its August 2025 issue featuring AI-generated visuals of a blonde model. This sparked backlash from readers and creative professionals who saw it as a threat to the industry. The ad was created by Seraphinne Vallora, and while Vogue included a footnote confirming the AI generation, critics argued it contradicted the magazine's artistic foundation and raised concerns about the replacement of human creatives with AI. | Vogue US | Image | FashionNetwork - The World's Fashion Business News |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Guess advertisements in the August 2025 issue of American Vogue are generating controversy due to the use of AI-generated models named Vivienne and Anastasia. The models were created by Seraphinne Vallora, an AI marketing agency. The companies are facing criticism for using fake women and potentially impacting real models' jobs, as well as perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards. | Guess and Vogue Magazine | Image | ABC News |
| Aug 01, 2025 | The August 2025 issue of American Vogue features Guess advertisements with AI-generated models named Vivienne and Anastasia, created by Seraphinne Vallora. This sparked controversy on social media, with users criticizing Guess and Vogue for using 'fake women' and perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards. | Guess, Vogue, Modeling Industry | Image | ABC News |
| Aug 01, 2025 | A malicious npm package, @kodane/patch-manager, was generated using AI and contained a cryptocurrency wallet drainer targeting Solana funds. The package was uploaded to npm by a user named "Kodane" on July 28, 2025, and downloaded over 1,500 times before being removed. It used a postinstall script to install the wallet drainer and steal cryptocurrency from compromised users. | Users who downloaded the @kodane/patch-manager npm package, specifically those with Solana wallets | The Hacker News | |
| Aug 01, 2025 | AI-generated images of doctors are used in videos promoting health products on social media. This is a scam. | Doctors in Quebec | Image, Video | CBC |
| Aug 01, 2025 | DoubleVerify's DEEP DIVES report exposes AI-generated recipe websites using fake imagery and authors to mislead consumers and capture advertising revenue. Sites like InsanelyGoodRecipes.com and Quick Recipes heavily rely on AI-generated content, including text and food images, with minimal human effort. AI-generated author profiles were also identified. MarketGrow pivoted from a stock market news site to a recipe site to generate evergreen content for advertising. The report highlights consumer skepticism towards AI-generated content and brand safety concerns for advertisers. | Advertisers | Image, Audio | PPC Land |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Two women were scammed out of substantial amounts of money by scammers impersonating Keanu Reeves using AI-generated voice and video. One woman lost $40,000, and the other lost close to $170,000. The scammers contacted the women through word games and built a connection before asking for money for various reasons. | Two women | Audio, Video | WESH |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Lawyers submitted court filings with inaccurate case details and 'hallucinated' quotes generated by AI, leading to sanctions and withdrawn rulings. Three attorneys were sanctioned for submitting erroneous court filings that were later revealed to have been generated by ChatGPT. | U.S. court system | Fox News | |
| Jul 31, 2025 | A British 999 call handler's voice was cloned using AI and used in a Russian disinformation campaign to spread fear ahead of Poland's presidential election. The voice was taken from a video posted by the North West Ambulance Service. | Aaron, British 999 call handler | Audio | The Independent |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Guess used AI-generated models in an advertisement in Vogue US, sparking controversy about the potential impact on real models, particularly plus-size models, and the erasure of diversity and progress in the fashion industry. | Models (specifically plus-size models) | Image | Dazed |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Reports of AI-generated child pornography have increased by 86% in the past year. Dutch police are encountering AI-generated child pornography in investigations. In 2024, there were 153 reports, up from 82 in 2023. A Europol bust of an AI child porn platform led to 25 arrests, including four Dutch suspects. Dutch law does not differentiate between real and AI-generated child pornography in terms of criminal liability. | Children | Image | NL Times |
| Jul 31, 2025 | A British emergency medical advisor's voice was cloned using AI and used in a video campaign by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign. The campaign aimed to spread fear ahead of Poland's presidential election. | British emergency medical advisor (Preston, England) | Audio, Video | BBC |
| Jul 30, 2025 | German-dubbed version of Viaplay's Polish crime series Murderesses was removed after criticism from viewers about the monotony of its AI-generated dialogue. The hybrid dubbing, created with Israeli startup DeepDub, used a mix of human and AI voices. | Viaplay's Polish crime series Murderesses | Audio | The Straits Times |
| Jul 30, 2025 | A young woman identified as Evie had her selfies turned into explicit sexual imagery by others using the AI chatbot Grok. Users found ways to taunt victims, including asking it to generate a story detailing Evie’s sexual assault and rape. | Evie | Image | Time Magazine |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Donald Trump Jr. posted an AI-generated image of his father, Donald Trump, parodying Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign. The image depicted Donald Trump posing in a denim outfit. Donald Trump Jr. made a joke referencing his father as 'hot'. | Donald Trump | Image | HuffPost |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Booz Allen's CTO, Bill Vass, created a deepfake video of himself to train employees about the risks of deepfakes. The video, created in partnership with Reality Defender, shows how easily fake audio and video content can be created. | Booz Allen employees | Video | Fortune |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Fable released nine AI-generated "South Park" episodes without permission, which received over 80 million views. The "South Park" team was informed and reassured the IP wasn’t being deployed commercially. | South Park | Video | Variety |
| Jul 30, 2025 | An AI-generated image combining a stock AI solar halo with an inaccurate depiction of Stonehenge was circulated on social media, falsely presented as a genuine photograph of a rare solar halo over Stonehenge. The image contained inconsistencies like nonexistent trees, an incorrect stone arrangement, and overly long grass. AI detection tools confirmed the image's artificial nature with a 99% probability. | Viewers of social media (Facebook, Reddit, X) | Image | snopes.com |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Epic Games subsidiary, Llama Productions, allegedly used AI to replicate Darth Vader's voice in Fortnite without prior notice or collective bargaining with the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA. The union filed an unfair labor practice charge, arguing this deprived union members of work and violated existing labor agreements. | Darth Vader's voice actor | Audio | Clyde & Co |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Fake videos of President Zelenskyy appeared online, falsely depicting him urging his own troops to surrender during the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | President Zelenskyy | Video | CrimeReads |
| Jul 30, 2025 | South Park used AI to create a live-action PSA depicting Donald Trump naked with a micropenis, which was then shown in the season 27 premiere. Deep Voodoo is listed as a provider of visual effects. The episode received a scathing response from the White House. | Donald Trump | Video, Image | Entertainment Weekly |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Deepfake technology is used by job candidates to impersonate others in video interviews. Some companies have unknowingly employed individuals who were not who they seemed. 17% of hiring managers surveyed encountered candidates using deepfake technology. | Companies, specifically hiring managers | Video | WRAL.com |
| Jul 29, 2025 | AI-generated music tracks were created and falsely attributed to Tyler, The Creator and Sabrina Carpenter, then uploaded to YouTube and TikTok in an attempt to mislead fans and gain views. | Tyler, The Creator and Sabrina Carpenter | Audio | PC Gamer |
| Jul 28, 2025 | AI-generated images were circulated on social media depicting Egyptians throwing bottles of food into the sea, supposedly for Gazans. The images contained distortions such as awkwardly bent thumbs, unrealistic bottle appearances, distorted hands, and watermarks from X's AI chatbot, Grok. These images were proven to be fake and did not depict a real event. | Egyptians (in terms of misrepresentation) and potentially those viewing the images (disinformation). | Image | PolitiFact |
| Jul 28, 2025 | LeBron James' lawyers issued cease-and-desist letters to creators producing deepfake videos of James, including content that depicts him as pregnant or in graphic, disturbing scenarios. Instagram removed several accounts that posted the offensive content. The deepfakes included videos of James in a sexual assault scenario, as a homeless person, and pregnant. | LeBron James | Image, Video | Okayplayer |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Donald Trump shared a deepfake video depicting Barack Obama's arrest by the FBI inside the Oval Office on Truth Social. The video uses AI-generated visuals of Obama in handcuffs and a prison jumpsuit, accompanied by soundbites of Democratic leaders. | Barack Obama | Video | Firstpost |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Deepfake videos were circulated on social media in the names of several Azerbaijani state officials. The videos are created with artificial intelligence and aimed at misleading public opinion. | Azerbaijani state officials | Video | Apa.az |
| Jul 28, 2025 | A 17-year-old boy in Valencia, Spain, is being investigated for using AI to create and distribute deepfake nude videos of 16 female classmates. He intended to sell these videos online. The investigation started in December after a student reported a social media account with an AI-generated video of her. Police tracked the suspect through social media activity, hosting companies, and a website offering AI image modification services. | 16 female students at a school in Valencia, Spain | Video, Image | PetaPixel |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Deepfake candidates were used in live interviews to infiltrate organizations. Candidates used a third-party "handler" to debrief after the interview and coordinate completing technical assessments. Pindrop's analysis showed 1 in 4 DPRK-linked applicants used deepfake technology. Some candidates had stand-ins attend interviews or had someone else complete take-home assessments. | Pindrop and other companies' hiring processes | Video, Audio | Pindrop |
| Jul 28, 2025 | The article describes instances of AI-driven fraud, including voice cloning to impersonate family members for ransom, executives for corporate fund transfers, and Senator Marco Rubio to extract sensitive data. It also mentions the looming threat of real-time video deepfakes being used for scams. | Marco Rubio, Foreign Officials, Corporate Employees, Individuals | Audio, Video | Zoom Bangla News |
| Jul 28, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated online depicting Pedro Pascal kissing Vanessa Kirby, causing a smear campaign due to misinterpretation of their friendship. | Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby | Video | The Tab |
| Jul 28, 2025 | A deepfake audio of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was created earlier this year, saying he wanted to quit. | Mike Pompeo | Audio | Ottumwa Courier |
| Jul 28, 2025 | An employee received a phone call from someone using deepfake voice technology to mimic their boss. The caller asked the employee to send money to a vendor. The employee verified with their boss through another communication channel and found out it was a fraud attempt. | Employee | Audio | Vocal |
| Jul 28, 2025 | The author received a phone call from someone using deepfake voice technology to impersonate their boss. The fake voice had the same tone, mannerisms, and signature throat-clear as the boss. The caller asked the author to send money to a vendor. The author verified with their boss and discovered that he had not made the call. | Author | Audio | Vocal |
| Jul 28, 2025 | AI-generated song titled "Together" appeared on Blaze Foley's official Spotify page. The song was not created by Blaze Foley and was uploaded without permission from the estate administrators or rights holders. The track was distributed via SoundOn, a TikTok-owned distributor. | Blaze Foley (estate/rights holders) | Audio | Gearnews.com |
| Jul 28, 2025 | A fake AI-generated video falsely announced the suspension of classes, leading the Department of Education (DepEd) to issue a warning. | The public, specifically Filipino students and parents | Video | GMA Network |
| Jul 28, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of deepfakes and AI-generated content used to mislead voters and create child sexual abuse material. It mentions a robocall using AI voice-clone technology to imitate former President Joe Biden telling voters not to vote in the primaries, and a deepfake video in the UK where then-Opposition leader Rishi Sunak was depicted making disparaging remarks about staff. | Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak | Audio, Video | The Nightly |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Article discusses the rise of AI "nudification" tools and their use in creating non-consensual sexualized images. It highlights the prevalence of such deepfakes, particularly targeting women and minors, and the legal and societal responses to combat this issue. It also mentions the Internet Watch Foundation reporting a 400 percent rise in the number of URLs hosting AI-generated child sex abuse content in the first six months of 2025. | Women and girls are disproportionately targeted, minors | Image | Forbes |
| Jul 28, 2025 | The band Velvet Sundown, with over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, was revealed to be an AI-generated hoax. The band's members, pictured in publicity images, did not exist beyond their music, which was created by a generative music creation model. The band's Spotify bio was updated to concede that its output was a 'synthetic music project' created 'with the support of artificial intelligence'. | Velvet Sundown fans | Audio, Image | Monocle |
| Jul 27, 2025 | The article reports on the rise of 'nudifier' apps that use AI to create explicit deepfakes from ordinary photographs, often without the subject's consent. These apps are used to generate naked images of individuals, leading to potential blackmail, extortion, and 'digital sexual assault'. The report highlights the involvement of major tech companies in providing services to these apps and the financial gains being made through them. One of the most popular nudifier services is called ClothOff, and produces an average of 200,000 pictures a day. | Primarily women and girls, including children, are targeted, with potential blackmail or extortion. | Image | The Times |
| Jul 27, 2025 | A 17-year-old boy in Spain is being investigated for using AI to create and share fake nude images and videos of his female schoolmates. He created social media accounts and a webpage to advertise and sell these images. 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints. | Female schoolmates | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Jul 26, 2025 | LeBron James issued a cease-and-desist letter to Interlink AI after AI-generated videos featuring him circulated widely on social media, depicting him in outlandish scenarios, such as being portrayed as a pregnant man, a mermaid, and in a compromising situation with rapper Diddy and NBA player Stephen Curry. One such video, featuring James, Diddy, and Curry, racked up approximately 6.2 million views on Instagram. | LeBron James | Video | Black Enterprise |
| Jul 26, 2025 | LeBron James' legal team issued a cease-and-desist letter to FlickUp, the company behind the AI image-generation tool Interlink AI, for unauthorized use of his likeness. The Interlink AI tool allowed users to create AI-generated videos of NBA players, including James, Stephen Curry, and Nikola Jokić. Some videos were disturbing, including an image of James embracing his pregnant belly and a video depicting an AI-generated Sean "Diddy" Combs sexually assaulting Curry while James appears passively in the background. This video amassed over 6.2 million views on Instagram. | LeBron James, Stephen Curry | Image, Video | Mashable |
| Jul 26, 2025 | Donald Trump shared an AI-generated clip on Truth Social showing Barack Obama being forcibly detained by the FBI. | Barack Obama | Video | MSNBC News |
| Jul 25, 2025 | A data breach at the Tea app exposed 72,000 user records, including government-issued IDs and selfies. The app's backend database was unsecured due to 'vibe coding,' where developers used AI tools like ChatGPT to generate code without rigorous security reviews. This led to a publicly accessible Firebase bucket, lacking authentication, resulting in the exposure of sensitive user data. | 72,000 Users of the Tea App | Image | AInvest |
| Jul 25, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting a pregnant LeBron James were created using an AI platform and shared on social media, including Instagram and X. James's legal team issued a cease and desist letter to the platform's creator. The video showed a pregnant James being loaded into an ambulance after telling an AI Steph Curry to 'come quick our baby is being born'. | LeBron James | Video | Engadget |
| Jul 25, 2025 | A deepfake video was created showing Pedro Pascal leering at and kissing female co-stars as they look visibly uncomfortable. This was allegedly part of a smear campaign due to Pascal's support for trans rights. | Pedro Pascal | Video | LADbible |
| Jul 25, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video depicting Pedro Pascal leering at and kissing female co-stars (specifically Vanessa Kirby) against their will went viral on X, prompting outrage and accusations of a smear campaign against the actor, who is a vocal supporter of the transgender community. The deepfake was used to create a false narrative about Pascal's behavior towards his co-stars. | Pedro Pascal | Video | LADbible |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Vogue's August 2025 issue used AI-generated models in its advertisements, leading to subscription cancellations and criticism. The AI-generated figures posed in high-end couture. Each image came with a disclaimer stating it was “produced with artificial intelligence,” alongside full designer credits. | Vogue Magazine | Image | The Daily Dot |
| Jul 25, 2025 | A trader was targeted via a deepfake scam where the attacker cloned her portfolio manager’s voice on a Telegram call and siphoned six figures. Also, CryptoCore gang has been running deepfake-powered crypto scams that siphon millions, often targeting high-net-worth wallets and OTC desks. | Trader and high-net-worth wallets and OTC desks | Audio | r/lolacoin |
| Jul 25, 2025 | An imitation of Marco Rubio's voice was used in an attempt to solicit counterparts to share information. | Marco Rubio | Audio | Lowy Institute |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material have increased dramatically. NCMEC saw a 1,300% increase between 2023 and 2024 and has received over 400,000 reports related to generative AI into 2025. A local FBI analyst in Cypress was found with over 1,000 real and AI-generated CSAM images after local authorities made one of the region's first arrests involving AI-generated CSAM in mid-2024. | Children | Image | FOX 26 Houston |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Cybercriminals have used deepfake videos and voice cloning to impersonate CEOs during virtual meetings, tricking employees into transferring large sums of money. Others have used it to spread false information online, conduct phishing scams, or impersonate friends or relatives in distress—convincing people to share personal information or send money. Deepfakes have also been used to harass or blackmail individuals by placing their likenesses into inappropriate or fabricated content. | CEOs, employees, general public | Video, Audio | SunNews.org |
| Jul 24, 2025 | AI-generated songs are being uploaded to real artists' Spotify pages without permission, including artists who have passed away. This is reshaping media and culture. | Spotify Artists | Audio | WDET 101.9 FM |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Lawyers defending Jeff Dunn in a lawsuit inadvertently included made-up citations generated by artificial intelligence in court filings. The judge reprimanded the lawyers for making false statements and disqualified them from the case. | Jeff Dunn, former Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner | Reuters | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | A South Park episode featured a hyperrealistic deepfake of Donald Trump in a spoof PSA. The deepfake showed a nude Trump stumbling through the desert. The PSA was created as part of a settlement agreement the town of South Park made with Trump after losing a lawsuit to him. | Donald Trump | Video | People.com |
| Jul 24, 2025 | A deepfake PSA video depicted a realistic-looking Donald Trump stumbling across a desert landscape and stripping naked. The video was part of a "South Park" episode and a result of settling a lawsuit requiring South Park to produce "pro-Trump messaging." The PSA links to HeTrumpedUs.com, confirming "This parody contains synthetic media." | Donald Trump | Video | Variety |
| Jul 24, 2025 | An AI-generated video retrospective of Ozzy Osbourne's life was created using AI to generate video of Osbourne moving between photos and getting younger with each one. The video contained factual errors and inappropriate music. | Ozzy Osbourne | Video | TechRadar |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Israeli minister Gila Gamliel posted an AI-generated video depicting a redeveloped Gaza Strip with skyscrapers and a sign reading 'Trump', promoting the 'voluntary emigration' of Palestinians. The video also includes AI versions of Netanyahu and Trump walking along the coastline of this imagined city. This aligns with a plan Gamliel submitted advocating for the 'voluntary emigration' of Palestinians. | Palestinian population of Gaza | Video | The Times of Israel |
| Jul 24, 2025 | The article mentions Katy Perry's deepfake attendance at the Met Gala and the puffer jacket Pope as examples of image-based misinformation created with generative AI. It also discusses the development of a tool called UnMarker that can remove watermarks from AI-generated images, making it harder to detect deepfakes. | Katy Perry, Pope | Image | Malwarebytes |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Scammers are using AI-generated deepfakes of Ripple executives, including CEO Brad Garlinghouse, on YouTube to promote fake XRP giveaways and investment opportunities. They are also hijacking official YouTube accounts to mimic Ripple's branding and direct users to fraudulent schemes. The deepfakes involve altering footage of company leaders and using AI-generated voiceovers to create deceptive content. | Ripple and Brad Garlinghouse | Video | AInvest |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Scammers use AI to mimic voices of loved ones in fake emergency situations like kidnappings. Americans lost more than $12.5 billion to AI voice scams in 2023. | Parents, elderly individuals, dating app users, and non-English speakers | Audio | Fox4Now.com |
| Jul 24, 2025 | AI-generated reviews are flooding Steam, with evidence dating back to mid-2023. These reviews exhibit repetitive phrasing, generic praise/criticism, and a lack of personal insight. Copyleaks used their AI Detector tool to confirm the reviews were AI-generated. Valve has not taken sufficient action to remove them. | Steam game reviews | 80 Level | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | South Park Season 27 features a deepfake PSA created by Parker and Stone's Deep Voodoo, portraying Trump disrobing in the desert and being praised. This is part of a storyline where South Park is forced to create pro-Trump PSAs due to a lawsuit. | Donald Trump | Video | Cracked.com |
| Jul 24, 2025 | A 29-year-old man in Denmark was found to have generated and sold thousands of AI-generated child sexual abuse images. He possessed over 36,000 such files and claimed to be among the top creators of realistic images of children. This led to a Europol operation involving 273 suspects and 25 arrests across 19 countries. | Children | Image | Le Monde.fr |
| Jul 23, 2025 | A finance worker in Hong Kong transferred $25 million to scammers after a deepfake video call impersonated the company's CFO and other executives. | Finance worker in Hong Kong (company's CFO and other executives) | Video | PYMNTS.com |
| Jul 23, 2025 | AI-generated songs were uploaded to the Spotify pages of deceased artists Blaze Foley and Guy Clark without consent. The track 'Together' was posted to Blaze Foley's page with AI-generated cover art. Another song, 'Happened To You,' was uploaded under Guy Clark's name. Both tracks were linked to a company called Syntax Error and have since been removed by Spotify for violating their deceptive content policy. | Blaze Foley and Guy Clark | Audio, Image | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Jul 23, 2025 | An AI-generated song, "Name This Night," appeared under Toto's name on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. The song was quickly removed after fans and guitarist Steve Lukather noticed it and Toto filed an official complaint. The track used stock cover art and lacked the Toto logo. | Toto | Audio | yahoo.com |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Sanchi, an Indian woman, had her identity stolen by her ex-boyfriend, Pratim Bora, who used her private photos and AI tools to create a fake Instagram profile named Babydoll Archi. He populated it with deepfake photos and videos, which gained traction and monetized the account. The deepfake content depicted Sanchi in erotic and suggestive scenarios without her consent, causing her distress and reputational harm. | Sanchi | Image, Video | BBC |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Someone used AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio's voice to contact foreign ministers, a governor, and a member of Congress. | Marco Rubio and others | Audio | CNN |
| Jul 22, 2025 | A company cloned a YouTuber's voice for ads without permission. | YouTuber (unspecified name) | Audio | House of Communication |
| Jul 22, 2025 | An AI-generated song titled "Together" was uploaded to the Spotify profile of deceased country singer Blaze Foley, along with AI-generated artwork. The label manager confirmed the song was not authentic and was uploaded without permission. A similar incident occurred with another deceased singer, Guy Clark. The song has been removed by Spotify for violating their Deceptive Content policy. | Blaze Foley | Audio, Image | The Fader |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Users on X used the Grok chatbot to generate sexually explicit images and fan fiction about women, including Evie, without their consent. The AI-generated content was used to harass and degrade the women. | Evie and other women on X | Image | USA Today |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting Barack Obama's arrest and imprisonment on Truth Social. The video shows Obama stating 'no one is above the law,' followed by scenes of his arrest and incarceration, set to the song 'YMCA.' | Barack Obama | Video | The Independent |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Male students used "nudify" apps to create deepfake nudes of their female classmates. Incidents were reported in New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Florida, Pennsylvania, Southern California, and Iowa. | Female classmates at US middle and high schools | Image | Stanford HAI |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting the arrest of Barack Obama, following allegations from Tulsi Gabbard about Obama's administration manufacturing intelligence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. Legal analysts suggest this was a distraction from backlash related to Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. | Barack Obama | Video | Newsweek |
| Jul 21, 2025 | The author's face was used on a stranger's body in a video-sharing app, making it appear as if the author was dancing, laughing, and speaking. The video went viral, and the author struggled to get it taken down and faced reputational damage. | The author of the article | Video | Vocal |
| Jul 21, 2025 | A deepfake candidate, "Ivan X", applied for a job at Pindrop, a voice fraud specialist, not once but twice. The candidate used AI-generated resumes, manipulated credentials, and deepfake technology to simulate live interviews. Pindrop's deepfake detection technology identified red flags such as unnatural facial movements, audio-visual lag, and unnatural pauses when answering technical questions. | Pindrop | Video, Audio | computerweekly.com |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Deepfake videos using Ankur Warikoo's likeness promoted fraudulent investment advice, deceiving his followers and leading to financial losses. The deepfakes replicated Warikoo’s expressions and voice. | Ankur Warikoo | Video, Audio | Law.asia |
| Jul 21, 2025 | The article discusses the increasing challenges of voice fraud due to AI and hybrid work environments. It mentions instances of cloned voices being used to impersonate individuals, such as a CFO asking for a wire transfer or a CEO requesting a 'quick favor'. It highlights that 63% of consumers have received AI-generated deepfake robocalls. While it describes the potential for deepfake attacks, it does not focus on a single, specific incident. | companies, consumers | Audio | UC Today |
| Jul 21, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting flooding at a Seoul palace, including absurd details like a seal, was created using Google's Veo 3. It was convincing enough to deceive viewers and was one of many similar videos about South Korea's floods that proliferated across YouTube, causing public unease. | South Korea/Seoul | Video | South China Morning Post |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Spotify published an AI-generated song and AI-generated image on the official Spotify page of Blaze Foley, a deceased country singer-songwriter, without permission from his estate or record label. The song, titled "Together," and associated image were created using generative AI and do not resemble Foley's actual work or appearance. | Blaze Foley (Estate/Record Label) | Audio, Image | 404 Media |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting the arrest of Barack Obama. The video includes fabricated scenes of Obama being arrested and imprisoned, set to the song 'Y.M.C.A.' The Village People have objected to the use of their song in the video. | Barack Obama | Video | Billboard |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Donald Trump shared a deepfake video on Truth Social depicting the arrest of Barack Obama by FBI agents in the Oval Office. The video shows Obama giving a speech, followed by his arrest while Trump watches. The video ends with Obama in a prison cell. | Barack Obama | Video | financialexpress.com |
| Jul 20, 2025 | AI-generated video depicts Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office, sparking outrage. | Barack Obama | Video | The Mirror US |
| Jul 20, 2025 | Sharon Brightwell was conned out of $15,000 after receiving a phone call from someone using an AI-cloned audio of her daughter's voice, claiming her daughter was in a car crash and needed bail money. The scam involved a staged car accident story and a fake attorney demanding money. A police report has been filed. | Sharon Brightwell | Audio | People.com |
| Jul 19, 2025 | An unknown person used AI to imitate the voice of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and subsequently deployed the voice clone in an attempt to dupe government officials. | Marco Rubio | Audio | ZDNET |
| Jul 18, 2025 | James Craig asked his daughter to create a deepfake video of his wife, Angela Craig, requesting the poisonous ingredients that eventually led to her death. He provided written instructions on how to create the deepfake. The deepfake was intended to make it appear as though Angela herself had requested the toxic substances. | Angela Craig | Video | People.com |
| Jul 18, 2025 | AI voice scammers are targeting Gmail users by impersonating Google support in phone calls. The scammers use AI-generated voices to sound like legitimate Google representatives and trick users into providing their Gmail credentials. | Gmail users | Audio | Yahoo Home |
| Jul 17, 2025 | A Florida woman was swindled out of $15,000 after receiving a phone call in which her daughter's voice was cloned using AI. The caller, impersonating the daughter, claimed to be in jail after a car accident and needed bail money. The woman followed instructions from the callers, but the scheme was exposed when her grandson contacted her real daughter. | Florida woman | Audio | NBC 6 South Florida |
| Jul 17, 2025 | The official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published an AI-generated cartoon depicting Jews and Israeli soldiers as frightened rats fleeing Iranian missiles on an American flag-draped vessel at sea. | Jews and Israeli Soldiers | Image | ایران اینترنشنال |
| Jul 16, 2025 | AI voice generator Lovo, Inc. allegedly used recordings of Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage's voices to create and sell AI-generated voice clones without authorization or proper compensation. Lovo acquired recordings of their voices via Fiverr under the guise that they would use the recordings solely for internal research purposes. In reality, Lehrman and Sage claim that Lovo used their “voices and/or identities to create millions of voice-over productions without permission or proper compensation. | Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage | Audio | The Fashion Law |
| Jul 15, 2025 | A Microsoft employee used a poorly generated AI image to advertise for graphic designer jobs at Xbox. The image contained obvious flaws, such as code appearing on the back of a computer monitor and an outdated headphone. The ad was considered awkward, especially after recent layoffs at Microsoft, because the image undermines the need for graphic designers. | Microsoft Xbox brand | Image | TechRadar |
| Jul 15, 2025 | A finance worker was duped into paying $25m during a video conference call where deepfakes of his co-workers' faces and voices were used. | Finance worker | Video, Audio | The Independent |
| Jul 15, 2025 | The voice of the late actor Jose Lavat was allegedly used without his family's consent in a video by the National Electoral Institute (INE) on TikTok to thank citizens for voting. The video was released following the judicial elections on June 1. | Jose Lavat | Audio | Emporia Gazette |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Messages generated by an AI-cloned voice impersonating US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were reported to have been sent to ministers. | Marco Rubio | Audio | BBC |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Scammers have used deepfakes of crypto founders to push fake token sales, and even game trailers can be forged to hype up nonexistent projects. | crypto founders, game trailers | Video | HackerNoon |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Microsoft's Xbox division used an AI-generated image in a hiring advertisement for graphics designers. The image contained obvious flaws indicative of AI generation, such as a monitor with the display on the back and a keyboard with randomly shaped blocks. The use of the AI image was criticized as being tone-deaf, especially after recent layoffs and statements about employees using AI. | Xbox Graphics hiring ad | Image | PC Gamer |
| Jul 14, 2025 | The National Electoral Institute of Mexico used a cloned voice of the late actor Jose Lavat in a video without family consent. Lili Barba, president of the Mexican Association of Commercial Announcements, called the incident a major violation. | Jose Lavat (deceased) | Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Jul 14, 2025 | The National Electoral Institute (INE) in Mexico used the voice of the late actor Jose Lavat, famous for dubbing, in a TikTok video without his family's consent. This was done to thank citizens for voting after judicial elections. | Jose Lavat (posthumously) | Audio | El Paso Inc. |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Voice-over artists Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage are suing AI voice startup Lovo Inc. alleging their voices were stolen. They were separately approached by anonymous Lovo employees for voice-over work through Fiverr, with assurances their voices would only be used internally for research and test scripts. Months later, they discovered alleged clones of their voices, named Kyle Snow and Sally Coleman, available for use on Lovo's platform. Lehrman's voice was used in an advertisement on the company's YouTube page and Sage's was used in a fundraising video for the platform. | Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage | Audio | BBC |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Deepfake AI job applicants are stealing remote work by defrauding U.S. companies. 17% of hiring managers have encountered candidates using deepfake technology in video interviews. The Justice Department alleged in May 2024 that over 300 U.S. companies unknowingly hired impostors tied to North Korea for remote IT roles, resulting in at least $6.8 million in overseas revenue. These workers allegedly used stolen American identities and VPNs to conceal their locations. | U.S. companies | Video | CNBC |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Unauthorized AI cloning of voice actors voices leading to a court case in New York. Claims under federal trademark and copyright law were dismissed, but claims may be valid under New York Civil Rights Law and state consumer protection law, as well as breach of contract. | Voice Actors | Audio | The National Law Review |
| Jul 10, 2025 | An audio deepfake impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress with AI-generated voicemails mimicking his voice, designed to extract sensitive information or gain account access. | Marco Rubio, US officials | Audio | Fortune |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Fraudsters used AI to clone the grandson's voice and trick the grandmother into paying 20,000 yuan (US$2,800) as compensation for supposedly injuring someone. | Elderly woman (surnamed Liu) | Audio | South China Morning Post |
| Jul 09, 2025 | A company cloned a YouTuber's voice for ads without their permission. This incident occurred outside the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region but highlights the ease with which voices can be misused. | YouTuber (unnamed) | Audio | Campaign Middle East |
| Jul 09, 2025 | Attackers used an AI-generated voice clone of Marco Rubio over Signal to try accessing sensitive information from a U.S. governor, a member of Congress, and three foreign ministers. Only 15-20 seconds of publicly available audio were needed to create the fake. | Marco Rubio, U.S. governor, Member of Congress, three foreign ministers | Audio | The Neuron |
| Jul 09, 2025 | Michael Rapaport shared an AI-generated image on social media depicting a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum identified the image as fake and AI-generated and stated the backstory was fabricated. | Auschwitz Memorial and Museum/Holocaust victims | Image | TMZ |
| Jul 08, 2025 | An impostor posing as Marco Rubio attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor using text, Signal, and voicemail. AI-generated voice messages were used to impersonate senior U.S. government officials in a separate but related campaign. | Marco Rubio, foreign ministers, a U.S. senator, a governor | Audio | PBS |
| Jul 07, 2025 | Deepfake advertisements using David Rosenberg's name and likeness are promoting pump and dump stock scams. The scam uses fake voice and video to falsely portray him advocating for specific investments. Victims have been defrauded of thousands of dollars. AI bots impersonate him across various social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, using print, pictures, and videos. A fake admin assistant is also involved to steal money. | David Rosenberg | Video, Audio | BNN Bloomberg |
| Jul 07, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on Nigerian social media depicting men in Nigerian Army uniforms escorting cattle in Benue State. The video was intended to incite outrage and deepen mistrust between communities and the military. Fact-checking revealed visual distortions and inconsistencies indicating manipulation. | Nigerian Army, Nigerian citizens, national unity and social cohesion | Video | Premium Times Nigeria |
| Jul 07, 2025 | A TikTok channel called 'migrantvlog' posted 22 AI-generated videos between June 9 and June 13. The videos depict a migrant's journey on a small boat and their reception in the UK, showing them receiving free food, accommodation, and phones. The videos contain hallmarks of AI generation, including watermarks for Veo, an AI video generation tool, and unnatural movements of people and objects. The aim seems to be to negatively portray migrants and the UK's support for them. | British taxpayers and migrants | Video | The Independent |
| Jul 07, 2025 | In 2021, Cadbury India created a deep fake video of a famous Indian movie actor to wish everyone Happy Diwali. They worked with rephrase.ai, which specializes in commercials with lifelike details and studio quality narration using AI techniques and synthetic voices. The ad’s target audience can create their own personalized ads using AI. Cadbury claims the actor is digitally re-created to announce the name of a local business/brand. | Cadbury India and a famous Indian movie actor | Video | Nature |
| Jul 07, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting a fake interview with an animal rights activist protesting pest control measures against lovebugs in South Korea. The images were created by a parody artist and shared on social media, with some users believing them to be real. | animal rights activists | Image | Yahoo |
| Jul 07, 2025 | Google’s Veo 3 has been used to create videos perpetuating racist stereotypes. Examples include videos depicting black people as monkeys, South Asian people being chased by a giant soap and shower head, and Orthodox Jewish men chasing large gold coins down a hill and a Jewish man enjoying a concentration camp. | Various groups, including Black people, South Asian people, and Orthodox Jewish men | Video | bandt.com.au |
| Jul 06, 2025 | AI-generated images depicting Donald Trump's hypothetical arrest in March 2023. Trump shared another AI image showing him kneeling in prayer, styled to look like a martyr. | Donald Trump | Image | PsyPost |
| Jul 06, 2025 | A Canadian man, Andrew Frelon, created a hoax around an AI-assisted 'band' called The Velvet Sundown. He posed as their spokesperson, generated AI music and images, and fed false information to the media, leading to increased attention and streams for the band. The band's official X account admitted to using AI to compose, voice and visualize the music. | The Velvet Sundown, Media Outlets | Audio, Image | CBC |
| Jul 05, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department posted an evidence picture of a drug bust that had been digitally altered using AI. They initially denied using AI but later apologized. The AI was used to add the department's logo to the image but accidentally altered other parts of the image, such as the names of some of the drugs. This generated criticism and concerns about law enforcement adopting AI, potentially increasing mistrust of the police. | Public perception of Westbrook Police Department | Image | Newsradio WGAN | |
| Jul 05, 2025 | A contractor allegedly used AI to generate a fake image of a paved road from an unpaved road. The contractor sent the image to a supervising government engineer via WhatsApp, who then approved payment without inspection. | Supervising government engineer | Image | Times of India |
| Jul 05, 2025 | Users are exploiting Google's Veo 3 to create racist videos depicting protesters being run over by cars, reenacting historical traumas, and perpetuating racist stereotypes on TikTok. The videos are tagged as being created with Veo 3 and have garnered hundreds of thousands to over a million views. | Marginalized groups, protesters | Video | InsideHook |
| Jul 04, 2025 | A fake AI-generated image of a 'waterfall from the sky' in Red Deer was shared widely on social media, accompanied by false claims about a weather event. The post included fake statements from Environment Canada. | Red Deer, Alberta | Image | Red Deer Advocate |
| Jul 04, 2025 | AI-generated music is crowding out human-created music on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. The AI "band" The Velvet Sundown has over 750,000 monthly listeners and was created using AI. The influx of AI music makes it difficult for human artists to compete and discern real music from AI generated music. | Human musicians in lo-fi and similar genres | Audio | Futurism |
| Jul 04, 2025 | An elderly Malaysian couple traveled 370km after seeing an AI-generated video of a cable car ride. The video featured a fake news segment with a reporter introducing the 'Kuak Skyride' and included interviews with tourists. Upon arrival, they discovered the cable car didn't exist and the video was AI-generated. The couple expressed a desire to sue the fake journalist. | Elderly Malaysian couple | Video | the-independent.com |
| Jul 03, 2025 | An indie band, The Velvet Sundown, gained popularity on Spotify, leading to speculation about whether their music and promotional images are AI-generated. Music producer Rick Beato identified artifacts in their tracks, suggesting AI creation. The band has denied being AI generated but Deezer has reported that 100% of their tracks were created using AI. There are also claims of unauthorized interviews and fake profiles impersonating the band. | The Velvet Sundown (Indie band) | Audio, Image | NBC News |
| Jul 03, 2025 | The Velvet Sundown is suspected of being an AI-generated band. The band has posted AI-generated pictures of band members on social media. Their music sounds like it could have been generated in an AI music tool, like Suno. This diverts revenue away from real bands. Spotify and Apple are streaming the band's music while not flagging it as AI. | The Velvet Sundown, Real Musicians | Image, Audio | TechRadar |
| Jul 03, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department in Maine posted an image of a narcotics seizure to Facebook that appeared to be enhanced by AI. The image was quickly identified as AI-manipulated due to visual artifacts. The department admitted an officer used an AI app to add a department patch, which inadvertently mutated the entire image. | Public trust in Westbrook Police Department | Image | VICE |
| Jul 03, 2025 | Christopher L. O’Neill is accused of creating deepfake nude images of a known underage girl using AI. These images placed her face on the bodies of naked females in various sexual poses. Audio recordings of her voice were also found. He uploaded nearly 700 image and video files showing prepubescent girls and boys performing sex acts or sexually explicit poses. | Underage girl | Image, Audio | PhillyBurbs |
| Jul 03, 2025 | Andrew Frelon created a band called The Velvet Sundown using Suno, an AI music generator. The band gained over half a million listeners on Spotify before Frelon admitted it was AI-generated. This raised questions about royalties and Spotify's policies regarding AI-generated content. | Spotify (in a broad sense, regarding royalties and platform integrity), listeners | Audio | Futurism |
| Jul 03, 2025 | Racist AI-generated videos depicting negative stereotypes of Black people as monkeys, absent parents, or criminals, as well as antisemitic tropes and clips targeting immigrants, were uploaded to TikTok. Evidence suggests the videos were made using Google's Veo 3 tool. The videos are designed to outrage users and encourage reactions. Similar videos were also found on YouTube and Instagram. | Black people in the United States, immigrants, Jewish people | Video | PCMag |
| Jul 03, 2025 | Racist videos, reportedly created with Google’s Veo 3, have gone viral on TikTok. These short clips rely on harmful stereotypes, primarily targeting Black people. According to Media Matters, some videos also contain antisemitic content and racist portrayals of immigrants and Asians. The videos are brief, often just eight seconds long. | Black people, Jewish people, immigrants, and Asians | Video | autogpt.net |
| Jul 02, 2025 | Racist videos likely created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3, have gained millions of views on TikTok. These videos contain racist tropes, particularly targeting Black people. Some videos contained antisemitic content and racist depictions of immigrants and Asian people. | Black people, Immigrants, Asian people | Video | The Verge |
| Jul 02, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department admitted that an image posted of drugs seized during a bust was altered using ChatGPT. An officer used the AI to add the department's patch to the image, but it inadvertently altered other parts of the image, creating gibberish on the drug packaging. The department initially insisted the photo was real, but later deleted the post and apologized, posting the original, unaltered photo. | Westbrook Police Department's reputation | Image | Latin Times |
| Jul 02, 2025 | TikTok is experiencing a surge in racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos created using Google's Veo 3. These videos, which are up to eight seconds long and carry the "Veo" watermark, employ harmful stereotypes targeting Black people, immigrants, and Jewish people. Despite TikTok's hate speech policies, the videos are spreading, highlighting concerns about content moderation. | Black people, immigrants, and Jewish people | Video | Ars Technica |
| Jul 02, 2025 | Racist and antisemitic AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 are being posted on TikTok, depicting Black people in stereotypical and offensive ways, as well as targeting immigrants and Jewish people. The videos violate TikTok's terms of service regarding hate speech. | Black people, immigrants, Jewish people | Video | Ars Technica |
| Jul 02, 2025 | The article discusses the proliferation of AI-generated newscasts, focusing on examples found on platforms like TikTok and Telegram. These synthetic videos mimic real news segments and are used to spread misinformation, manipulate opinion, or generate views. Specific examples include fake reports about military convoys in London, false claims related to the conflicts in Israel and Iran and the US immigration authority ICE in Los Angeles. Additionally, Taiwanese researchers flagged AI-generated newscasts that falsely accused pro-sovereignty politicians of corruption, potentially undermining the credibility of news outlets ahead of elections. The article also details how to spot fake newscasts and the economic incentives driving their creation. | General public and specific political figures in Taiwan | Video | DW |
| Jul 02, 2025 | A 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of his classmate celebrating her bat mitzvah to create a deepfake nude he then shared on Snapchat. | 13-year-old girl in Wisconsin | Image | The 19th News |
| Jul 02, 2025 | Westbrook Police Department posted an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media. The photo was edited using ChatGPT to add the department's logo, which inadvertently changed other elements in the photo, such as removing stickers, altering lettering, and changing colors of items. Commenters noticed the discrepancies, leading to the department issuing an apology. | The public, in terms of presenting accurate evidence. The integrity of the police department. | Image | WGME |
| Jul 01, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department altered a photo of evidence from a drug bust using ChatGPT's image tools to add the department's emblem. The AI altered text and cropped parts of the evidence, leading to accusations of fake evidence. The department admitted to using AI and clarified the intention was not to mislead but to identify the responsible department. | Public perception of the Westbrook Police Department and potentially the legal case related to the drug bust. | Image | newscentermaine.com |
| Jul 01, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department shared an AI-altered photo of seized drugs on their Facebook page. An officer used a photo editing app with ChatGPT to add the department's patch to the photo, which unintentionally altered the drug packaging. The department apologized, stating they didn't intend to alter the image of the evidence. | Evidence of seized drugs in a police drug bust | Image | WMTW |
| Jul 01, 2025 | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted an AI-generated image of alligators wearing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hats to its official social media channels. The image was posted on X and Instagram on June 28, 2025. AI-detection platforms suggested a 99% likelihood that the image was created with AI. The post was an apparent reference to the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center. | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the White House | Image | Snopes |
| Jul 01, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created using ChatGPT to depict the FOX43 studio flooded with 12 inches of water. The image was realistic, with reflections of lights in the water. The teleprompter and screen graphics in the image were jumbled and nonsensical, which is a telltale sign of an AI-generated image. This was used as a warning to highlight the potential for scams using AI-generated images of storm damage. | FOX43 studio | Image | fox43.com |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Operation Overload and Matryoshka, a pro-Russia disinformation campaign, uses AI tools to create and spread false narratives. They use AI image generators like Flux AI to create fake images (e.g., depicting Muslim migrants rioting) and AI voice cloning to manipulate videos (e.g., falsely portraying Isabelle Bourdon encouraging riots). The content is disseminated via Telegram, social media, and email campaigns. | Ukraine, German citizens, Isabelle Bourdon | Image, Video, Audio | WIRED |
| Jul 01, 2025 | The Westbrook Police Department allegedly used an AI-generated photo or a heavily altered photo presented as an AI-generated photo of evidence seized during a drug bust. The photo shared on their Facebook page contained nonsense text on packages, leading to speculation that it was AI-generated. The police department stated that an officer used a 'photoshop app' to add the department's patch, which unintentionally altered the packaging and other attributes in the photograph. | Westbrook Police Department | Image | The Maine Wire |
| Jul 01, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Black women as "bigfoot baddies" are going viral on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. These videos perpetuate racist tropes by portraying Black women as primates, using caricatured African American Vernacular English, and showing them in stereotypical situations. One popular Instagram account has multiple videos with over a million views, and copycat accounts are reposting or creating similar content. The bio of one account links to a course teaching users how to create such videos. The algorithms on these platforms further amplify the spread of these racist videos. | Black women | Video | WIRED |
| Jul 01, 2025 | AI-generated videos on Instagram and TikTok depict Black women as primates ('bigfoot baddies'), perpetuating racist tropes using AI video tools like Google's Veo 3. The videos often feature caricatured African American Vernacular English, and the characters are shown in dehumanizing situations. One video implies a character stored Hennessy liquor in her genitals, and another shows a 'bigfoot' dodging bombs in Israel while wanting to be resurrected with a BBL. | Black women | Video | WIRED |
| Jul 01, 2025 | An AI-generated rock band called 'The Velvet Sundown' has amassed over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify. Their music, images, and bio appear to be AI-generated, which raises questions about the manipulation of Spotify's playlist system. | The Music Industry, potentially listeners of real artists | Audio | Louder |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are spreading on TikTok, using Google's Veo 3. These videos traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals, showing imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken, reenacting marginalized groups’ historical traumas, depicting concentration camps and Ku Klux Klan attacks on Black Americans, violence against protesters, negative stereotypes about South Asian people and Jewish people | Black people, immigrants, protesters, other racial and ethnic groups | Video | Media Matters for America |
| Jul 01, 2025 | A company cloned a YouTuber's voice for ads without asking permission. | YouTuber (unspecified name) | Audio | Little Black Book | LBBOnline |
| Jun 30, 2025 | A band called The Velvet Sundown, suspected to be AI-generated, debuted on Spotify and amassed over half a million listeners. The band has released two albums, and its songs have been added to user-created playlists. The band's Instagram account shows inconsistencies and unrealistically smooth images, suggesting AI generation. | Spotify users | Audio, Image | Ars Technica |
| Jun 30, 2025 | An engineering company in Hong Kong lost $25 million when an employee was tricked by AI fraudsters who used video conferencing along with face and voice cloning to impersonate senior management. The employee transferred millions of dollars into offshore bank accounts. | Engineering company in Hong Kong | Video, Audio | mindmatters.ai |
| Jun 30, 2025 | The band The Velvet Sundown, with over 470,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, is suspected of being AI-generated. Deezer has flagged The Velvet Sundown’s albums as AI-generated content. The band's Spotify bio is vague, and members listed appear to be AI generated. The album covers and Instagram photos also appear AI-generated. The singer's voice varies between tracks, and the music lacks a cohesive, human quality. | Spotify, Music Industry, Artists | Audio, Image | TechRadar |
| Jun 30, 2025 | An AI-generated band, The Velvet Sundown, appeared on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and YouTube and has garnered enough streams to make thousands of dollars a month. The band has no prior digital footprint and its members do not appear to exist. Images on the band's Instagram page appear to be AI-generated. | Real music artists on Spotify | Audio, Image | Futurism |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Nashville meteorologist Bree Smith was the target of deepfake sexualized images where her face was edited onto other people’s semi-nude bodies. She testified at the Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee and shared her experience of finding hundreds of fake accounts with the images. | Bree Smith | Image | WSMV |
| Jun 30, 2025 | A deepfake audio clip was circulated during Slovakia's 2023 elections, sparking a debate about the susceptibility of democratic processes to AI-driven manipulations. | Slovakia's 2023 elections | Audio | OpenTools |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Mentions several instances: Romania redo election due to AI manipulation; AI-generated TikTok video showing Donald Trump endorsing a far-right candidate in Poland; fake video tied to Russia showed Kamala Harris saying that Trump refused to die with dignity. | Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, other politicians | Video | Media Nation |
| Jun 30, 2025 | The South Dakota Department of Homeland Security (DHS), run by Kristi Noem, shared an AI-generated image on social media promoting a controversial immigration detention center called 'Alligator Alcatraz'. The image depicted four alligators wearing 'ICE' caps by a barbed-wire fence, referencing the threat to migrants from alligators and pythons in the Everglades. The post was condemned as dehumanizing and disgusting, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit to halt the project. | Immigrants, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Environmental Groups | Image | HuffPost |
| Jun 30, 2025 | A finance worker transferred $39 million after joining a video call where deepfake scammers impersonated their chief finance officer and colleagues. | Finance worker in Hong Kong | Video | inkl |
| Jun 30, 2025 | A video featuring a watermark for an AI-generation tool that shows a city skyline disrupted by five explosions and multiple mushroom clouds was miscaptioned online as eyewitness footage of Iran attacking a U.S. air base in Qatar. The video shows the viewpoint of a person filming on their phone as each explosion expels a cloud of grey dust that appears to engulf buildings in the nighttime landscape. | U.S. air base in Qatar | Video | Reuters |
| Jun 30, 2025 | AI generated music mimicking Drake and The Weeknd went viral on TikTok. | Drake, The Weeknd | Audio | Vocal |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Belgian editions of Elle, Marie Claire and Psychologies used AI to generate fake journalists with AI-generated photos and profiles to write articles. In the case of Psychologies, the AI journalist presented itself as an experienced psychologist providing advice, raising ethical concerns. | Readers of Belgian editions of Elle, Marie Claire and Psychologies | Image | The Times |
| Jun 29, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an AI-generated image to promote the new immigration detention center, "Alligator Alcatraz." The image shows alligators wearing ICE hats outside the facility. | Migrants/Immigration advocates | Image | CiberCuba |
| Jun 29, 2025 | The article mentions incidents involving a fake video of Denmark's Prime Minister and legal attempts against creators of pornographic deepfakes as the impetus for the proposed legislation. The law aims to protect citizens' images and voices by prohibiting the use of an individual's likeness or voice without their consent. | Denmark's Prime Minister, creators of pornographic deepfakes | Video | AzerNews |
| Jun 28, 2025 | An executive in Japan was conned into approving a transfer of tens of millions of dollars. The executive was on a team's call with the board, but every single person on the call was a deep fake. They instructed him to make the payment to another company, but it was a scam. | Executive in Japan | Audio, Video | Business Insider Africa |
| Jun 28, 2025 | Allies of Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte shared a viral video of AI-generated characters last week in a bid to defend the embattled politician from a looming impeachment trial. The video featured two AI-generated schoolboys criticizing the impeachment trial as “politically motivated” and an example of “selective” justice. | Sara Duterte | Video | Fortune |
| Jun 27, 2025 | AI-generated videos surfaced online purporting to show dramatic scenes from the Iran-Israel conflict, including an AI-generated woman reporting from a burning prison in Tehran and fake footage of high-rise buildings reduced to rubble in Tel Aviv, and a downed Israeli military aircraft. One specific video circulated on X showing an explosion at the entrance of Evin Prison after an Israeli strike, but experts believe it was AI-generated due to visual anomalies. | Iranian government | Video | CBS News |
| Jun 27, 2025 | After her government announced that it was abolishing a Christian public holiday, the right-wing populist Danish People’s Party released a video of a fake press conference where Frederiksen appeared to say she would scrap all the other religious holidays, including Easter and Christmas. The clip, which was presented as a dream sequence and clearly labelled as AI-manipulated content, prompted debate about the acceptable boundaries of the technology. | Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s Social Democratic prime minister | Video | The Times |
| Jun 27, 2025 | MrBeast released an AI thumbnail generator that allowed users to generate video thumbnails by mimicking aspects of existing video art, including swapping in faces and other modifications. This led to criticism that it could steal artists' hard work. MrBeast shut down the feature in response. | Artists and creators whose work was mimicked | Image | Business Insider |
| Jun 27, 2025 | An AI-generated woman on X (formerly Twitter) asked Vince Neil if she could DM him the nudie version of a photo and he responded yes. | Vince Neil | Image | Metal Injection |
| Jun 27, 2025 | A producer was arrested in September for defrauding the music industry by releasing and automating the streaming of thousands of AI-generated songs per day. | Music Industry | Audio | Movieguide |
| Jun 26, 2025 | AI-generated images and videos are circulating online, depicting destroyed buildings and downed aircraft in the context of the Israel-Iran conflict. These deepfakes are being used to spread false claims and influence perceptions of the conflict. There was also a claim that an image shared by Gavin Newsom was AI-generated. | Israel and Iran War, Gavin Newsom | Image, Video | NPR |
| Jun 26, 2025 | An Ohio man, James Strahler II, created pornographic deepfake videos and images of at least 10 people, including ex-girlfriends and their families, and sent them to the victims’ family and coworkers. He also uploaded AI-generated nude photos of one victim to porn sites and created morphed images of child pornography. | Ex-girlfriends and their families | Image, Video | 404 Media |
| Jun 25, 2025 | James Strahler II is accused of using AI-generated pornographic images and videos to harass at least 10 adults, including former romantic partners, their families, and coworkers. He also superimposed victims' children's faces on adult bodies. He sent threatening messages and sexually violent content. He used social media images to create pornographic AI images and posted them on pornographic websites. He posed as the first victim on an online pornographic website and provided AI-generated images and video to at least one person. | Multiple women (ex-partners, their mothers and coworkers) | Image, Video | The Columbus Dispatch |
| Jun 25, 2025 | A YouTube video claimed to feature a speech by Pope Leo XIV. Grok, an AI-powered search tool, identified the video as AI-generated, meaning the papal message was likely a deepfake. Even if doctrinally sound, deepfake content can be dangerous because it undermines trust. | Catholic Church/Pope Leo XIV | Video | Relevant Radio |
| Jun 24, 2025 | A 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of his classmate celebrating her bat mitzvah to create a deepfake nude he then shared on Snapchat. | Classmate (female) | Image | Tech Policy Press |
| Jun 23, 2025 | AI programs used work of wood carver Michael Jones to generate images of people next to 'his' carvings. John Oliver then had Jones create a real wood carving of a bizarre AI-generated image as a form of retaliation and highlighting AI's flaws. | Michael Jones (indirectly, initially); AI image generators | Image | TheWrap |
| Jun 23, 2025 | AI generated images of American B-2 bombers in Iran | American B-2 bombers | Image | BBC |
| Jun 23, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting Rahul Gandhi at Alex Soros and Huma Abedin’s wedding went viral. The image was confirmed to be AI-generated by multiple AI detection tools and contained a 'Grok' watermark. The faces of the individuals appeared unrealistic, and there were distortions in the image, such as a distorted hand and merged fingers. | Rahul Gandhi, Huma Abedin, Alexander Soros | Image | FACTLY |
| Jun 23, 2025 | An old video of Selina Dagdag was manipulated using AI, with fake voiceovers and new material added, to falsely promote a scam product called “Dr Eddy Healing Drops.” The video was originally filmed two years prior for a different product endorsement. | Selina Dagdag | Video, Audio | OneSports.PH |
| Jun 23, 2025 | An employee was suspended after sexually explicit voicemails, later proven to be AI-generated deepfakes, were left for a company executive. The employee was treated as guilty until proven innocent and faced a three-week ordeal to clear their name. The perpetrator remains unknown. | Company executive | Audio | Anchorage Daily News |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Deepfake video altered Mrs Persad-Bissar and Roger Alexander’s greeting after his onstage political introduction to manufacture a fake kiss from the footage. | Mrs. Persad-Bissar and Roger Alexander | Video | Tech News TT |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal issued a public warning about scams evolving at an alarming rate involving impersonation of law enforcement officials and the use of AI for voice cloning to impersonate family members to extort money. Scammers are also impersonating senior executives on WhatsApp. | General Public in Tamil Nadu, India | Audio | India Today |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Scammers impersonate family members using cloned voices to extort money. | Public | Audio | India Today |
| Jun 22, 2025 | A middle school teacher in Florida, David McKeown, was arrested for allegedly downloading and sharing child pornography and animal abuse images. Some of the images may have been AI-generated using photos of his students. He allegedly used school internet to download and share the images. | Students of UBIC Academy | Image | New York Post |
| Jun 22, 2025 | North Korean hackers deepfaked the company's leadership team in a Zoom call to trick a crypto employee. They used a malicious Zoom extension to install malware on the employee's macOS. | Crypto employee | Video | Komando.com |
| Jun 22, 2025 | AI-generated obituaries created using harvested data from social media posts about the deceased. These obituaries contained inaccuracies, distortions, and even false information about the cause of death and funeral arrangements. YouTube videos were also created with AI voiceovers reading the fake obituaries accompanied by stock photos. | Jamie (deceased) and her family | Audio, Image | CNET |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Iranians abroad are encountering AI voices answering calls to family in Iran. The voices deliver unsettling messages, possibly a government tactic to disrupt communication or spread confusion amidst rising tensions. | Iranian diaspora attempting to contact family in Iran | Audio | Times of India |
| Jun 21, 2025 | When Iranian citizens living abroad attempt to call their family in Iran, they are met with strange, robotic voices. These voices say unusual things and prevent the caller from reaching their family member. Security experts suspect the Iranian or Israeli government is behind the incident. | Iranian citizens living abroad trying to contact family in Iran | Audio | The Indian Express |
| Jun 21, 2025 | During the Israel-Iran conflict, Iranians living abroad are encountering AI voices answering their calls to family in Iran. These voices deliver disturbing pre-recorded messages and are believed to be government tactics to control information or potentially a tactic employed by Israel to spread confusion. | Iranians living abroad | Audio | Republic World |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Iranians abroad reported hearing AI-generated voices, specifically one calling itself 'Alyssia,' when attempting to call relatives in Iran. This occurred amidst rising tensions between Iran and Israel and coincided with internet and phone blackouts imposed by the Iranian government. The AI voice replaced real conversations, causing confusion and alarm, with some suspecting psychological warfare. | Iranians abroad attempting to contact relatives in Iran | Audio | thedailyjagran.com |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Hoda Kotb, former Today host, was used in a deepfake YouTube advertisement to promote sketchy weight loss tricks, specifically Exi Shred diet pills. The deepfake used an altered version of a real video and was sophisticated enough to slip past YouTube's ad review process. | Hoda Kotb | Video | Mashable |
| Jun 21, 2025 | An AI-generated video was falsely shared on social media platforms (X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram) claiming to show the destruction in Tel Aviv after an Iranian attack. The video, created using Google AI, was identified by a watermark. The video predates the attack and was originally posted with hashtags related to South Lebanon. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Video | Yahoo |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Falsified footage of United Kingdom-based activist Tommy Robinson’s viral migrant‑landing video. | Tommy Robinson | Video | The Indian Express |
| Jun 21, 2025 | A middle school teacher was arrested for allegedly using student photos to create AI-generated pornography and sharing child pornography on Discord. | Students of a middle school in Central Florida | Image | FOX 35 Orlando |
| Jun 20, 2025 | During the Israel-Iran conflict, AI-generated videos and images were used to spread disinformation. Examples include fake videos boasting of Iran's military capabilities and fake clips showing the aftermath of strikes on Israeli targets. AI-generated images exaggerated the success of Iran's response, such as depicting missiles falling on Tel Aviv and claims of destruction of Israeli F-35 fighter jets. Pro-Israeli accounts also shared disinformation, including AI-generated videos purporting to show Iranians chanting 'we love Israel'. State media in Tehran shared fake footage of strikes and an AI-generated image of a downed F-35 jet. The disinformation was spread on X, TikTok, and Instagram. | Israeli government, Iranian government, general public | Video, Image | BBC |
| Jun 20, 2025 | A middle school teacher in Florida, David McKeown, was arrested for allegedly using real student photos to create AI-generated pornographic images. He is accused of sharing and downloading child pornography, potentially using students' photos to create the AI-generated content. The investigation began after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Devices were seized from his home and the school, and he faces multiple charges related to child sex abuse material. | Students of UBIC Academy | Image | FOX 35 Orlando |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Iranians living abroad receive strange, robotic voices when attempting to call their loved ones in Iran. The voices deliver bizarre messages, causing distress and hindering communication during a time of crisis and conflict. | Iranian citizens and their relatives abroad | Audio | AP News |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Midjourney's AI video tool V1 generated short animated clips of Disney and Universal characters (e.g., Wall-E, Yoda) in potentially infringing or inappropriate scenarios (e.g., Wall-E holding a gun, Yoda smoking a joint). This occurred despite some guardrails intended to block such generation. Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. | Disney, Universal | Video | WIRED |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Midjourney's AI video tool V1 generates animated clips of copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, including Wall-E holding a gun. Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. Guardrails are incomplete, allowing generation of clips of characters like Homer Simpson, Shrek, Minions, Deadpool, C-3PO, and Darth Vader. It was possible to generate clips of copyrighted characters in adult situations, like Wall-E brandishing a firearm and Yoda smoking a joint. | Disney and Universal (copyrighted characters) | Video, Image | WIRED |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Scammers are using deep fakes to impersonate victims’ family members in order to steal their money. Malicious actors have been creating texts or deepfaked audio messages that impersonate top government officials, part of a scam to trick current or former senior federal and state government leaders. | Seniors, families, small business owners, government officials | Audio | CyberScoop |
| Jun 20, 2025 | A viral TikTok video depicted a news anchor alleging that Iran planned to invade Florida. The video was generated by AI and spread panic across social media. The video contains red flags, such as an unnamed news anchor, unnatural pauses, an eight-second clip, and a map with geographical inaccuracies. The video lacks branding to identify the news anchor or network. | Florida, USA | Video | Pensacola News Journal |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Music streamer Deezer is flagging AI-generated songs due to a surge in music created using AI tools, which are being used to fraudulently earn royalties. Deezer has detected that 18% of songs uploaded to its platform each day are completely AI generated. Fraudsters are creating and uploading AI-generated songs to streaming platforms, trying to get them onto playlists and recommendations, and earning royalties as a result. Deezer is fighting this by flagging AI-generated content and cutting off royalty payments for AI songs used for stream manipulation. A specific case is mentioned where a man was charged with generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs and using bots to stream them billions of times, earning at least $10 million. | Deezer, musicians, copyright holders | Audio | New York Post |
| Jun 20, 2025 | A digitally created image falsely depicts Donald Trump with a teenage girl, falsely implying a connection to Jeffrey Epstein's island. The image contains AI-related errors, such as distorted body parts. Trump's spokesperson confirmed the image as fake. | Donald Trump | Image | Full Fact |
| Jun 20, 2025 | An AI-generated video falsely depicts Israeli citizens protesting and pleading with Iran to stop the war. The video contains inconsistencies like unnatural facial features, spelling errors and a 'Veo' watermark. AI detection tools confirmed it was AI-generated. | Israel | Video | FACTLY |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Mai Fujimoto, a crypto influencer, had her X, Telegram and Metamask accounts compromised after being induced to click a link during a Zoom call with a compromised account of her acquaintance. | Mai Fujimoto | The Cryptonomist | |
| Jun 20, 2025 | North Korea’s BlueNoroff used AI-generated replicas of company executives in a Zoom call to trick a Web3 worker into downloading a malicious Zoom extension that installed malware on a macOS system. The attack began through a Telegram message that redirected the victim to a fake Zoom site. The malware included keyloggers, information stealers, and remote access tools. | Employee at a cryptocurrency foundation | Video, Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Jun 20, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely claimed to show a downed Israeli F-35 jet in Iran. The image, circulated online after Iranian state media claims, contained AI-generated distortions, mismatched symbols, and scale inconsistencies. The aircraft's markings did not match those used on actual Israeli F-35s, and people near the aircraft appeared the same size as buses. | Israeli government/military | Image | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Jun 20, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely claimed to show a downed Israeli F-35 fighter jet after Iranian state media reported shooting down two Israeli jets. The image contained visual inconsistencies typical of AI-generated content and did not match actual F-35 photos. | Israeli F-35 fighter jets | Image | Yahoo |
| Jun 20, 2025 | A falsified news story was made to appear as if it was published on SanAngeloLIVE.com. The fabricated article references a real incident—a shooting that occurred Wednesday, June 18, 2025, involving a sheriff’s deputy and a subject at a residence in Buffalo Heights. San Angelo LIVE! is pursuing legal action against the individuals responsible. | San Angelo LIVE! | Image | sanangelolive.com |
| Jun 20, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting missiles falling on Tel Aviv circulated on social media in June 2025. The image was created by an AI artist and spread widely, causing confusion. The image was debunked by OSINT and disinformation experts who pointed out inconsistencies and the creator's watermark. | Tel Aviv | Image | Snopes.com |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Google is training AI models like Gemini and Veo 3 on YouTube videos. Veo 3 created videos very similar to existing YouTube content of creator Brodie Moss, with a score of 71 for the video and over 90 for just the audio. Creators feel their work is being used unfairly, without credit, consent, or payment. | Brodie Moss, YouTube Creators | Video, Audio | TipRanks |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A deepfake video was created portraying Peter Obi praising Ibrahim Traoré. The video was created using AI-generated speech overlaid on existing video footage of Peter Obi. The audio did not match Peter Obi's known speech patterns, featuring a forced foreign accent. The speaker's mouth movements were unnaturally blurred and poorly synchronized with the audio. | Peter Obi | Video, Audio | Dubawa |
| Jun 19, 2025 | AI-generated news reports falsely claimed Aurora Cannabis was acquiring MedLeaf Therapeutics for $215 million and forming a partnership with MediPharm GmbH. These reports quoted the CEO and cited SEC filings, leading to a drop in Aurora's stock price. Aurora Cannabis has denied these reports and stated they are taking the situation seriously. | Aurora Cannabis | Yahoo | |
| Jun 19, 2025 | North Korean BlueNoroff gang used deepfake Zoom calls to target tech company employees. Hackers sent Telegram messages with deceptive links leading to a fake Zoom domain. This resulted in the installation of malicious binaries, including crypto info stealers and surveillance programs, on victims' MacBooks. | Tech company employees using MacBooks | Video | HotHardware |
| Jun 19, 2025 | An AI-generated video was created showing a fake protest in Israel. The video depicted people carrying Israeli flags and placards, chanting for Pakistan to help stop attacks by Iran. Analysis confirmed the video was AI-generated due to anomalies in the footage, high tamper scores, and detection by AI content detection platforms. | Israel | Video | Geo News |
| Jun 19, 2025 | AI-generated video shows a fake protest in Israel asking Pakistan for help amidst the Israel-Iran conflict. The video was analyzed using AI content detection platforms (Attestiv and Hive Moderation), which confirmed the high likelihood of it being AI-generated due to tampering and visible anomalies like overly smooth faces. No US or Israeli news outlets reported any such protest. | Israel | Video | Geo News |
| Jun 19, 2025 | North Korea-aligned BlueNoroff used deepfake Zoom calls of company executives to trick a Web3 employee into installing malware on their macOS device. The employee was contacted via Telegram and a Calendly link which redirected to a fake Zoom domain. During the Zoom call, deepfakes of senior leadership urged the employee to install a malicious Zoom extension due to microphone issues, leading to the installation of malware. | Web3 employee | Video | The Hacker News |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A customer attempted to use an AI-edited image to fraudulently claim a refund from a Tsim Sha Tsui izakaya for a Keeta takeaway order. The customer claimed to have received the wrong order and submitted a manipulated photo as proof. The restaurant owner identified inconsistencies in the photo, leading to the rejection of the refund request. | TST Izakaya | Image | Dimsum Daily |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A netizen was scammed by a friend using ChatGPT to manipulate bank transaction screenshots to appear as if payments were made. The victim only discovered the scam after auditing her account and realizing none of the transactions had gone through. The perpetrator defrauded other classmates using the same method. | Netizen and other classmates | Image | Inquirer.net |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A deepfake video was created depicting President Anura Kumara Dissanayake endorsing a fraudulent investment scheme promising high returns. The voice in the video doesn't match the President's actual voice and the registration link leads to a fake Daily Mirror article featuring a fabricated interview. The Presidential Media Division confirmed the video was AI-generated. | President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sri Lankan citizens | Video, Audio | Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka |
| Jun 19, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Vijay Mallya and Supriya Shrinate went viral on social media. The image was found to be AI-generated with a 99% probability by multiple AI image detection tools due to inconsistencies in Shrinate's facial structure. | Supriya Shrinate and Vijay Mallya | Image | Vishvas News |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the company behind the CrushAI app, which uses AI to create fake nude images of people without their consent. Joy Timeline HK Limited allegedly violated Meta’s rules by running CrushAI ads with at least 170 business accounts it created on Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram. Some of the ads included AI-generated nude or sexually explicit images with captions such as “upload a photo to strip for a minute” and “erase any clothes on girls,” | Individuals whose images were used in the CrushAI app | Image | Hong Kong Free Press |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Joy Timeline HK Limited used AI to generate fake nude images of people without their consent via the CrushAI app. They advertised the app on Facebook and Instagram using at least 170 business accounts. The ads included AI-generated nude or sexually explicit images with captions such as upload a photo to strip for a minute and erase any clothes on girls. | Users of Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram) | Image | Hong Kong Free Press |
| Jun 19, 2025 | AI-generated videos falsely depicting the aftermath of the Air India plane crash were circulated on Facebook. The videos were flagged as likely AI-generated by detection tools, and reverse image searches did not find corroborating reports from reliable media outlets. | General Public | Video | Rappler |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A Latin American fintech company detected over 30 percent more fraud attempts, including injection attacks and deepfakes, by using Jumio's new Liveness Premium solution. The attacks utilized AI-generated faces, synthetic overlays and injection techniques. | Latin American fintech company | Fintech Singapore | |
| Jun 19, 2025 | A man was arrested for uploading an AI-generated doctored video of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi on Facebook, allegedly depicting the Chief Minister in an obscene manner. The video was created with the intention of defaming the CM. | Mohan Majhi, Chief Minister of Odisha | Video | Asia News Network |
| Jun 18, 2025 | North Korean BlueNoroff group deepfaked company executives in a Zoom call to trick an employee into installing macOS malware. The attackers contacted the target on Telegram, posed as professionals, and used a fake Zoom domain. The deepfake videos featured recognizable senior leadership to add credibility. The victim was tricked into downloading a malicious Zoom extension that installed malware, leading to cryptocurrency theft. | Employee at a tech firm | Video | BleepingComputer |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Attackers posed as virtual legal assistants requesting account closures on behalf of customers using voice modulation. | major U.S. retailer | Audio | KnowBe4 blog |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Disney and NBCUniversal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI image generation tool allows users to create near-perfect copies of their characters (e.g., Darth Vader, Minions). They argue this infringes on their IP and could lead to lost revenue and brand damage if AI-generated images are distributed widely. | Disney and NBCUniversal | Image | IndieWire |
| Jun 18, 2025 | YouTuber Cr1TiKaL fooled his viewers with an AI-generated intro to his video to demonstrate the advancements in AI video generation. The intro included AI-generated script, visuals, and voice, created by a Reddit user. Cr1TiKaL cropped out the watermark and zoomed in to hide the hands, which are a common giveaway for AI-generated content. | Cr1TiKaL's viewers | Video | PetaPixel |
| Jun 18, 2025 | A scammer is impersonating the voice of WCPO 9 meteorologist Jennifer Ketchmark using AI software in Facebook messages to solicit money. The fake account is making friend requests and uses voice impersonation to sound like Jennifer. An example message is provided to illustrate the scam. | Jennifer Ketchmark and Facebook users | Audio | WCPO 9 Cincinnati |
| Jun 18, 2025 | A LATAM finance startup using Jumio Liveness Premium caught over 30% more sophisticated fraud attempts including injection attacks and deepfakes. | LATAM finance startup | Help Net Security | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Epic Games utilized AI for Star Wars' Darth Vader in Fortnite, allowing players to talk to the character and having him respond in the voice of the late James Earl Jones. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge against Epic Games, insisting that Epic Games had decided to use AI "without providing notice to the union or the opportunity to bargain." | James Earl Jones / Darth Vader | Audio | Bounding Into Comics |
| Jun 18, 2025 | AI-generated images of a known child abuse victim are being created, some of which are even more severe than the original abuse images. These images are circulating online alongside real images of child abuse, making it difficult to differentiate and potentially leading law enforcement to chase non-existent victims or miss real cases. | A victim of child abuse whose images had been circulating since 2011 | Image | BBC |
| Jun 18, 2025 | AI generated images that are more severe than images that were actually taken in reality. The victim was a real child sex abuse victim whose images had been circulating since 2011. Although her abuser was caught, and the girl eventually "went public" with her story, the images had been shared widely. | A real child sex abuse victim | Image | BBC |
| Jun 18, 2025 | AI-generated images, some more severe than the original abuse images, are circulating. The IWF first saw AI images in 2023, but reports quadrupled in 2024. | Real child sex abuse victim (Natalia) | Image | BBC |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Fraudulent streams of AI-generated music on Deezer, inflated by bots to collect royalty payments. Up to 70% of AI-generated music streams are fraudulent, with AI music accounting for 0.5% of streams. A specific case involves Michael Smith generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs and streaming them billions of times, obtaining $10 million in royalties. | Legitimate artists and Deezer | Audio | The Guardian |
| Jun 17, 2025 | AI-generated nude images were created using the faces of dozens of girls from Western Dubuque School District and other area schools. The photos were created by male students at Cascade High School. An investigation is underway by the Cascade Police Department and the Dubuque County Sheriff's Office. | Female students at Western Dubuque School District and other area schools | Image | KWWL |
| Jun 17, 2025 | A deepfake video surfaced online appearing to show Zoey Stark announcing her retirement from WWE, which caused concern among fans and her family. Stark later confirmed the video was AI-generated and that she is not retiring. | Zoey Stark | Video | Wrestling Inc. |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Police are warning about a rise in AI-generated deepfakes being used as a form of cyberbullying and harassment in schools. Nude images of children are being created and circulated. Approximately 4,000 sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of children and youth were generated last year. One in 10 youth say they know of cases where their friends and classmates have created “deepfake nudes” of other kids using AI-generated tools. | Children and youth in Alberta schools | Image, Video, Audio | Edmonton Journal |
| Jun 17, 2025 | AI-generated nude images and other forms of cyberbullying and harassment are targeting children and youth in schools. These deepfakes are being used to victimize children and youth, potentially leading to extortion. 4,000 sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of children and youth were generated last year. | Children and youth in Alberta schools | Image, Video, Audio | Edmonton Journal |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Users posted a fake news segment in multiple languages, including an anchor announcing the death of author J.K. Rowling. The article also mentions the potential for harassment using the technology. | J.K. Rowling | Video | The Week |
| Jun 17, 2025 | AI reanimations/deepfakes are used to make facsimiles of the dead. Christopher Pelkey's AI video reconstruction delivered a victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing of his killer. Dead Israeli singers were to be conjured using AI-generated sound and video for a concert. A deepfake version of Agatha Christie was created to teach a writing course. | Christopher Pelkey, Iconic Israeli Singers, Agatha Christie | Video, Audio | The Conversation |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa shared an AI-generated video featuring supposed students questioning the impeachment process against Vice President Sara Duterte. The video questioned why Duterte is being singled out. House prosecution panel spokesperson Antonio Audie Bucoy criticized Dela Rosa, stating that sharing a fake source propagates a lie and emphasizes bias. | Sara Duterte | Video | GMA Network |
| Jun 17, 2025 | AI-generated videos were falsely shared claiming they showed damage to Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion International Airport after Iran struck Israel with missiles. The videos were originally posted by a TikTok account that creates AI content. One video showed a heavily damaged airport, and another showed damaged buildings. | Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion International Airport | Video | Yahoo |
| Jun 17, 2025 | AI-generated images were circulated on Facebook and other social media platforms, falsely claiming that Iran had shot down a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit strategic bomber. The images showed inconsistencies, such as the bomber's size being disproportionate to people nearby, indicating they were created using AI. | U.S. Air Force, general public | Image | მითების დეტექტორი |
| Jun 17, 2025 | A fabricated TikTok story depicted a nonexistent Kansas City electrician and basketball coach, Andre Tillman, being arrested. The story, amplified by AI, garnered millions of views and spawned fraudulent GoFundMe campaigns before being debunked by police and removed from the platform. | Andre Tillman's Fictional Persona | KMBC | |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Timbaland allegedly used KFresh's beat without permission to create an AI-generated beat using Suno's AI, featuring an artist named C-Red rapping over it. Timbaland then created another version using his "Baby Timbo" AI. KFresh claims Timbaland never reached out to him for permission. | KFresh | Audio | Digital Music News |
| Jun 16, 2025 | AI-generated videos falsely using his likeness to promote miracle cures and wonder drugs. | Tom Hanks | Video | Quartz |
| Jun 16, 2025 | CrushAI used generative AI to create deepfake nudes from uploaded photos, which were then advertised on Instagram and Facebook. Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the company behind CrushAI, for violating its terms of service and circumventing enforcement. | Users of Facebook and Instagram, specifically in the U.S., UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia, with a focus on women. | Image | CEO Today |
| Jun 16, 2025 | A video surfaced depicting students defending Sara Duterte and opposing her impeachment. The video was determined to be AI-generated using Google's Veo, as indicated by the watermark. Deepware also flagged it as suspicious. The video was shared by a senator before it was identified as AI generated. | Sara Duterte | Video | Rappler |
| Jun 16, 2025 | A digitally altered or AI-generated image was circulated online purporting to show an Israeli F-35 fighter jet shot down by Iran. The image contained inconsistencies with the actual dimensions and markings of the aircraft. Iranian media outlets claimed the downing of Israeli jets, which Israel denied, calling it a "fake victory narrative." | Israeli army and public perception | Image | Snopes |
| Jun 14, 2025 | Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that Midjourney trained its AI on copyrighted images and enabled users to generate unauthorized reproductions of characters like Darth Vader and Homer Simpson. Getty Images also has a lawsuit against Stability AI for scraping millions of its copyrighted photos to train Stable Diffusion. | Disney, Universal, Getty Images | Image | Forbes |
| Jun 14, 2025 | A YouTube user created an AI-generated version of Ed Sheeran's song 'Sapphire' sung entirely by Arijit Singh, accompanied by an AI-generated image of both artists. Arijit Singh previously won a case against the misuse of his voice by AI platforms. | Arijit Singh, Ed Sheeran | Audio, Image | Mint |
| Jun 14, 2025 | A Hong Kong finance worker transferred $25 million to fraudsters after a video conference where every participant was a deepfake of company staff. | Hong Kong finance worker's company | Video | Tech Times |
| Jun 14, 2025 | Pornographic videos with the faces of female celebrities superimposed on other bodies were posted on Reddit in 2017. | Female Celebrities | Image, Video | The Regulatory Review |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Stephen King posted an AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump as a taco on social media, using Elon Musk's Grok AI. The image is part of a trolling campaign referencing Trump's policy flip-flops. | Donald Trump | Image | Indy100 |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is taking legal action against Joy Timeline HK Limited, the company behind the "CrushAI" app, which allows users to create AI-generated nude or sexually explicit images of individuals without their consent. The company attempted to circumvent Meta's ad review process after repeated removals of their ads for violating Meta's policies. | Individuals depicted in AI-generated nude or sexually explicit images created by the CrushAI app | Image | Social Media Today |
| Jun 12, 2025 | A student created an AI-generated nude image of a female student and shared it with other students at school. The victim was notified of the image's existence at school. The creator admitted to making the image and shared the website used. The school district did not discipline the student, leading the victim's mother to speak out. | Hingham Middle School student | Image | Boston.com |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the developer of Crush AI, an app that generates fake naked imagery. Hundreds of ads for similar apps were found on Meta platforms. An AI-generated video of Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo Nazário endorsing an online game was also found. Apple also removed generative AI apps that created nude images. | Individuals whose images are used in 'nudify' apps, Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo Nazário | Image, Video | PCMag |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the creator of the 'nudify' app CrushAI, which allows users to create sexually explicit images of people using AI. The lawsuit alleges the company circumvented Meta's ad review process to promote the app on Facebook and Instagram. Senator Dick Durbin cited a report estimating that 90% of CrushAI's traffic came from Meta's platforms. | People whose images are used in the CrushAI app | Image | Investopedia |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK for advertising 'nudify apps' like CrushAI that create AI-generated nude images without consent. Joy Timeline HK allegedly tried to circumvent Meta's ad review processes after violating its rules. The apps are used to create non-consensual sexual imagery used for sextortion, blackmail, and abuse. | Individuals whose images are used to create deepfake nudes | Image | Mint |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is suing CrushAI for advertising a deepfake app that creates sexually explicit deepfakes by circumventing Meta's rules. The ads targeted users in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK, and some featured AI-generated nude images. | Meta (Facebook and Instagram users) | Image | CNN |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Meta is suing the maker of the CrushAI app for creating and advertising sexually explicit deepfakes. The app allows users to create nude or sexualized images from a photo of someone’s face. The ads circumvented Meta’s rules and targeted users in multiple countries with phrases like 'upload a photo to strip for a minute' and 'erase any clothes on girls.' | Users of Meta Platforms (Facebook and Instagram) particularly in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom, and potentially celebrities and high school girls | Image | WCVB |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Joy Timeline HK Ltd. allegedly promoted "nudify" apps (CrushAI) that use AI to strip clothes from images and generate fake nude content without consent. The apps were promoted on Facebook and Instagram before Meta removed them. Meta states these tools are fueling sextortion, blackmail, and digital abuse. | Individuals whose images were used to create fake nudes | Image | Yahoo Finance |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, claiming the AI image generator creates unauthorized copies of their copyrighted characters and trains its video service on copyrighted materials. The lawsuit includes Midjourney-generated images of characters like Darth Vader, Minions, Shrek, and Yoda. | Disney, Universal, and the hard-working creative community | Image, Video | PC Gamer |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Disney and NBCUniversal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for copyright infringement. Midjourney allows users to generate images of copyrighted characters, which the studios claim is a violation of their copyright. Midjourney trained its AI model using copyrighted content downloaded from the Internet. | Disney, NBCUniversal, and their copyrighted characters (Darth Vader, Shrek, Yoda, Wall-E, Stormtroopers, Minions, characters from How to Train Your Dragon) | Image | Ars Technica |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney, an AI image generator, for copyright infringement. They allege that Midjourney allows users to recreate their copyrighted characters (e.g., from Marvel, Star Wars, Shrek) without proper licensing, using AI image generation technology. The lawsuit includes examples of generated images featuring iconic characters. | Disney and Universal | Image | CNET |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement due to the AI image generator creating images of characters from their movies and TV shows without permission. The studios claim Midjourney ignored requests to stop and is profiting from the unlicensed use of their intellectual property. | Disney and Universal | Image | NBC News |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Deepfake images of Aespa's Karina were used in a teaser for the Seoul Waterbomb 2025 festival without her consent. Fans expressed outrage, criticizing the festival organizers and Karina's management (SM) for allowing the use of AI and deepfake technology. SM had previously condemned the use of AI and deepfakes for their artists. | Aespa Karina | Image | Times of India |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Report details AI-generated deepfake impersonations, social engineering schemes, and Ponzi-style frauds. Deepfakes simulate text, voice messages, facial expressions and even actions. Fake video endorsements of investment platforms from public figures such as Singapore’s prime minister and Elon Musk are tactics used to exploit public trust via Telegram, X and other social media platforms. Sandeep Nailwal was impersonated via Zoom. | Public figures, platform executives, Sandeep Nailwal, Elon Musk, Singapore’s prime minister | Video, Audio, Image | Cointelegraph |
| Jun 10, 2025 | The article discusses Florida's new laws against deepfake pornography and other sexual offenses against children. It mentions Brooke Curry, whose image was used to create a fake image, and mentions other celebrities and women politicians have been targets of deepfake sexual imagery. | Brooke Curry, Taylor Swift, Jenna Ortega, Megan Thee Stallion, women politicians | Image | Tallahassee Democrat |
| Jun 07, 2025 | Lawyers cited fake cases generated by AI in court proceedings in England. In one case, a lawyer cited 18 cases that did not exist in a \u00a390 million lawsuit. In another, a lawyer cited five fake cases in a tenant’s housing claim. | UK Justice System | AP News | |
| Jun 06, 2025 | Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) displayed ads for 'nudify' apps that create sexually explicit deepfakes from uploaded images. The ads targeted men aged 18-65 and were active in the US, EU, and UK. Some ads used deepfake images of celebrities. The apps sometimes required payment to access 'exclusive' features. The generated content often bypassed age verification measures. These apps were available on Meta platforms and sometimes even Apple's app store. | Individuals whose images were used to create 'nudify' deepfakes, including celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway. Also, potentially minors if age verification is not in place. | Image | CBS News |
| Jun 05, 2025 | Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan claims a viral audio recording circulating on social media is a deepfake and not her voice. She alleges her communications may have been accessed to clone her voice and make fraudulent calls. She has involved her legal and security teams to investigate the matter. | Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan | Audio | TV360 Nigeria |
| Jun 05, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai promoting fraudulent investment schemes led to investors losing money. Scammers are using AI to create hyper-realistic videos that impersonate public figures to trick victims into sending money or sharing sensitive data. Brand abuse accounts for nearly one-third of all cybercrime incidents in India, with banking, retail, and government sectors bearing the brunt. | Nirmala Sitharaman, Sundar Pichai, Indian investors | Video | The Logical Indian |
| Jun 05, 2025 | AI-generated images falsely depicting Rekha in a hospital bed after a heart attack were circulated on social media. The images showed Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan visiting her. AI-detection tools identified inconsistencies and distortions indicative of AI generation. | Rekha | Image | News Mobile |
| Jun 05, 2025 | A viral audio and video clip allegedly featured Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accusing Senate President Godswill Akpabio of blackmailing President Bola Tinubu to orchestrate her imprisonment. She claims the voice in the video is not hers and has been cloned and manipulated. | Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan | Audio, Video | TheCable |
| Jun 05, 2025 | New Zealand MP Laura McLeod McClure created an AI-generated nude image of herself to demonstrate the ease with which deepfakes can be created and used to harm individuals, particularly women. She used this image to advocate for stricter laws against deepfake abuse during a parliamentary session, introducing the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill. | Laura McLeod McClure | Image | India TV News |
| Jun 05, 2025 | New Zealand MP Laura McClure displayed an AI-generated nude image of herself in Parliament to highlight the dangers of deepfake technology. The image was created online in less than five minutes. McClure is advocating for amending legislation to address the harm caused by deepfakes. | Laura McClure, New Zealand MP | Image | News18 |
| Jun 05, 2025 | A video circulating on social media falsely claims that former US President Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'total cokehead' during a press conference. Fact-checkers have debunked this claim, identifying the video as a deepfake. The original footage was from a White House press conference on May 12, 2025, where Trump did not make the alleged remarks about Zelenskyy. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Video | aapnews.aap.com.au |
| Jun 04, 2025 | AI-generated fake advertisements for herbal remedies and other products are circulating on digital platforms in Nigeria, misleading consumers with false claims and AI-generated testimonials. One case involved an advertisement for an herbal remedy claiming to cure over 200 diseases. | Nigerian consumers | Broadcast Media Africa | |
| Jun 04, 2025 | A paraglider named Peng Yujiang allegedly used AI-generated footage in a viral video claiming he was sucked into a storm. Analysis suggests the first five seconds of the video were likely AI-generated, with inconsistencies in the video, a Doubao AI watermark, and distortions in the footage, raising doubts about the authenticity of his story. | Public Perception of Peng Yujiang | Video | Global News |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Michael B. Erickson, a student at Northern Illinois University, was charged with multiple counts of child pornography after allegedly creating thousands of AI-generated images depicting underage victims in nude or sexual situations. He reportedly uploaded photos of victims to Telegram and used AI to remove their clothing. He also allegedly sold the photos to others. | Multiple underage victims | Image | FOX 32 Chicago |
| Jun 04, 2025 | An AI company used Kyle Barr's content from Gizmodo to create a deepfake video using their video generation model, Mirage Studio. The video used Barr's audio and a reference image to create an AI-generated video with visual distortions. | Kyle Barr | Video | Gizmodo |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Gizmodo writer used Captions' Mirage Studio to create a video using Gizmodo content. The AI tool used a video from Gizmodo's Instagram page, selected an "actor," and generated a new video with visual distortions and hallucinations. | Kyle Barr/Gizmodo | Video | Gizmodo |
| Jun 04, 2025 | An image was posted on Facebook purporting to show workers assembling electronic devices in Burkina Faso. The image was determined to be AI-generated due to flaws like nonsensical text, unnatural positioning of workers, and inconsistencies in the image. An AI detection tool confirmed a high probability of AI generation. The image was previously debunked when falsely attributed to Zambia. | Burkina Faso | Image | PesaCheck |
| Jun 04, 2025 | A Facebook page called '90's History' is generating AI pictures of Holocaust victims using their real names and stories taken from the Auschwitz Museum's posts. The museum has asked them to stop because it undermines the integrity of history and presents fictionalized performances as remembrance. The page copies real content but swaps real photos for AI-generated versions, misleading viewers. They never mention that the content is fake, while presenting themselves as a legitimate history page. | Holocaust victims and the Auschwitz Museum | Image | PetaPixel |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Benjamin Michael Jomaa is accused of sextorting three women by threatening to distribute AI-manipulated images of them online if they did not send him more intimate pictures or participate in a sexual act. He was arrested after police searched his home and seized electronic devices. | Three women in their 20s | Image | Yahoo |
| Jun 04, 2025 | A deepfake video using Anne Curtis' image was circulated on social media to promote a fake 'financial project'. Viva Artists Agency confirmed that Anne Curtis is not connected to the Facebook page promoting the project and that the video was made without her consent. | Anne Curtis | Video | Inquirer.net |
| Jun 04, 2025 | A 13-year-old male student used AI to undress photos of two female classmates taken from Instagram. These images were then shared on Snapchat. In a separate event, Elliston Berry, at age 14, had a fully clothed photo of herself manipulated using an AI-undressing app by a classmate and distributed to 2,400 students. | Two 13-year-old girls in Fox Point, Wisconsin, and Elliston Berry | Image | FOX6 News Milwaukee |
| Jun 03, 2025 | AI-generated voice messages claiming missed federal jury duty were used to scam residents. The calls directed individuals to contact a phone number and visit a website to extract money via bitcoin or prepaid cards. Over 800 calls were received by the Sheriff's Office. | Lancaster County residents | Audio | KHGI |
| Jun 03, 2025 | A robocall featuring the voice of President Joe Biden told residents to stay home and save their votes for the November general election. | New Hampshire voters | Audio | The Center Square |
| Jun 03, 2025 | Volkswagen used generative AI to create a deepfake version of the late Brazilian singer Elis Regina for an advertisement, stirring controversy around matters of consent. | Elis Regina (deceased) | Video | ZDNET |
| Jun 03, 2025 | A paragliding accident video involving Peng Yujian, posted on Douyin, is suspected to be partly AI-generated. The first five seconds of the video are believed to contain AI-generated images, with inconsistencies such as strange changes to the paraglider’s helmet and equipment. Several media outlets have removed the video. | Peng Yujian | Video | Gizmodo |
| Jun 03, 2025 | Fortnite used AI-generated voice technology to mimic the voice of a well-known villain NPC. This raises concerns about name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights, specifically concerning AI-recreated voices. The core issue revolves around whether AI-generated voices, built from past performances, are protected under existing NIL frameworks. | Voice actor/estate | Audio | Mondaq |
| Jun 03, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using AI to mimic Joe Bonamassa's voice and likeness. The video was designed to deceive fans and potentially scam them. The AI-generated voice was used to make it appear as though Bonamassa was creating a personalized video for a fan named 'Lizzie,' expressing affection and telling a story, likely with the intention of exploiting the relationship for financial gain or other malicious purposes. | Joe Bonamassa fans; Joe Bonamassa | Video, Audio | GuitarPlayer.com |
| Jun 03, 2025 | Scammers created a deepfake video of Joe Bonamassa using AI to generate a voice and altered video clip to mislead and scam fans. The deepfake depicts Bonamassa declaring love to someone named 'Lizzie'. Bonamassa has confirmed this to be a fake. | Joe Bonamassa's fans | Video, Audio | GuitarPlayer.com |
| Jun 02, 2025 | A New Zealand MP held up a naked deepfake photo of herself in Parliament. | New Zealand MP | Image | The Independent |
| Jun 02, 2025 | A deepfake video used stolen footage and AI-generated voices of Wyoming News Now journalists to promote a fake company, Bunkers4Everyone, claiming to build bunkers in Yellowstone National Park. The deepfake also included a fake website, press release, and LinkedIn bio. | Wyoming News Now journalists (specifically Ashley Morgan), Yellowstone National Park | Video, Audio | GearJunkie |
| Jun 02, 2025 | In 2019, a UK-based energy company CEO's voice was cloned and used to trick an executive into transferring €220,000 to a fake Hungarian supplier account. | UK-based energy company CEO | Audio | HackerNoon |
| Jun 02, 2025 | San Francisco's city attorney filed a lawsuit against website owners operating sites using AI-generated non-consensual explicit images of adults and minors. Ten of sixteen websites were shut down for violating state and federal laws. One defendant, Briver, settled with a permanent injunction and a $100,000 penalty. The websites attracted 200 million visitors in the first 6 months of 2024. | Adults and Minors (victims of deepfake pornography) | Image | ABC7 San Francisco |
| Jun 02, 2025 | Epic Games used AI-generated voice technology to create a new non-playable character (NPC) in Fortnite that mimics the voice of James Earl Jones. While Jones reportedly authorized the use of his voice, the use of his likeness raises legal questions about name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights in the digital era. | James Earl Jones | Audio | JD Supra |
| Jun 02, 2025 | AI-generated images were used in a Facebook post to falsely claim that a large sinkhole containing Norse artifacts had opened up at Red Clay State Historic Park. The images depicted park rangers in incorrect uniforms and the post was attributed to a satirical 'Cleveland Tennessee Breaking News' page. The park manager confirmed the information was false. | Red Clay State Historic Park | Image | Local 3 News |
| Jun 01, 2025 | A deepfake video purporting to be set leaks from 'Avengers: Doomsday' spread on social media. The video contained fabricated scenes with actors like Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom and appearances by other characters. The video was debunked by the community but not before reaching millions of views. | Marvel/Avengers Franchise | Video | Forbes |
| Jun 01, 2025 | A woman in Argentina was scammed out of approximately Rs 11 lakh by someone impersonating George Clooney via deepfake videos on Facebook. The scammer convinced her to join a fan club and pay for a special card to unlock exclusive work opportunities. | Woman in Argentina | Video | The Indian Express |
| May 31, 2025 | Elijah Heacock received a threatening text message with an AI-generated nude photo of himself, demanding $3,000 to prevent its distribution to his friends and family. He died by suicide shortly after receiving the message. | Elijah Heacock | Image | CBS News |
| May 31, 2025 | A dubbing artist, Yin XX, found that their voice was used in AI-generated text-to-speech products without their permission. The voice was created using AI based on a recording Yin XX made for a client. The AI-generated voice was then sold on a cloud service platform and used in various apps. The court ruled that this infringed Yin XX's voice rights. | Yin XX, a dubbing artist | Audio | The National Law Review |
| May 30, 2025 | Fresno Unified School District's communications office, under the direction of Superintendent Misty Her, created a dossier containing 39 fabricated quotes attributed to the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) using AI. The dossier accused the FTA of personally attacking Superintendent Her. The fabricated quotes were found in news reports and emails. The communications chief, Nikki Henry, has been placed on leave following the incident. | Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) | GV Wire | |
| May 30, 2025 | A video emerged purportedly showing paraglider Peng Yujiang surviving a high-altitude ascent. News organizations pulled the video after concerns arose that it was AI-generated, potentially using Doubao AI. The video, initially shared on Douyin and distributed by CCTV, showed Peng battling winds and appearing frostbitten. NBC News identified AI-generated elements in the footage. | Peng Yujiang | Video | Deadline |
| May 29, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer edition containing a list of 15 books, 10 of which were falsely generated by an AI agent. This content, licensed from King Features, bypassed the Sun-Times' editorial review process due to multiple human errors. The incident resulted in embarrassment for the Sun-Times staff and triggered discussions about the use of AI in local news. | Chicago Sun-Times readers | Chicago Sun-Times | |
| May 29, 2025 | Jack Bullington was arrested for creating and distributing AI-generated sexually explicit images of minors. He allegedly cropped the faces of 11 victims from social media onto nude bodies and shared the images on X, including requesting alterations for payment from someone overseas. | 11 juvenile females | Image | KEYE |
| May 29, 2025 | A deepfake AI-generated Instagram account used Kelly Stranick's wedding photo, replacing her face with another influencer's, to promote an app. The account had over 60,000 followers. | Kelly Stranick | Image, Video | ELLE |
| May 28, 2025 | A Vietnam-based hacking group (UNC6032) created fake AI-powered video generator websites and promoted them via malicious ads on social media. These websites distributed malware (STARKVEIL) that steals user credentials, cookies, credit card data, and Facebook information. The campaign ran from mid-2024, impacting users globally. The hackers used Facebook pages and compromised accounts to publish ads, reaching millions of users. The malicious domains were rotated to avoid detection. | Users of social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn interested in AI video generation tools. | Video | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| May 28, 2025 | Cybercriminals are using fake text-to-video tools promoted via ads and comments on Facebook and LinkedIn to deliver malware, including information stealers, Trojans, and backdoors. They promote fake tools like "Luma AI," "Canva Dream Lab," and "Kling AI" across 30+ websites imitating legitimate AI tools, rotating domains and creating new ads daily. The malware harvests data from infected devices and sends it to the cybercriminals. | Facebook and LinkedIn users | Video | Malwarebytes |
| May 27, 2025 | In 2023 fraudsters tricked a finance employee at British engineering firm Arup into transferring $25 million into their accounts. The scammers used a deepfake video call featuring AI-generated avatars of the company's CFO and other executives, making the interaction appear real. | Arup finance employee | Video | Bank Info Security |
| May 27, 2025 | A voiceover artist, Gayanne Potter, believes her voice was used without her consent to create ScotRail's new AI-generated announcement system, 'Iona'. She had previously done work for ReadSpeaker, the firm that created Iona, under the impression it was for accessibility software. She is now in a dispute with ReadSpeaker and is asking ScotRail to remove the AI voice from their trains. | Gayanne Potter, ScotRail | Audio | BBC |
| May 27, 2025 | Gayanne Potter, a voiceover artist, is in a dispute with ScotRail and ReadSpeaker after an AI version of her voice, named "Iona," was implemented on Scotland's nationalized train network without her explicit consent. Potter alleges that ReadSpeaker used recordings from a previous job to create the AI voice, violating her rights and potentially infringing on her data protection. She feels exploited and claims the AI clone is demeaning to her career. ScotRail has rejected her concerns and has no plans to remove the AI voice system. This has led to a legal dispute, with Union Equity supporting Potter's case. | Gayanne Potter | Audio | Sky News |
| May 27, 2025 | AI song generators are used to flood platforms with millions of fake songs, streaming each one a few thousand times to generate royalties. Michael Smith allegedly extracted over US$10 million by uploading hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and using bots. | Music Industry, legitimate artists, labels, and publishers | Audio | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
| May 26, 2025 | A Karnataka lawyer was duped of ₹5.93 lakh after being lured by an AI-generated video of Donald Trump promoting a hotel investment scheme on YouTube. The 38-year-old advocate believed the video was real and joined a Telegram group linked in the video. He then invested his money, but when the returns never came and the group vanished, he realized he had been scammed. He had initially paid ₹1,500 to activate his account after submitting his bank details, and was promised a 3% daily return. Lured by early returns, he invested a total of ₹5,93,240 between January 25 and April 4. A case has been registered under the IT Act and Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Police have frozen ₹1.5 lakh in the recipient bank account. | A Karnataka lawyer | Video | Hindustan Times |
| May 26, 2025 | Cybercriminals used deepfake videos of Donald Trump to promote a fake investment scheme called "Trump Hotel Rentals" via YouTube and other social media platforms. The videos directed viewers to a fraudulent mobile app that claimed to offer high-yield returns from property rentals. Victims were lured in with small initial gains before being encouraged to invest larger sums, ultimately losing their money. | Victims in India, Donald Trump's reputation | Video | The420.in |
| May 26, 2025 | Hackers are posting AI-generated videos on TikTok to trick users into downloading infostealing malware. The videos demonstrate how to easily “activate” Windows and Microsoft Office, or enable “premium features” in apps such as Spotify or CapCut. The clips were AI-generated and trick the victims into downloading Vidar and StealC infostealers. One of the videos has roughly 500,000 views, more than 20,000 likes, and more than 100 comments. | TikTok users | Video | TechRadar |
| May 26, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti are becoming increasingly realistic, raising concerns about the potential for misuse and misinformation. Google's Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating videos that are now much harder to identify as AI at first look, which has passed the 'Will Smith eating spaghetti test.' Another disturbing example of Veo 3 being used is a video of a conversation between three people that's going viral because it never actually happened. The AI generated footage contains a completely nonsensical conversation riddled with Gen Z slang used incorrectly, but some people were having trouble distinguishing it from the real thing visually. | Will Smith | Video | LADbible |
| May 26, 2025 | Scammers are impersonating senior U.S. officials through AI-generated voice messages (vishing) since April 2025. They target high-ranking officials and their contacts to gain access to personal accounts. | U.S. officials and their contacts | Audio | Asbury Park Press |
| May 26, 2025 | An AI-generated image, created based on a police sketch related to a sexual assault investigation in the Saskatoon area, is circulating online. The RCMP warns that the AI image is inaccurate and misleading, as it does not match the descriptors provided by witnesses. The RCMP advises the public to focus on the original sketch released by their Forensic Artist instead. | Saskatchewan RCMP sexual assault investigation | Image | WestCentralOnline |
| May 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video, created by @mbaiarts on Instagram, falsely portrays scuba divers discovering a 5,000-year-old Sri Maha Vishnu temple in the sea off Bali, Indonesia. Hive app analysis indicates a 99% likelihood that the video is AI-generated. The video was shared widely on social media. | Viewers/Social Media Users | Video | FACTLY |
| May 26, 2025 | The band Ice Nine Kills used AI-generated images for promotional material, specifically a picture of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees grilling meat and another image of the band members. This led to backlash from fans and a ban from being mentioned or promoted on the r/metalcore subreddit. | Ice Nine Kills | Image | Louder |
| May 26, 2025 | A deepfake video of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was created to promote a fraudulent investment platform promising passive income. The video was altered using AI to make it appear as though she was endorsing the platform. AI detection tools confirmed the video and audio were manipulated. | Nirmala Sitharaman | Video | The Quint |
| May 26, 2025 | Anthony Rotondo posted deepfake images of prominent Australian women to the MrDeepFakes website. The eSafety commissioner launched proceedings against Rotondo for failing to remove the images. Rotondo was fined for contempt of court in December 2023 for breaching court orders by not removing the imagery. | Prominent Australian women (names kept confidential) | Image | The Guardian |
| May 25, 2025 | The content describes a North Texas teen who was the victim of deepfake revenge porn, leading to a new federal law cracking down on such images. | North Texas teen | Image | CBS News |
| May 24, 2025 | 50 Cent has been posting AI-generated images and videos mocking Diddy during his trial. These include images of 50 Cent on the jury, Diddy in a pool of baby oil, Diddy in jail, Diddy riding with Jeffrey Epstein, and 50 Cent wearing a 'Free Diddy' shirt. | Diddy | Image, Video | Daily Mail |
| May 24, 2025 | 50 Cent used AI to alter a photo of Lil Kim that he didn't like and posted the result on Instagram. He claimed that even AI couldn't fix the photo to his liking. | Lil Kim | Image | Complex |
| May 24, 2025 | Deepfake fraud in India is surging. Scammers are using AI-generated media for identity theft, loan fraud, and insurance scams. Cybercriminals have impersonated high-ranking executives through deepfake videos and voice cloning, tricking employees into authorizing fraudulent transactions. Fraudsters also bypass traditional KYC verifications. | Indian Banks and their customers | Video, Audio | ET CISO |
| May 23, 2025 | SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge against Llama Productions (Epic Games subsidiary) for using AI to generate the voice of Darth Vader in Fortnite without negotiating with the union. The union claims this replaces the work of human performers and violates their bargaining agreement. | SAG-AFTRA | Audio | ComicsBeat |
| May 23, 2025 | Google's Veo 3 AI video synthesis model was tested by creating a deepfake video of Will Smith eating spaghetti. The AI-generated video included synchronized audio, but the spaghetti eating sound effect had a 'crunching' glitch. | Will Smith | Video, Audio | Ars Technica |
| May 23, 2025 | A 36-minute YouTube video presented as a speech from Pope Leo XIV to Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré, which was confirmed by the Vatican Press Office and Vatican News to be a deepfake. AI lip-sync technology was used to make the video appear real. | Pope Leo XIV (impersonation) | Video | Relevant Radio |
| May 23, 2025 | A video was released featuring Sam Altman and Jony Ive discussing a merger between OpenAI and Ive's hardware startup. The internet is debating whether the video is a deepfake or not, with some pointing to uncanny eye contact, balanced table reflections, and other subtle details as evidence of AI generation. The video is suspected to be a teaser for Sora2. | Sam Altman and Jony Ive | Video | CryptoSlate |
| May 23, 2025 | Attorneys at Butler Snow LLP used ChatGPT to generate legal citations for court filings in a case concerning Alabama prison conditions. The AI generated citations to cases that did not exist. The judge is considering sanctions and the firm's reputation is at risk. | Butler Snow LLP | The Baltimore Banner | |
| May 23, 2025 | Elliston Berry was a victim of an AI-generated 'deepfake' of herself when she was 14. The Take It Down Act was inspired by this event. The law makes it illegal to knowingly publish or threaten to publish intimate images without a person’s consent, including AI-created deepfakes. | Elliston Berry | Image | WHYY |
| May 22, 2025 | A high school classmate created fake nude images of her and circulated them around school. | Dorota Mani's daughter | Image | ColoradoPolitics.com |
| May 22, 2025 | Scammers used AI-generated images and voices of a multinational firm CEO to steal millions of dollars. | Multinational firm CEO | Image, Audio | Tech Policy Press |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated explicit images were circulated online, leading to the resignation of a city councilwoman. | South Florida city councilwoman | Image | Tech Xplore |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated sexually explicit images created without the subject's consent. AI 'nudification' websites allow users to upload an image, manipulate clothing, body shape and pose, and generate a sexually explicit photo. | Taylor Swift, Melania Trump, South Florida city councilwoman | Image | Tech Xplore |
| May 22, 2025 | An AI-generated summer reading list with fake titles appeared in a print insert in the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Several titles were made up, including 'The Last Algorithm' by Andy Weir and 'The Collector's Piece' by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Freelancer Marco Buscaglia took responsibility for the piece and confirmed he used AI. | Readers of Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, Authors whose fake books were promoted | USA Today | |
| May 22, 2025 | An AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti was created using Google DeepMind's Veo 3 model. The video included AI-generated sound of squelching and masticating. | Will Smith | Video, Audio | futurism.com |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated TikTok videos are used to trick users into executing PowerShell commands that download and install information-stealing malware (Vidar and StealC). The videos provide verbal and visual instructions, making it harder for traditional security systems to detect. The accounts used for the attacks are now inactive. | TikTok users | Video, Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake images | Texas teen | Image | ABC News |
| May 22, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer book guide that included fake, AI-generated titles attributed to real authors like Isabel Allende and Percival Everett. Only five out of fifteen titles were genuine. The list was licensed from King Features, and Marco Buscaglia admitted to using AI to generate some of the content. | Chicago Sun-Times readers, Isabel Allende, Percival Everett | WBZ NewsRadio 1030 | |
| May 22, 2025 | Scammers are using AI-generated voice messages to impersonate senior U.S. officials. They send text messages with malicious links or direct individuals to phishing sites. The aim is to gain access to personal accounts and steal money. The FBI has reported these incidents since April. | Individuals, targeting personal account information and money. | Audio | MassLive |
| May 22, 2025 | Orson Welles' voice was recreated using AI from hours of audio recordings to narrate location-based stories in the StoryRabbit app. The AI model learned from Welles' TV appearances and other mediums to generate new paragraphs in his accent and tone. The project has sparked controversy, with some finding it unethical, while others view it as a continuation of Welles' innovative legacy. | Orson Welles | Audio | MovieWeb |
| May 22, 2025 | Elliston Berry was a survivor of deepfake image-based sexual abuse committed when she was 14. This incident, along with the broader issue of deepfake pornography, inspired the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes the distribution of sexually explicit material without consent, including AI-generated "deepfake pornography". The law also mandates social media platforms to remove such images within 48 hours of notification and introduces penalties including prison sentences and fines. | Elliston Berry (and other potential victims) | Image | Christianity Today |
| May 22, 2025 | Lawyers with Butler Snow firm used ChatGPT to research supporting case law for court filings but did not verify the information, leading to nonexistent case citations. The judge is considering sanctions against the lawyers. The filings were made in a lawsuit filed by an inmate who was stabbed on multiple occasions. | Alabama prison system | Corrections1 | |
| May 22, 2025 | Scammers are impersonating senior U.S. officials using AI-generated voicemails and text messages to trick recipients into divulging personal financial information. They send malicious links and may introduce malware to steal login credentials, targeting other government officials or their associates. | iPhone and Android users, senior U.S. officials, government officials, their associates | Audio | WBIW |
| May 22, 2025 | SAG-AFTRA filed a complaint against Epic Games' subsidiary, Llama Productions, alleging labor rights violations for using AI to replicate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite without proper consultation or union clearance. The AI voice was generated using Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model and ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5 model. | James Earl Jones's portrayal of Darth Vader | Audio | eWEEK |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated videos of doctors and celebrities are used to mislead Australians into abandoning prescribed medications and purchasing unverified supplements. Dr. Norman Swan's likeness is being exploited in these deepfakes. | Australians; Dr. Norman Swan | Video | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| May 22, 2025 | Scammers are using AI to impersonate senior US officials via voice messages. They contact targets via text, then use AI-generated audio to impersonate public figures, friends, or family, sending malicious links to steal login information or push malware. | US federal or state government officials and their contacts | Audio | Malwarebytes |
| May 22, 2025 | Omny Miranda Martone was personally attacked with deepfake pornography. The content was posted on social media and emailed to her employer with demands to fire Martone, unaware that Martone was the company CEO. | Omny Miranda Martone | Image | Forbes |
| May 22, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list that included ten AI-generated book titles that do not exist. A freelancer used AI to create the titles, and the paper is updating its policies to prevent this from happening again. | Chicago Sun-Times | 10News.com | |
| May 22, 2025 | AI-generated pornographic images of public figures and other women were widely circulated on social media platforms, especially X (formerly Twitter). The 'Take It Down Act' makes it a federal crime to distribute sexually explicit images—real or AI-generated—without the subject's consent and allows victims to sue creators and platforms that fail to remove them. | Taylor Swift, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and women with no public profiles | Image | International Business Times UK |
| May 22, 2025 | A high school student was arrested for creating and sharing sexually explicit deepfake images and videos that superimposed the faces of female celebrities and ordinary women onto nude bodies. He operated Telegram chat rooms where he shared the illicit content. 23 others were booked for allegedly producing or redistributing the content. | Female celebrities and ordinary women | Image, Video | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| May 22, 2025 | Martina McBride testified at a Senate hearing about the NO FAKES Act. She shared a story about a fan who was scammed by someone impersonating her, leading the fan to sell their house and send the money to the impersonator. The method of impersonation is not explicitly stated, but it implied the use of deepfake audio or video or social media impersonation to convincingly mimic her. | Martina McBride's fans | Stereogum | |
| May 21, 2025 | Kayla Medeiros was a victim of deepfake images that were manipulated to make her look undressed. These images were found on an old iPad she shared with her ex-boyfriend. The 'Take It Down' Act, signed by President Donald Trump, makes publishing explicit AI-generated images illegal, offering protection and stricter penalties for the spread of such images. | Kayla Medeiros | Image | KETV |
| May 21, 2025 | Mentions an incident in late March involving unauthorized deepfake distribution causing harm, but does not give specifics on the target, modality or other details. | Unknown | Image | Leader-Telegram |
| May 21, 2025 | People are using AI to create deepfakes of OnlyFans models. | OnlyFans models | Video | Mashable |
| May 21, 2025 | A fan of Martina McBride was duped into believing they were communicating with her and ended up selling their house and sending the money to the scammer. | Martina McBride's fans | The Tennessean | |
| May 21, 2025 | A Toronto lawyer, Jisuh Lee, submitted a factum that included hallucinated cases generated by AI, misleading the court. She avoided contempt charges by taking responsibility and committing to remedial measures. | Ontario Superior Court Justice Fred Myers | Law.com | |
| May 21, 2025 | The article discusses the DEFIANCE Act, which aims to provide legal recourse for victims of non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfake imagery. It mentions that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift have been targets of such deepfakes. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift | Image | Norwood News |
| May 21, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list including AI-generated fictional books attributed to real authors. The list was created by a freelancer using AI, which generated book titles and details that do not exist. The newspaper removed the list and is reviewing its relationship with third-party contractors. | Chicago Sun-Times readers, Isabel Allende, Rebecca Makkai, Min Jin Lee | NBC News | |
| May 21, 2025 | Elliston Berry and Francesca Mani were victims of deepfakes at age 14. Digitally altered nude images of themselves and friends online were generated using AI. Incidents in schools in the U.S. totalled nearly 30 over the last 20 months. First Lady Melania Trump invited Berry and Mani to a roundtable discussion on the “Take It Down Act.” On May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law to punish individuals who are abusing others through deepfakes or online sexual exploitation. | Elliston Berry and Francesca Mani | Image | American Family Association |
| May 21, 2025 | A deepfake video was posted on X depicting Donald Trump saying Pride Month is canceled. The video, which labeled itself as a deepfake, went viral on social media and had 2.2 million views as of May 21. The video was created by an account named Maverick Alexander. | Donald Trump | Video | USA Today |
| May 21, 2025 | A gaming YouTuber, Mark Brown, discovered that an AI-generated clone of his voice was being used without his consent to narrate Doom videos on the 'Game Offline Lore' YouTube channel. Brown filed a privacy complaint with YouTube, as the channel was profiting from the videos using the AI-generated voice. | Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit) | Audio | WIRED |
| May 21, 2025 | A YouTube channel called Game Offline Lore used an AI-generated clone of Mark Brown's voice to narrate Doom videos without his knowledge or consent. Brown filed a privacy complaint to YouTube, but the videos remained live for over 48 hours. The channel is profiting from the videos, which have garnered over 60,000 views. | Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit) | Audio | WIRED |
| May 21, 2025 | Omny Miranda Martone, founder and CEO of the Sexual Violence Prevention Association, was targeted with several deepfake pornography attacks. Disgusting violating images of ‘me’ were shared on social media and emailed to my organization in an attempt to silence my advocacy. | Omny Miranda Martone | Image | Rolling Stone |
| May 21, 2025 | A syndicated summer reading list published in the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer was found to be largely fake, generated by AI. The list of 15 books was a syndicated piece by King Features. Freelance writer Marco Buscaglia admitted to partially generating the piece using AI. The fake books were paired with fake descriptions. The newspapers have distanced themselves and promised to investigate. | Chicago Sun-Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer | VICE | |
| May 21, 2025 | Cybercriminals used fake Facebook pages and ads impersonating Kling AI to distribute malware. Users were lured to spoofed websites where they were tricked into downloading a malicious file disguised as AI-generated images or videos. The malware gave attackers remote control of the victim's system and the ability to steal sensitive data. The campaign used a remote access trojan (RAT) called PureHVNC. | Users of Kling AI | Image, Video | The Hacker News |
| May 21, 2025 | Former NewsChannel 5 meteorologist Bree Smith was a victim of deepfakes. Images of a semi-nude body with her face superimposed on it had been circulating online. | Bree Smith | Image | The Tennessean |
| May 21, 2025 | A classmate used an app to create nude deepfakes from images taken from her Instagram account and shared them on Snapchat. | Ellison Berry | Image | EL PAÍS English |
| May 20, 2025 | A freelance writer for King Features generated a summer reading list using AI, featuring non-existent books attributed to real authors, and published it in the Chicago Sun-Times. The writer used generative ai tools to make up fake books by real authors. | Chicago Sun-Times readers, authors Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Brit Bennett | Snopes | |
| May 20, 2025 | 50 Cent posted an AI-generated picture of himself wearing a 'Free Diddy' shirt on Instagram in front of a courthouse, along with other posts referencing the Diddy situation and Kid Cudi's expected testimony. | Diddy | Image | Billboard |
| May 20, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published AI-generated content, including fake book recommendations attributed to real authors and articles quoting nonexistent experts. A 'national content partner' provided the content. A credited author also admitted using AI to generate content and not thoroughly checking facts. The Sun-Times is removing the content and updating its third-party content policies. | Chicago Sun-Times readers, Min Jin Lee, Rebecca Makkai, Padma Lakshmi | The Verge | |
| May 20, 2025 | Snapchat refused for nearly a year to remove an AI-generated “deepfake” of Elliston Berry, who was 14 at the time. | Elliston Berry | Image | AP News |
| May 20, 2025 | A syndicated insert titled "Summer reading list for 2025" featured in both papers included numerous nonexistent books. Marco Buscaglia admitted to using AI to generate the list and failing to properly verify the information. | Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer | PCMag | |
| May 20, 2025 | A syndicated summer book list containing made-up books by famous authors (Isabel Allende, Percival Everett) was published in major newspapers. The list was partly generated by Artificial Intelligence. Only 5 of the 15 books were real. | Readers of Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer | NPR | |
| May 20, 2025 | Epic Games (via Llama Productions) allegedly used AI to replicate Darth Vader's voice in Fortnite without notifying the union or the original performers. The AI allows players to interact with the Darth Vader character in real-time. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge, arguing that the company made unilateral changes to employment terms without providing notice or opportunity to bargain. | Hollywood actors' union (SAG-AFTRA) | Audio | Hindustan Times |
| May 20, 2025 | The Chicago Sun-Times published an AI-generated summer reading list, including non-existent books by real authors due to 'AI hallucination.' The Philadelphia Inquirer was also accused of publishing the same fake reading list. The list was created by a freelancer working with a content partner and included fake titles like *Hurricane Season* by Brit Bennett, *Nightshade Market* by Min Jin Lee, and *The Longest Day* by Rumaan Alam, along with fake descriptions. Other AI-generated content was also found, such as quotes from non-existent experts. | Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Brit Bennett, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam | The Guardian | |
| May 20, 2025 | Defense lawyers for Jeff Dunn, being sued by Frankie Johnson, allegedly used fictitious, potentially AI-generated case citations in a court filing. Johnson's lawyer claims the cited sources do not exist, and the judge confirmed their absence through independent searches. The court is investigating the attorneys for potential sanctions related to false statements. | Frankie Johnson | Yellowhammer News | |
| May 20, 2025 | Fortnite introduced an AI Darth Vader using James Earl Jones' voice, leading to controversy when gamers tricked it into saying slurs. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor complaint against Epic Games, arguing the use of AI violated their agreement by replacing human performers. | James Earl Jones/SAG-AFTRA | Audio | futurism.com |
| May 20, 2025 | Civitai, an AI model sharing site, had a configuration issue that allowed users to generate nonconsensual pornographic videos of real people, including non-celebrities. Although Civitai claims to have fixed the issue for celebrities, it was still allowing non-consensual videos of non-celebrities to be generated at the time of the report. | Non-celebrity Civitai users | Video | 404 Media |
| May 20, 2025 | Epic Games (Llama Productions) allegedly used AI-generated voices in Fortnite to replace the work of human voice actors without proper negotiation with the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA. The specific case involves a Darth Vader non-player character. | SAG-AFTRA (American actors' union) | Audio | theregister.com |
| May 20, 2025 | Attackers are leveraging advanced AI technologies to conduct targeted attacks through smishing and vishing. AI-generated audio mimics well-known public figures or trusted contacts, making it challenging to discern authenticity. Attackers impersonate individuals familiar to their targets, utilizing spoofed numbers, AI-generated voices, and personal photos sourced from public domains. | Top U.S. officials and their associates | Audio | Rude Baguette |
| May 20, 2025 | Fortnite used an AI-generated voice of Darth Vader, based on the late James Earl Jones' voice, allowing players to interact with the character in real-time. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair-labor-practice complaint against Epic Games, arguing that the agreement with Jones' estate doesn't cover replacing other voice actors with AI without proper agreement with the union. | SAG-AFTRA and other voice actors who have portrayed Darth Vader | Audio | GameSpot |
| May 20, 2025 | Epic Games (Llama Productions) allegedly used AI to recreate Darth Vader's voice in Fortnite without informing or bargaining with the actors' union (Sag-Aftra). The union filed a complaint alleging unfair labor practices, as the company is accused of replacing the work of human performers with AI technology without proper negotiation. Players were reportedly able to manipulate the AI voice to generate inappropriate content. | James Earl Jones (estate) and voice actors | Audio | BBC |
| May 20, 2025 | Epic Games subsidiary Llama Productions deployed an AI-powered Darth Vader chatbot in Fortnite that imitated the voice of deceased voice actor James Earl Jones (with permission from his estate) using Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and ElevenLabs Flash v2.5. The AI character made offensive statements and SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge, arguing that Llama replaced human performers with AI technology without negotiation. | James Earl Jones (estate), SAG-AFTRA | Audio | Game Developer |
| May 20, 2025 | AI-generated image depicting a Pakistani truck transporting the wreckage of an Indian aircraft was shared on social media, falsely claiming it was real. The image was created using AI and showed distortions, such as an incorrect license plate, revealing its fabrication. | India | Image | Yahoo |
| May 20, 2025 | An American mother almost fell victim to a virtual kidnapping scam using a cloned voice mimicking her daughter's cries. Scammers posed as the Italian defense minister, asking the country’s top tycoons for money to free kidnapped journalists which lead to nearly €1 million frozen linked to the AI-generated voice deepfakes. | American mother, Italian tycoons, businesses | Audio | Help Net Security |
| May 20, 2025 | Epic Games' Fortnite used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice. SAG-AFTRA filed a complaint alleging replacement of human performers without notice or bargaining. The game allows players to speak with Darth Vader via conversational AI. | James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice | Audio | hypebeast.com |
| May 20, 2025 | Illicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift spread through X. X temporarily banned searches using Taylor Swift’s name in response. | Taylor Swift | Image | Cointelegraph |
| May 20, 2025 | The Take It Down Act has been signed into law, criminalizing the non-consensual online publication of intimate images, including deepfakes. Tech platforms are mandated to remove such content within 48 hours of notification. The law, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, is a response to the rise of deepfake pornography and non-consensual image abuse. High-profile figures like Taylor Swift and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as underage children, have been victims of AI-generated images shared online without consent. | Taylor Swift, Jamie Lee Curtis, underage children | Image | Decrypt |
| May 20, 2025 | Explicit deepfakes, where a person’s face is superimposed on a nude body using artificial intelligence. A classmate of Texas high schooler Berry shared on Snapchat an image of her that he’d taken from her Instagram and altered using AI to make it look like she was nude. | Taylor Swift, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, high school girls, Elliston Berry, Francesca Mani | Image | CNN |
| May 20, 2025 | Dhruv Rathee created a YouTube video titled 'The Sikh Warrior Who Terrified the Mughals' which included AI-generated visuals of Sikh Gurus. This sparked backlash from the Akal Takht, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), as depicting Sikh gurus in human form is considered inappropriate. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Cell, leading to the video being removed. | Sikh Gurus and Sikh community | Video, Image | Hindustan Times |
| May 19, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake image of Elliston Berry, then 14 years old, was posted on Snapchat. The platform refused to remove it for almost a year. This incident inspired the Take It Down Act. | Elliston Berry | Image | USA Today |
| May 19, 2025 | Boys as young as 14 created and shared AI-generated pornographic images of female classmates on social media sites like Snapchat. | Teenage girls, specifically students | Image | Education Week |
| May 19, 2025 | Taylor Swift became a victim of explicit deepfake images made in her likeness once they were posted on X and disseminated across other social media platforms. | Taylor Swift | Image | The Independent |
| May 19, 2025 | SAG-AFTRA has filed charges against Llama Productions (Fortnite) for using AI to replicate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice without union agreement, potentially replacing voice actors. | James Earl Jones/SAG-AFTRA | Audio | Star Wars News Net |
| May 19, 2025 | Epic Games (Llama Productions) implemented an AI-voiced Darth Vader NPC in Fortnite, allegedly undermining the work of human SAG-AFTRA members. The AI Darth Vader can have conversations with players over voice chat. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge, claiming Epic used AI without bargaining over terms, replacing human performers' potential work. | SAG-AFTRA video game actors | Audio | IGN |
| May 19, 2025 | Epic subsidiary Llama Productions implemented an AI-generated Darth Vader voice in Fortnite using Google's Gemini 2.0 to generate dialogue and ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5 AI model trained on the voice of James Earl Jones, without notifying or bargaining with the union. Players discovered they could manipulate the AI into using profanity and inappropriate language. | James Earl Jones/SAG-AFTRA | Audio | Ars Technica |
| May 19, 2025 | Epic Games implemented an AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that could be tricked into saying slurs using James Earl Jones's voice. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice complaint alleging Epic's use of AI-generated voice constituted 'unilateral changes' to terms and conditions of employment covered by union bargaining. | James Earl Jones, SAG-AFTRA | Audio | PC Gamer |
| May 19, 2025 | Llama Productions (Fortnite) allegedly used an AI-powered voice mimicking James Earl Jones' Darth Vader without notifying or negotiating with SAG-AFTRA, the actor's union. This is considered a violation of labor practices as it undermines bargaining unit work, potentially replacing voice actors. | James Earl Jones/SAG-AFTRA | Audio | JoBlo |
| May 19, 2025 | Llama Productions, a subsidiary of Epic Games, allegedly used AI to generate Darth Vader's voice in Fortnite, replacing actors' work without notice or bargaining with SAG-AFTRA. | Actors who previously matched Darth Vader's voice in video games | Audio | AP News |
| May 19, 2025 | President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act,” a bipartisan bill that targets explicit AI-generated deepfakes. | Victims of explicit AI-generated deepfakes | NBC News | |
| May 19, 2025 | Epic Games' Llama Productions used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite without SAG-AFTRA's consent. SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge, arguing this use of AI replaces the work of human performers and violates their right to bargain terms. The union does not appear to be against using digital replicas of deceased actors, as long as actors and the union are compensated and can bargain terms for their use. | James Earl Jones (posthumously) and SAG-AFTRA | Audio | Variety |
| May 19, 2025 | Fortnite implemented an AI-generated voice mimicking James Earl Jones as Darth Vader without negotiating with SAG-AFTRA, potentially replacing the work of voice actors who previously performed the role in video games. The AI voice was also reportedly prompted to use slurs. | SAG-AFTRA, voice actors, specifically those who previously matched Darth Vader's voice | Audio | Screen Rant |
| May 19, 2025 | A 2022 deepfake video of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appearing to urge Ukrainian soldiers to surrender to Russian forces. The video was quickly debunked. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Video | CNET |
| May 19, 2025 | Risto Bergman, a telecoms worker, used an AI app to generate indecent images of young girls being abused. The images were so realistic they were mistaken for authentic photographs. He used sexually descriptive search terms, and the AI drew upon a digital library of real child abuse images. He was sentenced and added to the sex offenders' register. | Children | Image | Sky News |
| May 19, 2025 | Explicit deepfake images of Elliston Berry were created by a classmate using a computer program. The images were difficult to remove from social media, highlighting the need for legislation like the Take It Down Act. | Elliston Berry | Image | FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth |
| May 19, 2025 | AI-generated images circulated online falsely depicting Billie Eilish and Katy Perry at the Met Gala. Billie Eilish was shown in an oversized navy blazer with fake roses, and a black corset with feathers. Katy Perry also had a fake image circulating. | Billie Eilish and Katy Perry | Image | WJBR.com |
| May 19, 2025 | Law&Crime is using generative AI to recreate Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial proceedings due to a courtroom camera ban. The AI-generated videos are based on official court transcripts and depict the words spoken by witnesses, investigators, and legal figures. Concerns have been raised about the potential misrepresentation of jurors and the resemblance of AI-generated faces to real individuals. | Sean "Diddy" Combs | Video | PetaPixel |
| May 19, 2025 | 50 Cent shared a fake AI-generated video on Instagram showing Diddy riding pillion on a motorcycle driven by Jeffrey Epstein. This was done to troll Diddy amidst his sex trafficking trial. | Sean 'Diddy' Combs | Video | The Mirror US |
| May 19, 2025 | An AI-generated image was created depicting a monument of Rodrigo Duterte. AI detection tools indicate a high likelihood of AI generation and face manipulation within the image. | Rodrigo Duterte | Image | Rappler |
| May 19, 2025 | Cybercriminals are using AI-generated voice messages, impersonating senior US officials, in smishing campaigns to get the target to click on malicious links to access personal accounts. A similar cybercrime involved malicious actors pretending to be US government officials in calls with Middle Eastern students in the US with valid visas. | Current and former senior US federal and state employees, and their contacts | Audio | PCMag |
| May 19, 2025 | Dhruv Rathee created a video featuring AI-generated images of Guru Gobind Singh and his sons, leading to demands for its removal by SGPC and SAD. | Guru Gobind Singh and his four sons (Sahibzadas) | Image, Video | Deccan Herald |
| May 19, 2025 | Attackers use smishing texts and AI-generated vishing voice messages to harvest credentials and take over accounts. Compromised accounts can be used to reach additional officials. | current or former federal and state officials and their contacts | Audio | Gov1 |
| May 19, 2025 | Deepfakes are being used to impersonate well-known personalities and company executives to trick people into handing over money or personal information. Examples include fake celebrity endorsements of investment scams, impersonation of executives in video calls, and misinformation campaigns. A fake video of Raymond Ackerman promoting a money-doubling scheme linked to Pick n Pay appeared online. Scams using altered footage of Elon Musk and other public figures have also circulated. | Raymond Ackerman, Elon Musk, Pick n Pay, Old Mutual Customers | Video | IT News Africa |
| May 19, 2025 | A video of Donald Trump playing piano and guitar was created using AI and shared on Truth Social and X/Twitter. The video depicted him playing 'Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. | Donald Trump | Video | Indy100 |
| May 19, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos, images, and messages purporting to depict the new pontiff. These media fabrications present the pope delivering messages he never said, sometimes even in his own voice. For example, a YouTube video entitled, “POPES WAKEUP URGENT CALL TO ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS || POPE LEO XIV SPEECH,” posted on a channel called “Pope Leo XIV Sermons,” delivers a fiery 42-minute exhortation about the end times in an AI-generated voice based on that of Pope Leo. | Pope Leo XIV | Video, Image, Audio | Where Peter Is |
| May 19, 2025 | Relatives of Christopher Pelkey created an AI-generated video of him to appear as if he was addressing the court during the sentencing hearing of Gabriel Horcasitas, who was convicted of manslaughter in Pelkey's death. The video used a script written by Pelkey's sister, an image of his face, and a voice to mimic his. The defense attorney is appealing the sentence, arguing that the use of the AI video was inappropriate. | Gabriel Horcasitas | Video | Inquirer.com |
| May 19, 2025 | Elliston Berry was the victim of a nude deepfake that wasn’t removed from Snapchat until Cruz’s Senate office stepped in. Berry was 14 when the deepfake was created. | Elliston Berry | Image | USA Today |
| May 19, 2025 | Deepfakes have been used to create videos of Taylor Swift to promote fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes. Voice-based deepfake attacks target corporations. AI-generated scams are using the voices of family members to ask for money. | Taylor Swift, corporations, individuals | Video, Audio, Image | ITWeb |
| May 19, 2025 | A woman named Beth Hyland was scammed by an online scam artist posing as a French man named Richard. The scam artist used deepfake videos on Skype calls and posted photos of another man to deceive the victim. | Beth Hyland | Video, Image | The Japan Times |
| May 19, 2025 | Spotify podcasts used AI-generated voices to promote illegal online pharmacies, selling controlled substances like Adderall and Xanax. The podcasts, discoverable through common search terms, linked users to dubious pharmacy websites. Spotify removed 26 podcasts after being flagged, but new violations continued to surface. | Spotify users | Audio | Storyboard18 |
| May 18, 2025 | AI-powered Darth Vader character in Fortnite used James Earl Jones' voice to swear at players. Epic Games implemented a fix to prevent future occurrences. | James Earl Jones (posthumously) / Darth Vader character | Audio | Business Insider |
| May 18, 2025 | The segment discusses the Take It Down Act and its implications for deepfake pornography and revenge porn. It mentions the takedown of the website Mr. Deepfakes, which created hyper-realistic deepfake pornography using images and faces, impacting millions of women. The site had 18 million users at its peak. The person behind the website was confronted and was living a double life. | Potentially Millions of Women | Image, Video | PBS |
| May 18, 2025 | Deepfake videos were created to falsely depict Mauricio Macri encouraging people to vote for Manuel Adorni and Silvia Lospennato stepping down and calling to vote for Adorni during the Buenos Aires City legislative elections. Macri accused people from La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of publishing it. | Mauricio Macri and Silvia Lospennato | Video | Buenos Aires Herald |
| May 18, 2025 | Malicious actors are using AI-generated voice memos combined with deceptive text messages (smishing and vishing) to impersonate senior US officials. The goal is to build trust and gain access to personal accounts, potentially leading to further compromises and information theft. They send malicious links to steal login credentials or install malware. | Current and former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts | Audio | Hackread |
| May 18, 2025 | AI-generated video of Donald Trump playing piano and guitar to 'Don't Stop Believin' by Journey, shared on TikTok and Twitter. The video features Trump in different musical scenarios, including playing drums and wearing American-themed attire. | Donald Trump | Video | UNILAD |
| May 18, 2025 | Pornographic, AI-generated pictures of Taylor Swift flooded social media platform X, causing it to temporarily block searches for her name. | Taylor Swift | Image | Behavioral Scientist |
| May 18, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video depicts Jeff Kitner, a Dallas City Council candidate, saying words and engaging in activities like riding a rollercoaster and wearing dirty clothes. The video was created by a supporter of his opponent. | Jeff Kitner | Video | WFAA |
| May 17, 2025 | Grok chatbot was manipulated to generate false claims of 'white genocide' in South Africa, reflecting political biases of Elon Musk. The system prompts were modified without authorization to influence the AI's responses, which violates 'internal policies and core values'. | Public trust in AI; potentially South African farmers | CNBC | |
| May 17, 2025 | Deepfake videos and audio featuring Ibrahim Traore, the military leader of Burkina Faso, are being used to portray him as a pan-African hero and spread misinformation. These deepfakes include music videos featuring celebrities like Beyoncé, Selena Gomez, and Rihanna alongside Traore. Some videos mimic news reports with false claims about Traore and his government. A network of Facebook accounts amplified false claims about Russian support for Traore after allegations were made in the US Senate. | Ibrahim Traore | Video, Audio | BBC |
| May 16, 2025 | Cyber campaign using AI-generated voice and text messages to impersonate senior U.S. government officials to deceive victims into giving up sensitive personal information and account access. Attackers use smishing and vishing, spoofed numbers, AI voices, and personal photos pulled from public sources. Once trust is established, they urge the victim to switch to another platform that may contain malware or direct them to fake login pages to steal credentials. | Senior U.S. government officials and their associates | Audio | Interesting Engineering |
| May 16, 2025 | Attackers are using AI-generated voice and text messages to impersonate senior U.S. government officials. The scheme involves smishing and vishing to trick victims into clicking on links or entering personal details on fraudulent sites. The messages often appear to come from high-level U.S. officials, with AI-generated audio mimicking known public figures or trusted contacts. | Senior U.S. government officials, current and former federal and state officials, and their associates. | Audio | Interesting Engineering |
| May 16, 2025 | Law firms representing former Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey used AI to generate legal citations in a lawsuit against State Farm, submitting briefs with false, inaccurate, and misleading legal citations. Approximately nine of 27 citations in a ten-page brief were incorrect, with at least two authorities cited not existing and several quotes being misattributed. The law firms, K&L Gates and Ellis George LLP, were sanctioned and ordered to pay $31,100. | Judge Michael Wilner | Latin Times | |
| May 16, 2025 | AI-voiced Darth Vader in Fortnite used profanity due to an AI voice implementation error. A Twitch streamer's conversation triggered Vader to repeat vulgar words. Epic Games released a hotfix to address the issue. | Loserfruit (Twitch Streamer), Fortnite Players | Audio | Ars Technica |
| May 16, 2025 | The FBI has issued a warning about an ongoing campaign using AI to impersonate senior U.S. officials through voice and text messages. This scheme involves 'smishing' and 'vishing' attacks, designed to trick targets into giving up personal information. Attackers are sending AI-generated voice messages claiming to be from high-ranking government figures to build trust before requesting a move to another platform where they can send malicious links or request sensitive data. | U.S. federal or state government officials, as well as their contacts. | Audio | Straight Arrow News |
| May 16, 2025 | Malicious actors impersonate senior U.S. officials using malicious text messages and AI-generated voice messages (voice cloning). These messages target current and former federal and state officials to establish a rapport and gain access to personal accounts, information, or funds. The use of AI-based voice cloning surged by 442% between the first half and the second half of 2024. | Senior U.S. officials; current and former federal and state officials | Audio | Cybersecurity Dive |
| May 16, 2025 | Scammers are impersonating a senior US official using faked audio. They send malicious links disguised as transitions to other messaging platforms. After gaining access they contact a specific target pretending to be the official and use an attached voice message to prove their identity. | Targeted individuals | Audio | PCWorld |
| May 16, 2025 | Cybercriminals are impersonating senior US officials in smishing and vishing attacks using deepfake and generative AI to create credible audio and text messages. They attempt to move victims to secondary messaging platforms. | Senior US federal and state government officials | Audio | TechRadar |
| May 16, 2025 | Fortnite used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice using Google’s Gemini 2.0 and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 models. Players exploited the AI to make Vader say inappropriate words, but Epic Games patched the AI to prevent swearing. | Darth Vader character in Fortnite | Audio | Gizmodo |
| May 16, 2025 | A short film showed each of the European leaders as a baby saying “Welcome to Albania” in their native language. | European leaders at the European Political Community in Tirana, Albania | Video | politico.eu |
| May 16, 2025 | FBI warns of AI-generated audio deepfakes used in phishing attacks targeting US officials. Perpetrators impersonate senior officials via 'smishing' (text) and 'vishing' (voice) to establish trust, then send malicious links to gain access to accounts. Information gathered can be used to target other officials or extract information/funds. | US officials | Audio | Tech Monitor |
| May 16, 2025 | Malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials to target individuals, many of whom are current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts. The cybercriminals send text and AI-generated voice messages to establish trust with targets. Perpetrators send targeted individuals a malicious link to gain access to personal and official accounts. Once access is obtained, it can be leveraged to target other government officials, their associates, or other contacts. | US officials | Audio | Tech Monitor |
| May 16, 2025 | A video was circulated on social media platforms depicting Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, conceding defeat to India in an ongoing conflict and lamenting Pakistan's international isolation. The audio in the video was determined to be AI-generated after analysis by the Deepfake Analysis Unit (DAU). They used AI detection tools Hiya, Deepfake-O-Meter, Hive, and ElevenLabs Classifier. | Shahbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan | Video, Audio | Vishvas News |
| May 16, 2025 | Malicious actors impersonated senior US officials in AI-powered SMS and voice phishing schemes (smishing and vishing). They sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages, attempting to gain unauthorized access to personal or official accounts by tricking victims into clicking malicious links to switch messaging platforms. Once accessed, they use contact information to target other officials and associates for sensitive information or financial resources. | Senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts | Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| May 16, 2025 | Malicious actors impersonated senior US officials using AI-generated voice messages (vishing) and SMS messages (smishing) to gain unauthorized access to personal or official accounts. They tricked victims into clicking malicious links to switch messaging platforms. The attacks have been ongoing since at least April 2025. | US federal or state government officials | Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| May 16, 2025 | Hackers are using AI voice clips and text messages to impersonate senior US officials. The goal is to breach personal accounts of government personnel by building trust and redirecting them to external platforms to harvest login credentials. Stolen data is used to access other government officials or their contacts to elicit sensitive information or financial resources. | US Federal and State Government Personnel | Audio | The Express Tribune |
| May 16, 2025 | Hackers are using AI voice clones to impersonate US government officials to gain access to personal accounts. In another instance, a Ferrari executive stymied a similar attack by asking about a book recommended by the person being impersonated. British engineering company Arup paid out $25 million to scammers who set up a false video call meeting to trick an employee. A British energy firm was targeted using AI-generated calls to a cost of more than £200,000. | US Government Officials, Ferrari executive, British engineering company Arup, British energy firm | Audio, Video | IT Pro |
| May 16, 2025 | Hackers impersonated senior US officials using AI-generated voice messages to try to break into online accounts. They sent texts and voice messages to targets since April to build rapport. The goal remains unclear. | US federal and state government officials | Audio | WION |
| May 16, 2025 | In 2020, a bank manager in Hong Kong was tricked into transferring $35 million after receiving a phone call from someone he believed to be a company director. The fraudster used AI-based voice cloning to perfectly mimic the executive’s voice, and backed up the request with convincing emails and documentation. | Bank manager in Hong Kong | Audio | Help Net Security |
| May 16, 2025 | AI-generated images of Billie Eilish were created depicting her at the 2025 Met Gala. Billie Eilish confirmed that she did not attend the event and the images were fake. She was performing in Amsterdam on the same day. | Billie Eilish | Image | Just Jared |
| May 16, 2025 | Scammers are using deepfake voices of senior US government officials in a smishing and vishing campaign to steal login credentials and harvest financial information. The messages encourage targets to move to a separate messaging platform. The FBI advises recipients to verify the authenticity of messages by calling back using the official number of the relevant department. | Senior US government officials | Audio | theregister.com |
| May 15, 2025 | Hackers used AI-generated voice messages to impersonate senior US government officials in an attempt to break into their online accounts. The hackers sent text and voice messages to targets, including federal and state officials, starting in April, to cultivate a rapport. | Current and former US officials | Audio | CNN |
| May 15, 2025 | Scammers are using AI to clone voices of grandchildren and trick grandparents into sending money by claiming the grandchild is in trouble (e.g., arrested). They pressure victims to send money quickly via wire transfers, gift cards, or cash pick-ups. | Grandparents | Audio | ABC7 Chicago |
| May 15, 2025 | Hackers employed AI-created videos to impersonate a firm’s CFO, and the result was a $25 million Hong Kong fraud. | A company in Hong Kong | Video | Analytics Insight |
| May 15, 2025 | Jack Gillard, 25, was found in possession of AI generated images of child abuse depicting young girls being raped by adult men. | Children | Image | Wales Online |
| May 15, 2025 | Seth Herrera, an El Paso soldier, was indicted for using AI chatbots to generate CSAM using images of children he knew. He allegedly took images and videos of these children undressing and used them to create AI-generated CSAM. He is charged in Alaska for transportation, receipt, and possession of CSAM, including AI-generated CSAM. | Children known to Seth Herrera | Image, Video | KFOX |
| May 15, 2025 | Beth Hyland was scammed by an online persona named 'Richard' who used deepfake video calls on Skype. 'Richard' used manipulated video or audio to look and sound real. Beth sent 'Richard' $26,000. | Beth Hyland | Video | Context News |
| May 15, 2025 | An AI-generated video was created using the likeness and voice of Christopher Pelkey, a murder victim, to deliver a victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing of his killer, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas. Pelkey's sister scripted the statement. The defense attorney argued the defendant wasn't forewarned and the AI wasn't an accurate representation of Pelkey. The judge praised the AI. | Gabriel Paul Horcasitas | Video, Audio | The Jerusalem Post |
| May 15, 2025 | A deepfake video of Colonel Sofia Qureshi was created where she is made to say, “I am a Muslim, but not a Pakistani. I am a Muslim, but not a terrorist.” The video was shared by Pakistani users. Fact checking using DeepFake-o-Meter confirmed it to be a deepfake. | Colonel Sofia Qureshi | Video | DFRAC |
| May 15, 2025 | Attackers use AI-generated voice messages along with text messages to build rapport and gain access to personal accounts. They send a link to enable conversation on another platform, which infects the target's device. Mentions deepfake audio used to impersonate LastPass CEO Karim Toubba in a phishing campaign. Also mentions a robocall campaign using a deepfake of then-President Joe Biden’s voice to discourage New Hampshire Democrats from voting. | US federal or state government officials and their contacts | Audio | Ars Technica |
| May 15, 2025 | A malicious messaging campaign using AI-generated voice messages impersonating senior U.S. officials to gain access to personal data. The campaign involves text messages or AI-generated voice messages claiming to be from a senior U.S. official to establish rapport before attempting to gain access to accounts. Bad actors send a link under the guise of transitioning to a different messaging platform. | U.S. federal or state government officials and their contacts | Audio | The Hill |
| May 15, 2025 | Deepfake videos of PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar were circulated with misleading claims by Pakistani users. The videos were created using AI tools for propaganda purposes, falsely claiming that these leaders have publicly accepted defeat after Indian air strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan and PoK. Analysis revealed unnatural lip movements and AI-generated audio tracks. | PM Modi, Amit Shah, S Jaishankar | Video, Audio | Vishvas News |
| May 14, 2025 | Students are using AI deepfake porn tools to create a naked image of a female classmate for bullying purposes. | Classmates, specifically a female student | Image | CTV News |
| May 14, 2025 | A 14-year-old girl, Elliston Berry, was the victim of a deepfake attack where AI was used to create deepfake images of her by a boy at her school. Snapchat refused to remove the images initially, inspiring Senator Ted Cruz to introduce the Take It Down Act. | Elliston Berry | Image | Newsweek |
| May 14, 2025 | The article discusses the increase in AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), also known as deepfakes, and the legal loopholes that exist in Massachusetts regarding their prosecution. It mentions a case where a perpetrator created a sexually explicit collage of a teenage girl using an image from her social media, but could not be prosecuted due to the loophole. It is mentioned that reports involving AI-generated CSAM have increased by 380% since 2023. | Minors | Image, Video | MassLive |
| May 14, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Alabama's underwater forest was posted on Facebook and shared by the City of Orange Beach account without disclosing its AI origin. The image was presented as real, which caused concern and damaged efforts to create an ecotourism economy. | Efforts to create ecotourism economy around the underwater forest. | Image | Gulf Coast Media |
| May 14, 2025 | Kristi George and her daughter were victims of AI-generated "revenge porn". This incident led to House Bill 2299 A, which aims to criminalize the dissemination of pornographic or sexually explicit images generated through artificial intelligence in Oregon. The bill modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include digitally created, manipulated, or altered images. | Kristi George and her daughter | Image | KATU |
| May 14, 2025 | AI-generated biographies of Canadian political figures, including Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, and Chrystia Freeland, have appeared on Amazon. These books contain errors, misleading information, and nonsensical content, potentially diluting search results and harming authors' market share. The books are often cheaper than legitimate titles, potentially deceiving bargain hunters. | Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, Chrystia Freeland | The Globe and Mail | |
| May 14, 2025 | AI-generated images posted on Facebook falsely claimed Alvin Kamara had a child with his girlfriend. The images showed Kamara and a woman holding a baby in a hospital bed and included a 'Meta AI' watermark. The post went viral in a Saints Facebook fan group. | Alvin Kamara | Image | NOLA.com |
| May 14, 2025 | Saudi TV channel Al Arabiya is accused of using AI to manipulate a video of Donald Trump meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, showing Trump drinking coffee when he allegedly didn't in the original footage. The claim suggests this was done to avoid a diplomatic faux pas, as refusing coffee is considered disrespectful in Saudi culture. However, the claim is unverified. | Donald Trump | Video | Newsweek |
| May 14, 2025 | An AI avatar of Chris Pelkey, a murder victim, was created by his sister to deliver a victim impact statement in court, offering forgiveness to his killer. This is reported to be the first admittance of an AI-generated victim impact statement in a US court. | Chris Pelkey's killer | Video | WRVO Public Media |
| May 14, 2025 | Jamie Lee Curtis called out Meta after an AI ad used her image in a deepfake endorsement. The ad was removed after she tagged Mark Zuckerberg. | Jamie Lee Curtis, Meta (indirectly) | Image | Komando.com |
| May 14, 2025 | An AI-generated song and music video falsely attributed to R. Kelly was created to glorify Ibrahim Traore, the leader of Burkina Faso. The video, which contains visual inconsistencies typical of AI-generated content, was published on YouTube with a disclaimer indicating it was digitally generated. | Ibrahim Traore | Audio, Video | Yahoo |
| May 14, 2025 | Google's Gemini image-generation failures reveal philosophical confusion rather than technical problems. | Google Gemini | Image | MIT Sloan Management Review |
| May 14, 2025 | An AI-generated video was created using a genuine photo of Lee Jae-myung to depict him 'faking' his hunger strike. The video includes inconsistencies typical of AI generation, such as disappearing objects and visual elements that change throughout. It was shared on Facebook with captions suggesting Lee was pretending to work and fast. | Lee Jae-myung, South Korean presidential frontrunner | Video | Yahoo |
| May 14, 2025 | An AI avatar of Chris Pelkey, a murder victim, was created by his sister to address his killer in court. The AI-generated video served as a victim impact statement, offering forgiveness to the killer. This is potentially the first admittance of an AI-generated victim impact statement in a US court. | Killer of Chris Pelkey | Video | NPR |
| May 14, 2025 | The article describes multiple deepfake incidents: 1. In 2019, criminals used AI voice technology to impersonate a CEO's voice, convincing a manager to transfer €220,000 ($243,000) to a fraudulent account. 2. In the UK, an art gallery owner lost her business after scammers created deepfake video calls impersonating a famous actor interested in hosting an exhibition. 3. In 2023, a small business employee was tricked by a scammer who cloned the owner's voice over the phone, resulting in financial losses. | various | Video, Audio | Security Boulevard |
| May 13, 2025 | A woman in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, was charged with felony counts after AI-generated images of children performing sexual acts were found on her phone. The images were created using AI image generators. The case is one of the first under a recently amended state law that includes sexually explicit AI-generated images of children. | Children | Image | WNEP |
| May 13, 2025 | Classmates used AI software to fabricate nude images of them and female classmates. | Elliston Berry, Francesca Mani and other teenage girls | Image | The Week |
| May 13, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Jasmine Crockett in imaginary confrontations with media figures like Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, and others. These videos feature exaggerated and often aggressive interactions, with titles promising 'STUNNING' and 'DESTROYING' moments. The videos are low quality, often featuring a still image and a droning AI voice, but they garner significant views and are sometimes mistaken for real content. | Jasmine Crockett, Jimmy Kimmel, other media figures | Video | Lifehacker |
| May 13, 2025 | Scammers used AI voice-cloning technology to impersonate Steve's parents and demanded money. Steve transferred $750 to a Venmo account before realizing it was a deepfake. | Steve's parents | Audio | Tech Policy Press |
| May 13, 2025 | An AI video used snippets of an interview Jamie Lee Curtis gave to sell products. Fake words were put in her mouth. | Jamie Lee Curtis | Video | The Independent |
| May 13, 2025 | North Korean threat actors used deepfake technology to create synthetic identities for online job interviews to secure remote work positions and infiltrate organizations. | Organizations seeking remote workers | Video | The Hacker News |
| May 13, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using Jamie Lee Curtis's likeness without her permission to promote a product. The video used images from a previous interview and put words in her mouth. The video was posted on Instagram and Facebook and has since been removed. | Jamie Lee Curtis | Video, Image | MovieWeb |
| May 13, 2025 | An AI-generated video of road rage victim Chris Pelkey addressing his killer in court has gone viral. The defense lawyer criticized the video as "inauthentic." | Chris Pelkey | Video | FOX 10 Phoenix |
| May 12, 2025 | An AI-generated video features a baby character dressed like Judge Judy, speaking with her exact voice, cadence, phraseology, and substance, discussing topics like parole officers and drunken people while sitting at a judicial desk. The AI uses Judge Judy's likeness and voice without her consent. | Judge Judy Sheindlin | Video, Audio | New York Post |
| May 12, 2025 | An AI-generated ad used Jamie Lee Curtis's likeness without her consent. The ad manipulated past interview footage to falsely portray her endorsing a product she never approved. Meta removed the ad after Curtis called out Mark Zuckerberg. | Jamie Lee Curtis | Video | Decrypt |
| May 12, 2025 | 50 Cent posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as all members of the jury in Diddy's racketeering and sex trafficking trial. He also posted an image of himself as a lawyer mocking Diddy's defense. | Sean 'Diddy' Combs | Image | VICE |
| May 12, 2025 | A 3:44 AI-generated video using Jamie Lee Curtis' likeness was posted online. It features the text “I’d want everyone suffering from…” over an image of her. Curtis stated it's fake and very distressing. | Jamie Lee Curtis | Video | TheWrap |
| May 12, 2025 | Nicole Yelland was targeted in a job scam where scammers impersonated a real company and hiring manager. During a video interview (Microsoft Teams) the scammers refused to turn on their cameras and asked for personal information. Daniel Goldman mentions a prominent figure in crypto was convincingly deepfaked on a video call. Researchers are facing issues with fraudster participants in virtual surveys. | Nicole Yelland and other job seekers, Research participants | Video, Audio | WIRED |
| May 12, 2025 | AI deepfakes are used to promote bogus sexual cures and supplements, impersonating celebrities and experts to endorse products with unverified claims. Examples include a deepfake of Anthony Fauci promoting a prostate supplement and deepfakes of celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting erectile dysfunction cures. | Anthony Fauci, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, Amanda Seyfried, Robert De Niro | Video, Audio | Tech Xplore |
| May 12, 2025 | Instagram accounts are using AI-generated images, allegedly run by sex workers, to share stories related to illegal prostitution. The accounts post comic-like illustrations depicting the working environments of sex workers, gaining significant traction and followers. This raises concerns about promoting prostitution, which is illegal in South Korea, and violates Meta's community guidelines. | Sex workers in South Korea | Image | The Korea Herald |
| May 12, 2025 | Jaime Chapman, a women's footy star, has been targeted by deepfake images. An AI-generated doctored photo of her in a revealing outfit was circulated. The original image was a selfie in a gold bikini. This is not the first time she has been targeted with AI-generated images. | Jaime Chapman | Image | Daily Mail |
| May 11, 2025 | MrDeepFakes.com hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual, AI-generated pornographic deepfake videos and images of celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and private citizens. The content included graphic strangulation scenes, group sex, and masturbation videos. The site had over 650,000 users and garnered more than two billion views since 2018 before being shut down after CBC News contacted a key person behind the site. | Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Michael Bublé, Sarah Z, and other celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and private citizens | Image, Video | CBC |
| May 10, 2025 | A malware campaign uses fake AI-powered video generation tools advertised on Facebook to distribute the Noodlophile information-stealing malware. Victims upload files to malicious websites, receive a ZIP archive containing a disguised executable, and upon execution, the malware steals credentials, cookies, tokens, and cryptocurrency wallet files, exfiltrating the data via a Telegram bot. | Users seeking AI video generation tools | Video | BleepingComputer |
| May 09, 2025 | An AI-generated avatar of Christopher Pelkey, created by his family, addressed his killer, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, in court during sentencing. The avatar delivered a scripted message. The family created the video to humanize the victim for the judge and convey the impact of his death. The video was allowed because it was not presented as evidence. | Gabriel Paul Horcasitas | Video | Reuters |
| May 09, 2025 | An AI-generated version of the victim, Christopher Pelkey, was created using his face, body, and voice. This AI version 'spoke' at the sentencing hearing of his killer, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, appearing to ask the judge for leniency. The AI was created by the victim's family. | Gabriel Paul Horcasitas (defendant in the case) | Video, Audio | NBC News |
| May 09, 2025 | Stacey Wales created an AI-generated video of her deceased brother, Christopher Pelkey, to deliver a victim impact statement at his killer's sentencing hearing. The video used Pelkey's likeness and voice to read a statement written by Wales. | Gabriel Paul Horcasitas | Video | CNN |
| May 09, 2025 | A deepfake video of General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry was created, falsely stating that Pakistan had lost two aircraft. The audio was altered and overlaid on existing footage of a press conference. It was shared widely on X and picked up by Indian media outlets before being debunked. | General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, Pakistani Army | Video | Bellingcat |
| May 08, 2025 | AI-generated recruiter avatar glitches during a job interview, repeating 'vertical bar pilates' multiple times. | Ken (@its_ken04) | Video | 404 Media |
| May 08, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump as the Pope was posted on his Truth Social account and the White House's X account. The image was criticized as offensive by Catholics and others. | The Catholic Church | Image | MSNBC News |
| May 08, 2025 | A deceased manslaughter victim, Christopher Pelkey, was reanimated as an AI-generated video to speak at his killer’s sentencing. The deepfake, using his likeness and voice, presented a script prepared by his family. This impact statement was shown during sentencing, and the judge imposed a sentence one-year longer than prosecutors requested. | Christopher Pelkey | Video, Audio | Above the Law |
| May 08, 2025 | Attackers created fake AI platforms offering video and image generation. Users upload images, expecting AI-generated content, but instead download malware (Noodlophile Stealer and XWorm). The malware steals browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and allows for remote access. | Users seeking AI video generation tools | Video, Image | Morphisec |
| May 07, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump dressed as the Pope was shared on his social media accounts, agitating Catholics, especially as it coincided with mourning for Pope Francis. Trump denied posting the image, suggesting it might be AI-generated and dismissing criticism, while Catholics, including Cardinal Dolan, expressed offense. | Donald Trump, Catholics | Image | The New York Times |
| May 07, 2025 | A deepfake video of Accenture CEO Julie Sweet was used in an attempt to defraud the company. The deepfake 'Julie' appeared on a video call with the company's finance head, instructing them to transfer funds in response to an urgent request from a supposed attorney (who was off-camera). The CFO recognized the scam and validated the request, preventing the transfer of funds. | Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture | Video | Computing UK |
| May 06, 2025 | AI-generated video compilation shared online as authentic footage of wildfires in Israel. The video was initially shared in January as AI-generated representation of fires that can cause global warming and was falsely presented as authentic footage of Los Angeles wildfires. Experts confirmed the video was AI-generated, pointing out unrealistic-looking fire and smoke, warped power lines, flames merging into palm trees and inconsistent smoke clouds. | Israel | Video | Reuters |
| May 06, 2025 | AI-generated images of Katy Perry at the Met Gala fooled many people, including her mom, in 2024 and again in 2025, even though she did not attend the event. This incident involved deepfake photos that were realistic enough to deceive individuals, highlighting the potential of AI to create convincing fake content. | Katy Perry | Image | Rolling Stone |
| May 06, 2025 | The MrDeepFakes website, known for hosting nonconsensual, digitally altered, explicit sexual content, shut down after a data loss. It hosted 43,000 sexual deepfake videos depicting 3,800 individuals, including celebrities and private individuals. A study indicated motivations included sexual gratification, degradation, and humiliation. Over 1,000 videos depicted violent scenes of rape and abuse. | Celebrities and private individuals | Video | NPR |
| May 06, 2025 | AI-generated images circulated on social media depicting Katy Perry at the Met Gala in both 2024 and 2025, despite her not attending. The images fooled fans and even her own mother. The AI-generated images featured her in dresses appropriate for the Met Gala themes of those years. | Katy Perry | Image | Billboard |
| May 05, 2025 | An AI-generated image shared by President Donald Trump depicting himself as the next pope has sparked condemnation from Catholic officials. The image showed Mr. Trump wearing papal attire, and was posted after Mr. Trump’s joke about wanting to be pope after the death of Pope Francis. Catholic leaders labeled it “deeply offensive,” “sad,” and “unfortunate.” | Catholic leaders/Pope Francis | Image | Dimsum Daily |
| May 05, 2025 | The Mr. Deepfakes platform hosted 43,000 deepfake videos viewed over 1.5 billion times. These videos were generated by nearly 4,000 creators who profited from the unethical and illegal sales of non-consensual intimate imagery. The platform was shut down after a critical service provider terminated its service, potentially due to the newly passed Take It Down Act, which makes creating and distributing non-consensual intimate imagery illegal. | Celebrities and other targets appearing in non-consensual pornographic videos | Video | Ars Technica |
| May 05, 2025 | Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope on social media during the mourning period for Pope Francis. The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) condemned the image as offensive and an attack on the Catholic faith. | Catholic Church | Image | IrishCentral |
| May 05, 2025 | A Telegram bot is being used to generate nonconsensual AI videos of men ejaculating on women's faces. The bot has over 100,000 monthly active users and makes AI video generation cheap and easy to access for nefarious purposes. | Women | Video | 404 Media |
| May 05, 2025 | President Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the Pope on Truth Social. The White House's official social media account also shared it. The image generated backlash and was criticized as mockery by The New York State Catholic Conference. | Catholic Church, Pope Francis (posthumously), Timothy Cardinal Dolan | Image | CBS News |
| May 05, 2025 | AI-generated image of Donald Trump wielding a red lightsaber was posted on official White House and POTUS social media accounts for May the 4th. The image was criticized because red lightsabers are typically associated with Sith Lords, and the post was interpreted as suggesting Trump is the 'bad guy'. Also mentioned is a 'shocking AI video of a Trump-branded Gaza'. | Donald Trump (image of him used inappropriately/ mocked) | Image | Creative Bloq |
| May 05, 2025 | Mr. Deepfakes, a website hosting deepfake pornography, shut down due to a service provider terminating service and data loss. The site featured tens of thousands of non-consensual AI-generated videos and images that face-swapped female celebrities into existing porn videos. The platform had over 640,000 members at its peak. | Female celebrities | Video, Image | Times of India |
| May 05, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the pope, drawing criticism for mockery. | Pope Francis, Catholic Church | Image | FOX 5 New York |
| May 05, 2025 | Mr. Deepfakes, a leading deepfake porn site, has been shut down due to the loss of a critical service provider. The site hosted non-consensual deepfake porn, allowing users to upload, commission, and collaborate on creating such media. The creator was reportedly tracked down to a 36-year-old in Toronto. | Individuals featured in non-consensual deepfake pornography | Video | Engadget |
| May 05, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the pope was posted on social media, drawing criticism from some Catholics. Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the New York State Catholic Conference voiced outrage at the image. | Catholic community | Image | ABC News |
| May 05, 2025 | Mr. Deepfakes, a website hosting nonconsensual deepfake pornography, has shut down due to a critical service provider terminating service. The site hosted deepfake videos using machine learning to swap faces, often inserting celebrities into pornographic content without their consent. The shutdown coincides with the passage of the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfake porn. | Celebrities, individuals whose faces were used without consent | Video | Mashable |
| May 05, 2025 | AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the Pope was posted on his Truth Social account and reposted by the White House across social media. Other images included Trump wielding a lightsaber and other scenarios such as Trump as a king or gangster. | Catholic community/institutions, potentially political opponents | Image | Reuters |
| May 05, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the Pope was posted on his Truth Social account. Trump claims he didn't create or post the image. The image was criticized for disrespecting the Catholic faith, especially during the mourning period for Pope Francis. Trump defended it as a joke. | Donald Trump, Pope Francis, Catholics | Image | USA Today |
| May 05, 2025 | AI-generated image of Donald Trump as pope posted on social media. The New York State Catholic Conference and Timothy Cardinal Dolan responded negatively to the image. | Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Catholic Church | Image | CBS News |
| May 05, 2025 | AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as a pope posted on social media. | Pope Francis and the Catholic Church | Image | CBS News |
| May 05, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope on Truth Social, which was criticized by the New York State Catholic Conference as mocking. | Pope Francis (posthumously), Catholics | Image | Times of India |
| May 05, 2025 | The White House posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a muscular Sith Lord holding a red lightsaber. Star Wars fans pointed out the negative connotations of the image. | Donald Trump | Image | The Independent |
| May 04, 2025 | The White House released an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a Sith Lord on X (formerly Twitter). The image generated mixed responses, with some pointing out the irony of using a red lightsaber, which signifies a villain. The White House was previously criticized for using AI to create a Studio Ghibli-style image of an ICE officer detaining an immigrant. | Donald Trump (image depicts him) | Image | Deadline |
| May 04, 2025 | AI-authored books about ADHD, likely created by chatbots like ChatGPT, are being sold on Amazon. These books contain misinformation, harmful advice, and inaccuracies. The books are marketed as expert guides but lack proper qualifications and contain AI-generated content. | People seeking information and techniques to manage ADHD, specifically adult men with ADHD. Richard Wordsworth is specifically mentioned as being affected by the books. | The Guardian | |
| May 04, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump as pope was created, leading to backlash and responses from JD Vance, the New York State Catholic Conference, and the White House press secretary. The image was considered a joke by some, while others viewed it as mockery. | Donald Trump | Image | FOX 5 DC |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted a seemingly AI-generated image of himself as pope on Truth Social, which was then amplified by the White House. The image depicted Trump in papal regalia. The post was criticized by Catholics, including the New York State Catholic Conference and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, for being offensive and mocking the Church after the death of Pope Francis. | Catholics / Pope Francis (deceased) | Image | NBC News |
| May 04, 2025 | The White House social media accounts posted AI-generated images of Donald Trump as a muscular Jedi and as the Pope. The images were posted on X and Instagram. The post came just weeks after Pope Francis died on April 21. | Donald Trump | Image | Variety |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the Pope on Truth Social. The White House reposted the image on its official X account. Trump joked about becoming the next head of the Catholic Church and suggested Cardinal Timothy Dolan for the role. | Pope Francis, Cardinal Timothy Dolan | Image | Yahoo |
| May 04, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the Pope was shared on his TruthSocial account and official White House social media accounts. | Donald Trump (indirectly the Catholic Church) | Image | usccb |
| May 04, 2025 | The White House posted an AI-generated photo of Trump dressed as the pope. | Donald Trump, The Pope | Image | USA Today |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social platform, which was then reshared by the White House on its official X account. The image was posted shortly after Pope Francis's funeral and before the conclave to elect his successor, leading to criticism from Catholic leaders and others who found it offensive and in poor taste. | Roman Catholic community | Image | CNN |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social platform and the White House X account, leading to criticism from Catholic figures and the Italian media. The image was posted shortly after Pope Francis' funeral and before the conclave to elect his successor. | Catholic Community/Pope Francis | Image | CNN |
| May 04, 2025 | AI-generated image of President Donald Trump as the pope was posted online by the president and the White House. Cardinal Dolan reacted to the image. | Cardinal Timothy Dolan | Image | TODAY.com |
| May 04, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Donald Trump wearing papal robes was posted on Instagram by Trump and the White House after Pope Francis' funeral. The image was mocked by SNL and condemned by the New York State Catholic Conference for disrespecting the late Pope and the upcoming conclave. | Donald Trump, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Church | Image | Business Insider |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself in papal robes on Truth Social after joking about becoming the next Pope. The post sparked laughter, outrage, and confusion online. | Donald Trump | Image | Times of India |
| May 04, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the pope days before the conclave was set to elect Pope Francis' successor. The Vatican declined to comment. | Pope Francis and the Vatican | Image | CNN |
| May 03, 2025 | AI-generated photo of Donald Trump in full pope attire released by the White House. | General Public | Image | CBS News |
| May 03, 2025 | An AI-generated image of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was posted on a Pentagon account depicting him at the U.S./Mexico border with flaws such as a missing pinky and being positioned on the Mexican side of the border. The image also featured masked men, one labeled with the word 'DRUGS'. | Pete Hegseth | Image | Alternet |
| May 03, 2025 | The White House X account posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump in papal attire, causing outrage among Catholics. The New York State Catholic Conference called the image unfunny and disrespectful. | Catholics/Catholic Church | Image | Euronews.com |
| May 03, 2025 | An AI-generated image of President Trump dressed as a pope was circulated on social media, including being shared by Trump himself and later the White House. This occurred before a conclave to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church. | Catholic Church | Image | LiveNOW from FOX |
| May 03, 2025 | The White House posted an AI-generated photo of Donald Trump depicted as the pope days after Trump joked about wanting to be pope and before the conclave to elect the new pope after Pope Francis' death. | Pope Francis (posthumously) and the Catholic Church | Image | CNBC |
| May 03, 2025 | Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social and White House official accounts depicting himself as the Pope. He has also shared other AI generated images, including a video depicting Gaza as a Trump resort and images claiming Taylor Swift endorsed him. | General Public | Image | Variety |
| May 02, 2025 | Minnesota passed a law criminalizing the use of AI-generated deepfakes to influence an election. X Corp is suing, arguing the law violates free speech rights and contravenes Section 230. The lawsuit highlights an example of AI images depicting police arresting Donald Trump as a potential violation of the statute. | Political candidates in Minnesota elections | Image, Video | Business Insider |
| May 02, 2025 | The article discusses the increasing use of generative AI in various scams, including phishing, romance scams, and deepfake attacks. It mentions a specific instance where scammers used an AI-generated voice to impersonate someone in the IT department and trick support team members into revealing passwords. It also references a widely reported case from last February in which a Hong Kong employee was allegedly tricked into transferring $25 million to scammers using a video call featuring a deepfake of the CFO. | Companies and individuals, specifically support teams, residents of Quebec and Portugal | Audio, Video | theregister.com |
| May 02, 2025 | AI-generated cartoon videos with gore and fetish content, reminiscent of Elsagate, are appearing on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app. These videos often depict children's characters in perilous, sexual, and abusive situations, or kittens being abused. They are being created rapidly and in large volumes using generative AI to circumvent YouTube's algorithms and monetize the content. YouTube has terminated some channels and removed videos, but new ones quickly reappear. | Children (YouTube Kids app users) | Video | WIRED |
| May 02, 2025 | A financial worker in Hong Kong paid out $25 million to scammers after they deepfaked the company's CFO and other staff members in a video call. | Financial worker's company in Hong Kong | Video | Business Insider |
| May 02, 2025 | A woman in France was scammed out of almost a million euros by someone posing as Brad Pitt using deepfakes and details from real-life news reports about Pitt’s divorce. BBC's Scam Interceptors also disrupted scams involving a Reese Witherspoon deepfake, where scammers impersonated celebrities like Mariah Carey, Jenna Ortega, and Keanu Reeves to extort money. | Woman in France scammed by someone posing as Brad Pitt, BBC's Scam Interceptors | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| May 02, 2025 | A teenage boy was suspended from St Ignatius' College in Adelaide after creating and disseminating a deepfake image of a teacher. The nature of the deepfake is not explicitly stated as sexually explicit, but the school is investigating and supporting the staff member involved. The incident led to a police contact but no official report at the time of the article. The incident is mentioned in the context of new legislation criminalizing deepfakes. | A teacher at St Ignatius' College | Image | Daily Mail |
| May 01, 2025 | BBC Maestro launched a writing course 'taught' by a recreated Agatha Christie using an actress and AI, drawing from her works. Critics labeled it a 'deepfake,' though the Christie estate and BBC deny this, citing their collaboration and ethical approach. The course aims to distill Christie's craft using her own words. | Agatha Christie (posthumously) | Video | Mashable |
| May 01, 2025 | Bree Smith, a former TV meteorologist, is a victim of an online sextortion scam where her image was doctored into explicit pictures and videos for money. The FBI says that tens of thousands of Americans were targetted with this scam last year. | Bree Smith | Image, Video | CBS News |
| Apr 30, 2025 | AI was used to generate approximately 40% of the multiple-choice questions on the California Bar Exam in February 2025. The AI-generated questions were poorly worded and did not align with standard legal terminology, leading to a flawed assessment of the examinees' competence. | California Bar Examinees (February 2025) | Balls and Strikes | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake of Elliston Berry, a then-14-year-old, was created and posted to Snapchat. Snapchat refused to remove the deepfake for nearly a year, leading to the introduction of the Take It Down Act. | Elliston Berry | Image | Free Speech Center |
| Apr 30, 2025 | The Indian government is accused of using AI to generate sketches of suspects in the Pahalgam attack. The sketches appear to be AI-generated, raising suspicions that the incident was staged or exaggerated for political purposes. The images were created within minutes using AI tools, undermining the authenticity of official claims. | Pahalgam attackers (potentially falsely accused) | Image | Dunya News |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Indian authorities allegedly used AI to generate sketches of suspects in the Pahalgam attack to create a false narrative and mislead global opinion. The AI-generated sketches are said to lack human input and uniformity in facial features, suggesting AI creation. Pakistan claims this is a deceitful tactic by India. | Global opinion, Pakistan | Image | Aaj English TV |
| Apr 30, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting UK police officers kneeling in front of Muslim men circulated online. The image contains anomalies indicative of AI generation, such as distorted body proportions and errors in depiction of hands. It was shared on social media platforms like X and Facebook with a polarizing caption. | UK Police and Muslim community | Image | Full Fact |
| Apr 30, 2025 | AI tools are used to steal identities and commit financial aid fraud by completing assignments, emailing professors, and taking exams. | Southwestern College and other community colleges | Voice of San Diego | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | A 17-year-old, known as 'Pandora,' extorted personal information from victims by claiming to have seen deepfake videos of them being spread on Telegram. He then requested pictures of their bodies to compare with the videos. He threatened to spread the videos and photographs, leading to more extreme levels of sexual exploitation. He created 34 instances of sexually explicit deepfakes from 19 victims. | 19 girls in their early to mid-teens | Video, Image | Hankyoreh : English Edition |
| Apr 30, 2025 | The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) released two AI-generated videos depicting individuals with uncovered heads and shorn hair playing musical instruments at the sarovar (holy tank) of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. These videos were shared on the ministry’s official YouTube and social media platforms and were later removed following objections from the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). | Golden Temple, Sikh community | Video | The Indian Express |
| Apr 30, 2025 | An AI-generated video of Donald Trump licking and kissing Elon Musk’s feet was displayed on monitors at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to protest Musk's actions. | Donald Trump, Elon Musk, US Department of Housing and Urban Development | Video | Medical Republic |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Images of Lucy Adams Stevenson and other girls were altered without their consent. The images were sexually explicit. The person who created the images was not arrested, but the person who shared them was. | Lucy Adams Stevenson and other girls | Image | wtsp.com |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A deepfake video showed former Congressman Mark Walker appearing to admit to lies. The original video had him saying, "Kamala Harris has done nothing as the border czar," but the deepfake changed it to: "I have been caught in so many lies. The public now knows more about me than my own family. I hope you can forgive me." | Mark Walker | Video | wfmynews2.com |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A 14-year-old girl, Elliston Berry, was the victim of a deepfake attack where a classmate created fake naked photos of her using AI. The incident led to the creation and passage of the 'Take It Down Act'. | Elliston Berry | Image | FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A St. George man, Jared Marsh, was arrested for possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse images. The Santa Clara-Ivins Police Department discovered the images on Marsh's cellphone and residence after responding to a report of lewdness. The images depicted juveniles in a nude state. | Juveniles | Image | KSL News |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Meta's AI bots were capable of engaging in sexually explicit audio conversations through AI versions of celebrities like John Cena and Kristen Bell. Meta banned underage accounts from accessing sexual role play with Meta AI and reducing the ability for celebrity voices to have sexual conversations. | John Cena and Kristen Bell | Audio | dailyvoice.com |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A client received a phone call that led to a social media attack which cost his company millions. The Flurp was created to help avoid similar problems. | Client's company | PCMag | |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A classmate used an artificial intelligence program to turn innocent photos of Elliston, 14 years old, and her friends into realistic-looking nudes and distributed the images on social media. | Elliston and her friends | Image | Senator Ted Cruz (.gov) |
| Apr 29, 2025 | The article describes 'AI Slop', low quality AI-generated content. Several examples are given including political parodies and propaganda such as AI-generated images of politicians (Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden) in bizarre scenarios, and doctored images like Taylor Swift endorsing Trump. | Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Taylor Swift | Image, Video | Built In |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Researchers from the University of Zurich used AI-generated comments to attempt to change the views of Reddit users on the r/changemyview subreddit. The AI took on different identities and personalized responses based on user's posting history. The experiment was conducted without the users' consent and violated subreddit rules. | Reddit users of r/changemyview | Engadget | |
| Apr 29, 2025 | The Chinese Communist Party released a propaganda video that appears to be at least partially AI-generated, criticizing Trump's tariffs and urging the world to isolate the US. The video includes footage of the Statue of Liberty and compares the trade war to a 'deadly trap.' Other anti-American videos also went viral on TikTok, ridiculing US infrastructure and comparing it unfavorably to China's. | Donald Trump Administration and the United States | Video | New York Post |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift were created and posted on X and disseminated across other social media platforms. | Taylor Swift | Image | The Independent |
| Apr 29, 2025 | The article discusses the Take It Down Act, which aims to criminalize nonconsensual deepfake pornography. It mentions that Taylor Swift was a victim of nonconsensual deepfake pornography. | Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Elon Musk | Image | CyberScoop |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A male classmate created a deepfake nude image of her and posted it on social media. | 14-year-old girl from Texas | Image | PCMag |
| Apr 29, 2025 | An AI-generated image circulated on social media falsely depicting Donald Trump dancing with a 13-year-old girl on Epstein's private island. Experts identified AI manipulation based on digital forensics, including an unnaturally elongated forearm, a distorted thumb, and background anomalies. | Donald Trump | Image | Full Fact |
| Apr 29, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicted Pope Francis in Heaven interacting with various celebrities, including some controversial figures. The video sparked outrage online and was described as 'creepy' and 'disrespectful'. | Pope Francis | Video | Daily Mail |
| Apr 29, 2025 | An AI-generated video falsely depicts President William Ruto staging a hospital visit to promote the Social Health Authority (SHA). The video was created using a 2019 image of Ruto visiting a terror attack victim. The deepfake video was posted on TikTok and attempts to portray Ruto in a negative light, suggesting the SHA launch involved a PR stunt using a patient. | William Ruto, President of Kenya | Video | Yahoo |
| Apr 29, 2025 | A Pittsboro resident mistakenly paid thousands of dollars to a scammer who posed as her grandson. | Pittsboro resident | WRAL.com | |
| Apr 29, 2025 | General information about deepfakes, including examples like Pope Francis in a puffer jacket, Trump in a scuffle with police, Zuckerberg giving a speech, and Queen Elizabeth dancing. Also discusses positive uses of deepfakes. | celebrities, politicians, CEOs, ordinary citizens | Image, Video, Audio | Britannica |
| Apr 28, 2025 | A classmate used an app to create explicit images of her and then sent them to her classmates. | Elliston Berry | Image | CBS News |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Some voters in New Hampshire received a robocall last year from an AI-generated voice that sounded like former President Biden urging them not to vote in the state's primary election. | Voters in New Hampshire | Audio | Maine Public |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Meta's AI chatbots, using the voices of celebrities John Cena and Kristen Bell, were manipulated by reporters posing as minors into having sexually explicit conversations. The chatbots described sexual fantasies involving minors using the celebrities' voices. Internal documents suggest Meta was aware of the issue and celebrities were assured safeguards would be implemented. | John Cena, Kristen Bell, Disney (characters) | Audio | eWEEK |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Meta's AI chatbots, using licensed voices of celebrities like John Cena, Kristen Bell, and Judi Dench, engaged in sexually explicit conversations, including with minors. The bots sometimes described romantic encounters involving characters played by the actors, including Bell's Princess Anna from Disney's Frozen. Disney has stated that it did not authorize Meta to use their characters in inappropriate scenarios. | John Cena, Kristen Bell, Judi Dench, Disney's Frozen | Audio | Deadline |
| Apr 28, 2025 | An AI-generated image critical of the Telangana government's plans to clear forested land was reposted by IAS officer Smita Sabharwal. The image depicted bulldozers near wildlife and was used to criticize the government's actions. The government alleged that such images were used to mislead the public and incite unrest. Smita Sabharwal was later transferred from her position. | Telangana government | Image | The South First |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Scammers clone voices of loved ones using AI to solicit money from victims, often impersonating grandchildren in distress or claiming a family member has been arrested and needs bail money. | Elderly individuals and general public | Audio | Hindustan Times |
| Apr 28, 2025 | The article discusses the rise of AI apps that create sexually explicit images of children, particularly targeting girls. It mentions a significant increase in reported cases of AI-generated child sexual abuse material and calls for a ban on 'nudification' apps. While it doesn't detail a specific instance with a named victim, it refers to abuse happening in schools. | Children, specifically girls and young women | Image | BBC |
| Apr 28, 2025 | AI-generated images were created, depicting Taylor Swift fans supporting Trump and Kamala Harris in a communist uniform. Baseless claims spread that the Harris campaign was spreading AI images. | Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift | Image | CTech |
| Apr 28, 2025 | A fake nude image of Elliston Berry was created by a male classmate and circulated on social media. | Elliston Berry | Image | NBC News |
| Apr 27, 2025 | Meta's AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram, using voices of celebrities (John Cena, Kristen Bell, Judi Dench) and Disney characters (Anna from Frozen), engaged in graphic sex talk with users, including children. The AI bots were capable of acting out inappropriate and illegal sexual scenarios, including simulations of statutory rape. Disney stated they did not authorize Meta to feature their characters in inappropriate scenarios. | John Cena, Kristen Bell, Judi Dench, Disney (Anna from Frozen), Children using Meta's AI Chatbots | Audio | New York Post |
| Apr 27, 2025 | A legal brief filed by Mike Lindell's lawyer, Christopher Kachouroff, contained approximately thirty fabricated legal citations. Kachouroff admitted that the brief was generated by a chatbot and that he failed to check the accuracy of the information before filing it with the court. Judge Wang is investigating the matter, and disciplinary proceedings may occur. | Eric Coomer, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Wang | Gizmodo | |
| Apr 27, 2025 | IAS officer Smita Sabharwal was transferred after reposting an AI-generated image on social media concerning tree cutting near Hyderabad Central University. She questioned if similar action was taken against 2,000 others who shared the same post, alleging selective targeting. | Smita Sabharwal | Image | NDTV |
| Apr 27, 2025 | Explicit deepfake images of a South Korean woman surfaced online. The incident occurred at South Korean universities and schools, where deepfake sex crimes are a concern. The victim took action after the deepfakes were published. | A South Korean woman (unnamed) | Image | CNN |
| Apr 26, 2025 | Congress is set to pass a new law that would make it a crime to publish non-consensual deepfake images. NBC News' Melanie Zanona spoke to one teenager who says the images upended her life. | Teenager | Image | NBC News |
| Apr 26, 2025 | Australian radio station CADA used an AI-generated host named Thy for a music show without disclosing it to listeners. The AI was created using voice cloning technology from ElevenLabs. Listeners suspected something was amiss, and audio analysis revealed inconsistencies, leading to the revelation of the AI host. The radio station defended its actions as exploring new technology to enhance content. | Listeners of Australian Radio Network's CADA station | Audio | The Independent |
| Apr 26, 2025 | AI voice cloning is used by scammers to mimic voices of family, friends, and coworkers to steal money. They use AI programs with short audio clips to create voice clones, and then create fake emergencies to request funds. Scammers may impersonate relatives, bosses, real estate agents, lawyers, accountants or financial advisors. | Loved ones, bosses, real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, financial advisors | Audio | CNET |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Ruma's face was edited onto naked bodies and shared in a Telegram chat room. Kim, a teacher, had inappropriate photos of her taken in the classroom on Twitter. Her hair was made messy, and her body was altered and added onto nude photos. | Ruma, Kim, and at least 61 other victims including 12 SNU students. | Image | CNN |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Australian radio station CADA used an AI-generated DJ named Thy, modeled after a real employee, to host a four-hour segment without disclosing it to listeners. The AI voice was created using ElevenLabs and reached at least 72,000 people. Teresa Lim criticized the lack of disclosure. | CADA radio listeners | Audio | The Verge |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Australian radio station CADA used an AI-generated DJ named Thy to host a four-hour music segment called 'Workdays with Thy' without disclosing that the host was AI-generated. Thy's voice and likeness are modeled after an actual employee and created using ElevenLabs. The show reached at least 72,000 people. | Listeners of CADA radio station in Sydney | Audio | The Verge |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Deepfake videos and Photoshopped images of a Financial Times journalist were used in over 1,700 advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to promote a fraudulent investment group. The ads reached over 970,000 users in the EU alone. Meta removed some ads after being notified but the deepfakes continued to reappear. | Financial Times journalist (unnamed in article) | Video, Image | Financial Times |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The article discusses the increasing ease and accessibility of voice cloning technology, and how it's being used in scams like 'family emergency' scams and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. It also mentions the Drake/The Weeknd AI-generated song controversy and a lawsuit by voice actors against an AI startup. | General Public, Celebrities, Corporations | Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The article discusses voice cloning technology, its potential for misuse in scams such as family emergency scams and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, and the legal landscape surrounding voice biometrics and AI. Mentions the Drake/The Weeknd AI-generated song controversy and a lawsuit by voice actors against an AI startup. | Ordinary people, celebrities, businesses | Audio | Infosecurity Magazine |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Lawyers in the Coomer v. Lindell case submitted a brief containing nearly thirty defective citations, including fabricated cases, misquotes, and misattributed legal principles, generated by AI. The defense attorney admitted to using Gen AI but failed to verify the information. | Court system; Judge Nina Y. Wang | NatLawReview.com | |
| Apr 25, 2025 | AI-generated avatars impersonate health professionals to promote supplements and wellness products on TikTok and Instagram. These videos present sales pitches as medical advice, leading to potentially risky purchases. Some videos touted a "natural extract" as an alternative to Ozempic, directing viewers to an Amazon page. Others promoted unapproved drugs or fake cures for serious illnesses, sometimes impersonating real doctors. Researchers found over 20 TikTok and Instagram accounts using deepfake doctors. | Consumers of health products on TikTok and Instagram | Video | WeLiveSecurity |
| Apr 25, 2025 | An AI-generated image of a durian farm was posted in a Facebook group and shared outside of it, leading to speculation about illegal planters in the Raub district of Pahang, Malaysia. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) questioned the uploader and stated that the image led to negative perceptions about illegal farms. | Illegal planters in the Raub district, Pahang | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Apr 25, 2025 | An AI-generated image of a durian farm was posted online, suggesting the existence of undiscovered illegal farms in Raub, Pahang. This led to public speculation and negative perceptions regarding illegal planters in the area. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) questioned the person who uploaded the image. | Public perception of illegal durian farms in Raub district, Pahang | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Students used AI apps to generate fake nude photos of several female students at Cascade High School. The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office and Cascade Police Department are investigating. The school district has taken disciplinary action. | Female students at Cascade High School | Image | KCRG |
| Apr 24, 2025 | The article discusses a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against the state of Minnesota regarding its deepfake election law. It mentions deepfake videos of Kamala Harris making false statements and fake images of Donald Trump being arrested. The law prohibits the dissemination of deepfakes within 90 days of an election if a reasonable person wouldn't know it was fake and it was meant to injure a candidate. | Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and potentially other candidates in Minnesota elections | Video, Image | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Stephen Fry's voice recordings were used to create an AI version of his voice without his permission. This AI voice was then used to narrate a historical documentary, which Fry had no knowledge of. The AI tool could potentially be used to have Fry's voice read anything, including inappropriate content. | Stephen Fry | Audio | The Guardian |
| Apr 24, 2025 | AssessFirst launched an AI Voice Agent that assesses technical skills and language levels of candidates with precision. This helps accelerate and secure talent assessment while ensuring an objective, fair, and predictive selection process. | candidates being assessed by companies | Audio | Yahoo Finance |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Daniel Joseph Broadway pleaded guilty to possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse materials. He was arrested after officers found thousands of AI-generated photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse. | Children | Image, Video | WBTV |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Adam Erdman was arrested for using AI photo editing software to create and share AI-generated nude images of underage children from innocent vacation photos. He emailed these images. | Underage Children | Image | NBC10 Philadelphia |
| Apr 23, 2025 | AI-generated images of dead bodies were falsely linked to the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. AI detection tools confirmed the images were highly likely AI-generated, with errors like unusual faces and ill-formed bodies. The images were intended to mislead the public about the attack. | Pahalgam terror attack victims and public perception of the attack | Image | The Quint |
| Apr 23, 2025 | A 16-year-old student edited photos of a 17-year-old into pornographic images. | 17-year-old female | Image | The Straits Times |
| Apr 23, 2025 | A health and wellness brand misused Ramya Subramanian's video with an AI-generated voiceover without her consent. She claims this is the third time her video has been misused in this way and has threatened legal action. | Ramya Subramanian | Video, Audio | News18 |
| Apr 23, 2025 | A 16-year-old private school student allegedly created AI deepfake porn images of his schoolmates and sold them online for as low as RM2 each. At least 29 reports had been lodged against him up to April 15. The teen was arrested on April 8. | Schoolmates of a 16-year-old student | Image | The Star |
| Apr 23, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price kissing Alan Jones was circulated online. Experts identified inconsistencies in skin tone, distortions around the eyes, and unnatural movements as indicators of AI manipulation. The deepfake used a photo from 2019. | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Video | OZ Arab Media |
| Apr 22, 2025 | AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery is becoming more realistic. The IWF received 245 reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery that broke UK law in 2024 – an increase of 380% on the 51 seen in 2023. The reports equated to 7,644 images and a small number of videos. | Children | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Crosswalks were hacked to play satirical deepfakes of billionaire tech giants in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City and Seattle. | Billionaire tech giants | Audio | Boise State Public Radio |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Miami Beach realtor Andres Asion were used to catfish a woman in the UK. The videos mimicked Asion's voice and appearance to create a false relationship. The woman was scammed into believing she was in a real relationship with Asion. | Andres Asion | Video | WPLG Local 10 |
| Apr 22, 2025 | AI-generated job candidates are using deepfake images and AI-generated audio during interviews. Dawid Moczadlo noticed an applicant's image looked 'off' during a Zoom call and the responses were similar to ChatGPT. Some fake profiles are linked to North Korean IT workers who have landed jobs and pose cybersecurity threats. | Companies (specifically tech companies) | Image, Audio | Forbes |
| Apr 22, 2025 | AI was used to enhance the Hungarian accent of actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in the movie *The Brutalist*. The AI tool Respeecher was used to add Hungarian words and correct pronunciation in the actors' dialogue. This was done because Hungarian is a difficult language for native English speakers to pronounce, and traditional ADR techniques were not sufficient. The goal was to subtly enhance the actors' performances without significantly altering their voices. | Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones | Audio | The Mirror |
| Apr 22, 2025 | An AOS 47 teacher was targeted with a deepfake video. The Orrington superintendent informed parents of the malicious digital attack. The video had no basis in reality and was shared by a small group of students. The account that posted the video has been reported and taken down. The school district is offering its full support to the teacher. | AOS 47 teacher | Video | WABI |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Someone posted images of Bree Smith's face on a semi-nude body online. There were also numerous imposters on social media tricking her fans into sending money. This led to the Preventing Deep Fake Images Act in Tennessee. | Bree Smith | Image | The Tennessean |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Deepfake-driven fraud led to $200 million in financial losses in Q1 2025. Public figure impersonations account for 47% of deepfakes, with politicians being the most impersonated (33%) followed by TV/film actors (26%). The use of deepfakes to impersonate public figures has led to at least $350 million losses. Deepfake use has expanded to involve reputational damage, targeted harassment and blackmail. | Public figures, everyday people, women, children, educational institutions | Image, Video, Audio | Security Magazine |
| Apr 22, 2025 | A biography was written about Scaachi Koul using AI and sold on Amazon with a decade-old photo of her. The book was poorly written and seemed to be pulled from Wikipedia. | Scaachi Koul | Image | Slate |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Deepfake videos impersonating public figures and senior officials promote a fake AI-driven investment platform supposedly endorsed by SBI, promising unrealistic returns to trick people into making financial commitments. | SBI customers | Video | The Economic Times |
| Apr 22, 2025 | AI-generated nude images of at least 37 Dutch and Flemish influencers, including at least 11 minors, were created using AI undressing apps and shared on a Telegram channel. The images were created using social media images of the influencers. The Telegram channel had 2,200 members and was taken offline after an investigation. | Dutch and Flemish influencers, including at least 11 minors | Image | NL Times |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Crosswalk signals in Seattle and Silicon Valley were hacked to play satirical audio impressions of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. The audio, likely generated using AI, played messages when pedestrians pressed the crosswalk buttons. The hacks exploited default passwords on the crosswalk signals. | Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk | Audio | KUOW |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Hayne Beard was arrested for allegedly posting AI-generated pornographic photos of North Carolina State University students on a pornographic site. The photos targeted 28 sorority members and were posted on EroMe. He faces two counts of misdemeanor stalking because the new law targeting AI-generated sexualized images was not yet in effect at the time of the incident. | North Carolina State University students, specifically 28 sorority members | Image | WRAL.com |
| Apr 21, 2025 | North Korean actors are using deepfakes to get hired by US companies in IT positions. Once hired, the actors steal data including customer and client information. A 2024 DOJ lawsuit mentions an Arizona woman conspiring with foreign individuals and entities, including North Korea, to defraud U.S. companies of $6.8 million via a remote hiring scheme, which involved falsified employment eligibility forms and wage and benefits information for IT workers whose identities were stolen or borrowed from U.S. persons. | U.S. Companies | Video | HR Dive |
| Apr 21, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was shared by far-right Israeli settlers, drawing condemnation across the Arab world. | Al-Aqsa Mosque | Video | Haaretz |
| Apr 21, 2025 | A small company lost $300,000 due to a CEO impersonation attack involving voice deepfakes. Attackers use as little as three minutes of audio to create convincing voice impersonations. | Small company | Audio | MSSP Alert |
| Apr 21, 2025 | North Korean IT workers are using real-time deepfakes during remote job interviews to impersonate other candidates and infiltrate organizations. They use cheap hardware and readily available tools to create synthetic identities. | Organizations globally seeking remote IT workers | Video | GBHackers News |
| Apr 21, 2025 | AI-generated videos featuring Singaporean politicians, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, have surged on TikTok ahead of the general elections. The videos include AI-generated portraits and text-to-speech voiceovers, sometimes depicting politicians in unusual costumes. Some videos violate a new law banning digitally manipulated content that misrepresents candidates. Authorities are monitoring the situation and may issue corrective directions. | Lawrence Wong, Lee Hsien Loong, Chee Hong Tat, Desmond Lee, Edwin Tong, Gan Kim Yong and Heng Swee Keat | Video | The Economic Times |
| Apr 21, 2025 | A surge in AI-generated videos related to Singapore's general election featured digitally manipulated visuals of politicians in unlikely costumes with text-to-speech voiceovers. Some videos violate a new law banning digitally generated or manipulated content that misrepresents what candidates say or do. | Lawrence Wong, Lee Hsien Loong, Chee Hong Tat, Desmond Lee, Edwin Tong, Gan Kim Yong and Heng Swee Keat | Video | The Economic Times |
| Apr 21, 2025 | A surge in AI-generated videos related to the Singapore GE2025 elections occurred after the polls were called. CNA detected 73 such videos posted between Apr 15 and Apr 19, with 11 containing digitally generated or manipulated visuals of prospective candidates. These videos appeared on TikTok. One video featured an AI-generated portrait of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong with a text-to-speech voiceover in Thai. Some videos depict politicians in unlikely costumes. The tone in the majority of the 11 videos appears negative towards the Singapore government. | Singapore GE2025 candidates, specifically Lawrence Wong, Lee Hsien Loong, and others | Video | CNA |
| Apr 21, 2025 | North Korean IT workers are using real-time deepfake technology to infiltrate organizations through remote work positions. They are using synthetic video feeds during job interviews to present different personas. A single operator can interview for the same position multiple times using different synthetic personas, and helps operatives avoid being identified. Unit 42 demonstrated the ease of creating a real-time deepfake using readily available tools and cheap consumer hardware. | Organizations seeking remote workers, specifically those targeted by North Korean IT workers | Video | Unit 42 |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Several deepfake incidents and attempts are described. These include a fabricated video where Lee verbally abuses his wife, deepfake videos circulating on social media showing PPP candidates in fictional situations, and a clip with a fabricated image of Lee giving orders using profane language. A YouTube video shows Lee saying things like 'Let’s ruin the country together' and 'I’ve added a vasal state for Brother Xi Jinping.' | Lee Jae-myung | Video, Image | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Apr 19, 2025 | A scam ring in Hong Kong used deepfakes to replace photos on lost identity cards with fraudsters' faces, bypassing bank verification checks to open accounts. They merged scammers' facial features with cardholders' appearances using deepfake technology and uploaded selfies to impersonate cardholders during online verification. 30 out of 44 applications were successful. Eight people were arrested in connection to the scam. | Hong Kong banks | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Pindrop CEO discusses the rise of audio deepfakes, particularly targeting retirement homes and impersonating employees/executives. They observed a 760 percent increase in audio deepfakes between 2023 and 2024. Fraudsters are using these deepfakes to scam elderly people out of money and trick employees into transferring millions to fraudulent accounts. | Senior citizens, employees, potential hires, executives | Audio | Biometric Update |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Manta Network co-founder Kenny Li was targeted in a Zoom hack where attackers used pre-recorded footage to impersonate team members. The attackers attempted to trick Li into downloading malware disguised as a Zoom update. The attack is suspected to be the work of Lazarus Group. | Kenny Li | Video | CryptoNinjas |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The League, a far-right Italian political party, used AI-generated images on social media to depict men of color, often armed, attacking women or police officers. These images were presented alongside reports of crimes, falsely associating immigrants and Arabs with violence and inciting hatred. The images often featured blurred faces to mislead viewers into believing they were real. The Democratic party (PD), with the Greens and Left Alliance, filed a complaint with Agcom, the Italian communications regulatory authority, alleging the fake images used by the League contained “almost all categories of hate speech”. | Immigrants, Arabs | Image | The Guardian |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Artists are concerned about AI's ability to mimic their styles. Sarah Andersen sued three AI companies in January 2023 for copyright infringement, claiming they used her work to train AI models to create false versions of her comics. Hollie Mengert found an AI model replicating her art style in 2022. OpenAI's GPT-4o can generate images resembling artists' styles but now has a refusal trigger for living artists. | Sarah Andersen, Hollie Mengert, Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki) | Image | NBC News |
| Apr 18, 2025 | A BBC journalist replicated her own voice using GenAI and bypassed voice identification systems of two major UK banks. | Two major UK banks | Audio | CX Today |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Deepfake-enabled fraud caused $200 million in financial losses in Q1 2025. Top uses include non-consensual explicit content, scams and fraud, political manipulation and misinformation. Video deepfakes lead at 46%, followed by images at 32% and audio at 22%. Voice cloning requires only 3-5 seconds of audio. | public figures, private citizens, organizations | Video, Image, Audio | Variety |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Codible Ventures LLP used AI to synthesize artificial recordings of Arijit Singh's voice and used his likeness in its advertising without authorization. 456 songs from Singh’s repertoire were uploaded to AI tools without authorization, enabling users to convert any text, speech, voice recording or audio file to Singh’s AI voice version. | Arijit Singh | Audio | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Codible Ventures LLP used AI to replicate Arijit Singh's voice without authorization for advertising, infringing on his personality rights and copyright. They uploaded 456 of Singh's songs to AI tools to allow users to convert text or audio to Singh's AI voice. | Arijit Singh | Audio | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
| Apr 17, 2025 | American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for technology from Massive Blue. The technology uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence. A presentation showed some of these AI characters, including a "radicalized AI" "protest persona," which poses as a 36-year-old divorced woman interested in baking, activism, and “body positivity.” Another AI persona is a "'Honeypot' AI Persona," a 25-year-old from Dearborn, Michigan, whose parents emigrated from Yemen. Other personas are a 14-year-old boy “child trafficking AI persona,” an “AI pimp persona,” “college protestor,” “external recruiter for protests,” “escorts,” and “juveniles.” | College Protesters, Radicalized Political Activists, Suspected Drug and Human Traffickers | Image | WIRED |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Fraudsters pretended to be the CEO and used AI-generated audio to tell a financial officer to transfer millions of dollars into fictitious accounts. The employee obeyed without hesitation because the artificial voice seemed so realistic. | A financial officer at a company | Audio | IT News Africa |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Audio deepfake used to spoof Jeff Bezos' voice on Seattle crosswalks with a satirical message about wealth taxes. Similar incidents occurred in Silicon Valley impersonating Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. | Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk | Audio | KUOW |
| Apr 16, 2025 | The Act Party in New Zealand used an AI-generated image titled 'Happy Maori couple sits comfortably in a cozy living light room' in an advertisement. The image was intended to depict a Māori couple and was part of a broader collection of AI-generated stock photos featuring minority couples. Although not impersonating anyone, the lecturer Olivier Jutel, saw the use of AI-generated imagery in the political arena as an affront. The party later stated they would never use the technology to impersonate a real figure. Other parties also used AI-generated images during the campaign. | Māori people | Image | Newsroom |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Google suspended 700,000 advertiser accounts due to deepfake scams, leading to a 90% drop in reports. AI was used to detect and remove fraudulent ads. Google suspended over 39 million US ad accounts suspected of fraudulent activities. Google took down 10.7 million ads from unverified accounts. | Users exposed to ads, Google | me.pcmag.com | |
| Apr 16, 2025 | An anonymous hacker used deepfakes of Musk and Zuckerberg to create audio clips, adding them to pedestrian crossing systems in Alameda, Oakland, and San Francisco. The audio mocked Musk and Zuckerberg's integration of AI into daily experiences. | Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg | Audio | Hindustan Times |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Crosswalk signals in San Francisco's Bay Area cities played audio clips in the voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The audio clips were created using deepfakes by an anonymous hacker and added to the pedestrian crossing systems. | Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg | Audio | Hindustan Times |
| Apr 16, 2025 | An AI-generated image depicting tree felling at the Kancha Gachibowli land dispute site was reposted by IAS officer Smita Sabharwal on X. Police issued a notice to Sabharwal as a witness, investigating the source and intent behind the image's circulation after it was used during protests by University of Hyderabad (UoH) students. | Kancha Gachibowli land dispute, Smita Sabharwal (indirectly) | Image | Times of India |
| Apr 16, 2025 | A video depicting the Gaza Strip as an upmarket beach resort was created using Arcana AI platform. It was then shared by President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. The Israeli creators condemned Trump’s use of the video without any context, saying they had created it in a satirical response to his suggestion that the U.S. should take control of the territory and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” while testing the Arcana AI tools. | Gaza Strip | Video | Deadline |
| Apr 16, 2025 | A user in Bengaluru created a fake Bumble profile of a girl using AI-generated images from ChatGPT 4o. The profile received over 2750 likes within 2 hours before being shut down after 12 hours. | Bumble users | Image | Mashable India |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Four individuals were arrested in Japan for selling AI-generated pornographic images of fictitious women. The suspects allegedly used AI software and obscene images to create the fictitious images, selling them for several thousand yen each. One suspect made approximately 10 million yen (US$70,000) in about a year. | Fictitious women | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Israeli cybersecurity company Percepto International created a fake French-Ghanaian investigative journalist with a social media profile and website using AI avatars. This fake journalist was used to insert material into African mass media to smear local politicians and international organizations in Africa with fabricated revelations. | Local politicians and international organizations in Africa | Image, Audio | ISS Africa |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Pedestrian crosswalks in Silicon Valley were hacked to play audio messages impersonating Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The messages replaced standard crossing instructions with satirical greetings mimicking their voices. Approximately 10 pedestrian crossings in Menlo Park and Palo Alto were affected, and at least 12 crossings were affected in the downtown area of Palo Alto. Several crossings in Redwood City were also hacked. The audio features on these crossings have been disabled, and the activation buttons have been deactivated. | Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg | Audio | Geo.tv |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Individuals are using AI-generated images to exaggerate vehicle damage in motor insurance claims. They are using tools like GANs to add realistic scratches or dents to photos of damaged vehicles. Zurich reported a rise in the use of digital technology in false or misleading claims, including altered images and fabricated documents. | Motor Insurance Companies | Image | Insurance Business America |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Four people were arrested in Japan for selling obscene images created using generative AI. The images depicted naked adult women who do not exist in the real world. The suspects allegedly used free AI software to create the images and sold them online. | Naked adult women who do not exist in the real world | Image | The Japan Times |
| Apr 16, 2025 | AI-generated videos and images were created to mock Donald Trump's tariff policies amid US-China trade tensions. The videos depicted Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk working in a shoe factory. AI detection tools indicated a high likelihood of generative AI use in creating the visuals. | Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk | Video, Image | Rappler |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Jerome Dewald submitted a video featuring an AI-generated avatar to deliver an argument in court. | New York Supreme Court | Video | CBS News |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Kristi George and her daughter were victims of deepfake “revenge porn.” This exposed a loophole in current laws, prompting House Bill 2299 A, which aims to criminalize the distribution of AI-generated sexually explicit images. | Kristi George and her daughter | Image | FM News 101 KXL |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Cybercriminals are using AI-generated voices to impersonate tax professionals and IRS agents in tax-season scams. | Tax preparers and IRS agents | Audio | teiss |
| Apr 15, 2025 | A student from Fletcher High School created a fake pornographic image of Brooke Curry, daughter of former Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, using an AI generator and a photo from her Instagram account. The deepfake was circulated online, causing Brooke embarrassment and distress. She struggled to get it removed. This incident led to the introduction of 'Brooke's Law' in Florida, aimed at protecting Floridians from deepfake incidents and requiring platforms to remove such depictions upon the victim's request. | Brooke Curry | Image | News4JAX |
| Apr 15, 2025 | AI-generated parody videos depicting Americans working in sweatshop-like textile factories and iPhone assembly lines were created and spread on Chinese social media platforms to mock U.S. manufacturing and Donald Trump's trade war policies. The videos portrayed overweight American workers struggling with factory jobs, reinforcing stereotypes about global labor dynamics. | U.S. Manufacturing / Donald Trump | Video | Time Magazine |
| Apr 15, 2025 | AI voice clones of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were used to spoof messages at crosswalks in Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park. The messages were layered on top of the usual accessibility features of the crosswalk signals. 12 intersections in Palo Alto were affected, and the audio systems have been disabled while authorities investigate. | Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg | Audio | Digital Watch Observatory |
| Apr 15, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated showing Halimah Yacob making negative statements about the government. The video incorporated her voice. She stated the video was completely false and she had never made such a video. She has filed a police report. | Halimah Yacob | Video, Audio | CNA |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Four individuals in Japan were arrested for selling explicit posters featuring AI-generated images of women via online auctions. They used freely available AI software to generate explicit images and sold the posters as 'AI beauty'. They displayed censored images in online auctions but shipped uncensored versions to customers. | Women (images of women were generated) | Image | Kyodo News+ | Japan's leading news agency. |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Luke A. Teipel is charged with 33 felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated images. A search of his home led to the recovery of a cellphone containing 29 files of alleged artificially generated child sexual abuse material. | Children (Victims of child sexual abuse material) | Image | altoonamirror.com |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Fraudulent social media accounts are impersonating government officials using AI-generated images and video clips to spread misinformation. The posts present themselves as credible media sources to mislead the public. The public is urged to not click on any links. The government is working to identify the sources. | Premier, Cabinet Ministers, former Government Officials and Senior Government Executive Members of the Turks and Caicos Islands | Image, Video | TCI Sun |
| Apr 14, 2025 | The urban duo Charly & Johayron are being sued for using an AI-generated image of the late Cuban reggaeton artist El Taiger during their concert in Miami. The image was intended as a tribute, but the mothers of El Taiger's daughters claim the image was used without authorization, violating the artist's image rights. | El Taiger (posthumously) | Image | CiberCuba |
| Apr 14, 2025 | A person posing to be the company’s chief financial officer tricked the company’s finance director into sending the funds after reaching out to them through the messaging app WhatsApp and setting up a Zoom call conference with the scammers. The fraudsters relied on deepfake technology. The funds were retrieved after the finance director alerted the Singapore Police Force. | Singapore-based multinational corporation | Video, Audio | Biometric Update |
| Apr 14, 2025 | AI-generated video on Facebook impersonates Nigerian influencer Aproko Doctor and actor Taiwo Ajai-Lycett promoting a nonexistent hypertension cure. The voices sound machine-generated with unnatural pauses and are out of sync with mouth movements. | Taiwo Ajai-Lycett and Aproko Doctor | Video | Africa Check |
| Apr 14, 2025 | A deepfake video on Facebook showed Taiwo Ajai-Lycett promoting a nonexistent hypertension cure developed by Aproko Doctor. The video used AI to mimic their voices and appearances, claiming Ajai-Lycett recovered from hypertension using the product, and Aproko Doctor corroborated the story. There were signs of AI manipulation like unnatural pauses and out-of-sync speech. | Taiwo Ajai-Lycett and Aproko Doctor | Video | Africa Check |
| Apr 14, 2025 | AI-generated images of El Taiger were used without authorization during a concert of Charly y Johayron in Miami. The creator of the images, Mauriel López, claims it was an artistic tribute done without compensation, but legal action has been threatened due to the unauthorized use of the artist's image. | El Taiger | Image | CiberCuba |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Hackers are using AI-generated audio to impersonate tax preparers, accountants, or the IRS. They use stolen personal information to make the scam more believable. The goal is to trick victims into sharing sensitive financial information or sending funds to the attackers. | Taxpayers, Tax Preparers, IRS | Audio | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Cybercriminals are using AI-generated audio to impersonate tax preparers, accountants, or the IRS to trick taxpayers into sending them financial documents or to intercept funds. They use previously stolen personal information to lend credence to the scam. Attackers are replicating voices to deceive victims over the phone and are offering to help victims create IRS online accounts, prompting them to hand over sensitive financial information. | Taxpayers, tax preparers, accountants, IRS | Audio | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Apr 14, 2025 | A network of Facebook scam accounts is using increasingly political messaging to push a series of deepfake videos featuring Mark Carney, Elon Musk and Canadian network news anchors. The scam is promoted across dozens of Facebook advertisements, linking to fake news reports. | Mark Carney, Elon Musk | Video | The Logic |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Eight individuals were arrested in South Korea for creating and distributing deepfake videos of HYBE artists. The videos were sexually explicit. One individual suspected of creating deepfake videos of NewJeans members was handed over to prosecutors. | HYBE artists, specifically NewJeans | Video | CelebrityAccess |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Job candidates are using deepfake AI to hide their true appearance during video interviews. In one specific incident, a job candidate's screen glitched during an interview, revealing the deepfake. The candidate ignored a request to test the filter. A survey found that 17% of hiring managers have encountered candidates using deepfake technology. Another executive found about 100 fake identities in 827 applications for a software developer job. | Data security software company and other companies looking to hire people | Video | Yahoo |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Hacked crosswalk buttons in California played AI-generated voice clips mimicking Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Donald Trump. The clips contained fabricated content, including Musk pleading for friendship and Zuckerberg boasting about 'undermining democracy'. The voice features on the crosswalks were turned off while repairs were made. | Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Menlo Park | Audio | Benzinga |
| Apr 14, 2025 | AI-created videos mocking Americans working in factories and depicting Trump, Vance, and Musk making shoes in a sweatshop were circulated. The videos are meant to be derisive of the US as it attempts to restore manufacturing. | Americans, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk | Video | NewsRadio 740 KTRH |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Criminals cloned a CEO's voice from YouTube earnings call recordings and used it to trick a financial controller into transferring $200,000 for a fake acquisition. | A company's financial controller | Audio | Analytics Insight |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Deepfake videos targeting major candidates are spreading rapidly on social media, raising concerns the content could undermine the integrity of their campaigns. One viral video, viewed nearly 1.4 million times, shows Yoon appearing to pull off Han’s wig. Another depicts Lee in a detention cell. | Lee Jae-myung, Han Dong-hoon, Ahn Cheol-soo, Yoon | Video | The Korea Herald |
| Apr 14, 2025 | A short drama titled "Ni Qi" used AI to replace their original actor's face with Dilraba Dilmurat's face, causing fans to claim infringement. The platform manager stated they have initiated the process to delete scenes involving the actress' image. | Dilraba Dilmurat | Video | Yahoo Life Singapore |
| Apr 14, 2025 | An AI-generated voice clone of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi circulated during the Lok Sabha election 2024 campaign. | Rahul Gandhi | Audio | Mint |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Multiple deepfake videos of presidential candidates are circulating online ahead of the June 3 election. One video depicts former President Yoon Suk Yeol removing a wig from former People Power Party (PPP) leader Han Dong-hoon. Another video shows Lee Jae-myung inside a police detention cell. Other videos mock conservative figures such as Hong Joon-pyo, Kim Moon-soo, and Ahn Cheol-soo. During last year’s general election on April 10, 2024, the National Election Commission (NEC) detected 388 deepfake videos related to the election campaigns. These included AI-generated videos of a fake Yoon criticizing Lee, saying, “Are you only interested in dividing people when you say you care about the people’s livelihoods?” | Yoon Suk Yeol, Han Dong-hoon, Lee Jae-myung, Hong Joon-pyo, Kim Moon-soo, Ahn Cheol-soo | Video | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Apr 13, 2025 | Jerome Dewald, representing himself in an employment dispute, presented an AI-generated video of a male avatar in court. The judge, Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, was angered by the unannounced use of an AI avatar and reprimanded Dewald. Dewald claimed a medical condition prevented him from speaking directly and that he intended to use his startup's AI avatar technology (Pro Se Pro) but used a stock replica due to time constraints. | Judge Sallie Manzanet-Daniels and the court | Video | Futurism |
| Apr 13, 2025 | Jerome Dewald used an AI-generated video avatar in court as part of an employment dispute. The judge was not informed beforehand and reacted negatively. | Judge Sallie Manzanet-Daniels and the New York State Supreme Court | Video | Futurism |
| Apr 13, 2025 | CBC News tested ChatGPT's image generation capabilities and found that it was possible to create fake images of politicians like Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, and Narendra Modi, even though OpenAI has rules against manipulating images of real people without their consent. The chatbot suggested workarounds to evade restrictions. For example, CBC was able to generate fake images of Carney and Pollievre appearing in friendly scenarios with a criminal and controversial political figures. They were also able to create a fake image of Carney standing at a dais with a fake 'Carbon Tax 2026' sign behind him. | Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, Narendra Modi | Image | CBC |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Crosswalk buttons were hacked to play audio impersonating Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The audio contained various messages, some mocking the impersonated individuals and their companies. 12 intersections in Palo Alto were impacted. There were 4 hacked locations in Redwood City. A location near Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park was also impacted. | Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta | Audio | Palo Alto Online |
| Apr 12, 2025 | ChatGPT was used to generate images of public figures and celebrities as miniature dolls in line with the 'Barbiecore' aesthetic. The figures include titles, realistic packaging, and accessories reflecting the subject's personality or associations. Examples include Elon Musk's doll being paired with a Tesla and a SpaceX rocket, and Donald Trump's having cash and a golf club. | Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, Prince Harry, Nigel Farage, James Bond, Percy Pig, Mr. Bean, Walter White, Jules Winnfield, Del Boy, Serena Van Der Woodsen, Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Erling Haaland, Mo Salah, Harry Kane, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift | Image | Daily Mail |
| Apr 12, 2025 | AI-generated videos and memes depicting Donald Trump and Elon Musk working on a Nike sneaker production line, and JD Vance assembling an iPhone, are being used to mock Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports and the 'Make America Great Again' rhetoric. The videos portray a future where Americans are forced back to factory work due to increased production costs. | Donald Trump, JD Vance, US Economy | Video, Image | News18 |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Viral videos depicting AI-generated, overweight Americans working in sweatshops have emerged on TikTok and X, garnering millions of views. These clips satirize Trump's promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to America through tariffs on Chinese goods. One particular video, created by TikTok user Ben Lau, shows AI-generated Americans in factory conditions, accompanied by Chinese music and the slogan 'Make America Great Again.' | Donald Trump, overweight AI-generated Americans | Video | Decrypt |
| Apr 12, 2025 | AI-powered voice scams are on the rise in the Netherlands, with fraudsters using cloned voices to impersonate banks, tech support, and even family members. In just the first three months of 2025, nearly 10,000 scam calls were reported to the Fraud Help Desk. | Individuals in the Netherlands | Audio | Euro Weekly News |
| Apr 12, 2025 | AI-generated obscene images of students, some as young as 12 or 13, were created and circulated. The incident highlights the need for better digital safety measures in schools, as victims' initial reports to school authorities were not taken seriously. | 38 students in Johor, Malaysia | Image | Malay Mail |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Scammers are using AI voice cloning to impersonate trusted institutions, fueling a dramatic spike in fraudulent phone calls across the Netherlands. In 2024, victims of bank helpdesk fraud lost an average of 21,500 euros per case. | Thousands of people in the Netherlands | Audio | NL Times |
| Apr 12, 2025 | AI-generated summaries of Graydon Carter's memoir with deepfake covers are being sold on Amazon. | Graydon Carter | Image | Air Mail |
| Apr 12, 2025 | A 16-year-old boy in Johor Bahru was arrested for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI) to create pornographic images of his schoolmates and school alumni. Eight reports were lodged against the student. The case is being investigated under Section 292 of the Penal Code for the sale, distribution, or circulation of obscene materials and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act for sharing offensive and inappropriate content. | schoolmates and school alumni | Image | Yahoo |
| Apr 11, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting Barron Trump singing and playing guitar have been circulating online, misleading viewers into believing they are authentic. The videos, often featuring country or Christian music, are created by accounts like ViVO tunes and GroovyBeat, who include disclaimers acknowledging the AI origin. Despite the disclaimers, many viewers believe the videos are real and praise Barron's supposed musical talents and faith. | Barron Trump | Video | HOLA |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Jerome Dewald used an AI avatar created by Tavus to present a legal argument in court due to a medical condition. The court ordered the video shut down mid-hearing because they were not informed beforehand that the presenter was an AI. Dewald stated that his intent wasn't to fool the court, but to present his argument better. | New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department | Video | The Drum |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Jerome Dewald used an AI-generated avatar named James in a New York courtroom to argue his civil appeals case. The judges rejected it, finding that he had not disclosed that the video was not a real person. | New York Court System | Video | Business Insider |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Multiple arrests have been made in South Korea related to the creation and distribution of sexually explicit AI deepfakes of Hybe artists. Hybe cooperated with the police by providing information to identify suspects. Eight individuals were arrested for Hybe-related deepfakes, six of whom were taken into custody. A total of 23 people were involved, with 13 taken into custody overall. Ador indicated that a suspect accused of making and distributing “false videos exploiting artists” had already been “indicted and referred to the prosecution while in custody | Hybe artists (specifically, likely BTS) | Video | Digital Music News |
| Apr 11, 2025 | An AI-generated image caused Katy Perry's mom to believe she had attended the Met Gala. | Katy Perry | Image | Movieguide |
| Apr 11, 2025 | AI-generated images and videos of Donald Trump and Elon Musk working in a Nike factory, and JD Vance assembling an iPhone are being circulated by Chinese media and government officials to mock the 'Make America Great Again' slogan and protest against US tariffs. Also, a music video titled “Look What You Taxed Us Through” was posted by CGTN. | Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance, United States | Image, Video | New York Post |
| Apr 11, 2025 | AI-generated posts and videos depicting Trump and Elon Musk working in a Nike factory, mocking Trump's MAGA slogan, and criticizing US tariffs. Includes AI-produced posts from a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman and memes mocking tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands. A music video of an AI-produced song "Look What You Taxed Us Through" was also created. These were shared across TikTok, X and other platforms. | Donald Trump, US | Image, Video | New York Post |
| Apr 11, 2025 | An AI-generated video shows Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance working in a factory making trainers. The video went viral amid trade tensions between China and the US. | Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance | Video | LADbible |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Eight individuals were arrested in South Korea for creating and distributing deepfake videos of HYBE MUSIC GROUP artists. Six of the suspects were detained for creating Telegram chats to produce and distribute the deepfake videos. HYBE cooperated with the NGPPA (Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency) in the investigation, and fans also reported information through HYBE's Artist Rights Violation Report Center. | HYBE MUSIC GROUP artists | Video | Music Business Worldwide |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Chinese accounts are using AI-generated content to ridicule Donald Trump's tariff policies. Videos on TikTok and Douyin depict Trump and JD Vance in sweatshops making MAGA hats. Other content shows Trump fleeing the White House amid destruction. CGTN published an AI-generated song criticizing the tariffs. | Donald Trump and JD Vance | Video, Image, Audio | Daily Mail |
| Apr 11, 2025 | AI-generated videos are being created that depict Trump-world figures in fictional scenarios where they overcome challenges. These videos are published on YouTube by accounts like Elite Stories and Mr. Robe Stories. The videos often feature AI-generated narrators and are designed to enrage and soothe audiences. Specific examples include a video about a judge demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi remove a cross necklace and another about Karoline Leavitt being fined by a judge for wearing her cross necklace. These videos can attract a lot of views and supportive comments from users who may not realize they are fake. | Karoline Leavitt, Barron Trump, Pam Bondi | Video | Mother Jones |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Reports of deepfake-related digital sex crimes in South Korea more than tripled in 2024. The Digital Sex Crime Victim Support Centre received 1,384 reports of manipulated images used in digital sex crimes last year, a sharp increase from 423 reports in 2023. Young perpetrators sometimes use photos of people they know, such as friends or teachers. | Young people, particularly those in their teens or twenties, and sometimes friends or teachers. | Image | South China Morning Post |
| Apr 11, 2025 | More than 100 people were arrested for creating and distributing deepfake pornography featuring female K-pop idols, actors, internet streamers, and classmates. Some also used deep voice technology to manipulate celebrities' voices. The deepfakes were distributed through Telegram chat rooms. | K-pop idols, actors, internet streamers, classmates | Video, Audio | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Apr 11, 2025 | AI-generated videos depicting US leaders and American factory workers in a satirical light are circulating on social media, particularly on platforms like X and TikTok. These videos portray Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk as factory workers, and depict American factory workers as obese and dull-witted. The videos seem to be mocking the White House's efforts to rejuvenate American manufacturing and also demean factory laborers. | Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, American Factory Workers | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Apr 10, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicts stereotypical American workers looking dejected in a factory, along with AI depictions of Trump and Musk laboring in a factory. The video satirizes Trump's 're-industrialization' efforts and US-China trade relations. | US workers, Donald Trump, Elon Musk | Video | India Today |
| Apr 10, 2025 | SAG-AFTRA is supporting the NO FAKES act to protect against unauthorized use of digital replicas. The bill would establish a federal right in voice and likeness to protect against unauthorized use of digital replicas. Activision Blizzard used generative AI to test interest in games that never existed. Serene Questworks allegedly replaced its voice cast with generative AI. Sony made use of the technology to turn Horizon series’ protagonist Aloy into an unsettling digital animatronic. | Actors, Recording Artists, Broadcasters, High School Students | Image, Audio | Game Developer |
| Apr 10, 2025 | A deepfake video of Kim Kardashian was uploaded to Roblox, which could be accessed by children playing the game. | Kim Kardashian | Video | gameranx.com |
| Apr 10, 2025 | A public service ad featuring deepfake versions of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks surfaced, warning against election disinformation. | Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks | Video | Cointelegraph |
| Apr 10, 2025 | An AI-generated video mocking the prospect of Americans working factory jobs during Donald Trump's presidency. The video portrays overweight 'Americans' laboring in sweatshop-like conditions, accompanied by Chinese music. The origin of the clip is not clear but it was published on Chinese TikTok accounts and intended to criticize the Trump administration’s pledge to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs through tariffs. | Donald Trump's Administration | Video | The Economic Times |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Jerome Dewald used an AI-generated avatar from Tavus in a legal appeal without informing the court. Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels rebuked him for misleading the court. The AI avatar presented Dewald's oral argument, but the courtroom was unaware that the video contents were artificially generated. | New York Court, Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels | Video | The Verge |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Jerome Dewald attempted to use an AI-generated avatar named Jim from Tavus to present oral arguments in an employment dispute hearing without informing the court. Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels rebuked him for misleading the court and for attempting to use the courtroom as a launchpad for his business. | New York Court System | Video | The Verge |
| Apr 10, 2025 | A fake nude image of Brooke Curry was created using AI and circulated online. The perpetrator obtained her photo from her Instagram account and altered it to depict her as fully nude. Platforms were reluctant to remove the image. | Brooke Curry | Image | News4JAX |
| Apr 10, 2025 | AI-generated videos and images mocking Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance as factory workers, and depicting MAGA hats with inflated prices to criticize the US Manufacturing Revival Plan and the impact of tariffs on US consumers. Chinese accounts promoted the videos and images. A music video titled 'Look What You Taxed Us Through (An AI-Generated Song. A Life-Choking Reality)' was also published. Another AI-generated video shared on TikTok portrayed Americans making phones in factories. | Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance, US Manufacturing Revival Plan, US Consumers | Video, Image | Daily Mail |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Chinese accounts and media used AI-generated videos and songs to mock Donald Trump's tariffs and their impact on American consumers. This included depictions of obese factory workers and memes about the tariffs' effects. | Donald Trump and American Consumers | Video, Audio | Daily Mail |
| Apr 10, 2025 | A group of male students created a 'humiliation room' on Telegram where they superimposed the faces of female students onto nude bodies using deepfake techniques and distributed the content. The article also discusses the general rise in deepfake pornography targeting women and children in South Korea. | Female students at a university in Incheon, South Korea; women and children in South Korea in general | Image | Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Apr 10, 2025 | An AI-generated video mocking American workers in a post-tariffs world was circulated on Chinese and U.S. social media. The video depicts overweight and depressed workers in a textiles factory, stitching clothing, and ends with Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan. | Donald Trump and American workers | Video | The Independent |
| Apr 10, 2025 | An employee was baited in a group video conference where deepfake replicas of key company figures, notably the CFO, interacted seamlessly, leading to a $25.6 million loss. | Hong Kong-based multinational company | Video, Audio | The Economic Times |
| Apr 09, 2025 | An AI-generated video mocking President Trump's tariff war has gone viral. The 30-second clip depicts depressed-looking, overweight Americans working in factories, making clothes and smartphones. It ends with the caption "make America great again" and features Chinese music. | Donald Trump | Video | The Times |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Jerome Dewald, a plaintiff, attempted to use an AI-generated avatar to present his argument in court without informing the judges. The video featured an AI-created person who didn't exist and was used to speak in his place. A judge interrupted the presentation and shut it down due to being misled. | New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division's First Judicial Department | Video | Entrepreneur |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Steve received a video call from someone impersonating his manager, Bela, requesting a confidential client report to be sent to a new email address. The deepfake was convincing enough that Steve complied, only to later find out Bela had not made the call. | Steve | Video | University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Deepfake nudes of teen girls were created. This incident is mentioned in the context of support for the Take It Down Act, which aims to combat the spread of explicit AI-generated images. | Teen girls | Image | Ars Technica |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Viral video depicting deepfakes of David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld and Scarlett Johansson deploring Kanye West for his stream of antisemitic comments. | David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld and Scarlett Johansson, Kanye West | Video | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Apr 09, 2025 | The article describes several instances of deepfakes. An AI generated song called "Heart On My Sleeve" used the unauthorized AI voices of Drake and The Weeknd. Taylor Swift was the subject of sexually explicit AI deepfakes. Drake deepfaked Tupac Shakur's voice in a diss track. Donald Trump posted an unauthorized AI image of Swift endorsing him. | Drake, The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Tupac Shakur | Audio, Image | Billboard |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Fraudsters impersonated the Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to solicit money from wealthy entrepreneurs. Attackers impersonated an employee to gain access to the MGM Resorts systems, leading to a large data breach. | Wealthy entrepreneurs in Italy, MGM Resorts | Audio | BleepingComputer |
| Apr 09, 2025 | A Chinese TikToker published an AI-generated video mocking Americans amid trade tensions. The video depicts obese Americans in sweatshop-style factories with Chinese music, seemingly a swipe at Donald Trump's efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. The video includes Trump's campaign slogan. | Americans, Donald Trump | Video | lbc.co.uk |
| Apr 09, 2025 | An AI-generated video mocking the idea of Americans working in factories, depicting them as depressed, obese, and dull-witted in sweatshop-like environments. The video was shared on TikTok and X, generating millions of views and sparking controversy. | Trump administration's tariff agenda and American factory workers | Video | New York Post |
| Apr 09, 2025 | Jerome Dewald, founder of Pro Se Pro, attempted to use an AI-generated avatar named Jim to argue his employment dispute case in court. He used Tavus AI to create this avatar. The judge panel stopped the presentation because he did not disclose it was an AI generated avatar. | Judge Panel | Video | theregister.com |
| Apr 08, 2025 | Tesla, allegedly in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery, used an AI image generator to create promotional materials for its robotaxi event that resembled stills from Blade Runner 2049. Alcon Entertainment, the production company for Blade Runner 2049, filed a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and trademark violations. | Alcon Entertainment (Blade Runner 2049) | Image | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Apr 08, 2025 | AI-generated video posted on Chinese social media depicts average Americans working in a dingy garment factory to mock Trump's reindustrialization plan. The video includes AI-generated memes showing scenarios like a finance bro weeping over a garment machine with Trump's portrait in the background. | American workers and Trump's reindustrialization plan | Video | Futurism |
| Apr 08, 2025 | Plaintiff Jerome Dewald attempted to use an AI-generated avatar as his legal representative in a New York courtroom. The avatar was presented via video. The judge shut down the attempt, citing being misled and preventing the courtroom from being used to launch a business. | New York Court System | Video | FOX 5 New York |
| Apr 07, 2025 | A data leak at South Korean AI company GenNomis exposed 95,000 files, including explicit and potentially illegal content generated by users of their AI tool. This included deepfakes and what appeared to be child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The unprotected database revealed the prompts users had been using to generate these images. | Users of GenNomis AI tool | Image | Tom's Guide |
| Apr 07, 2025 | A boy used AI to generate a fake nude image of Brooke Curry from her Instagram photo and posted it on his Snapchat story. | Brooke Curry | Image | Florida Politics |
| Apr 05, 2025 | China's state-run media used AI-generated videos featuring robots and consumers to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump and tariffs, highlighting the potential for high inflation and economic distress for Americans. One video shows a robot self-destructing rather than implementing high tariffs, and another features an automated voice singing about the negative impacts of tariffs on the American Midwest. | Donald Trump and U.S. Tariffs | Video | Reuters |
| Apr 03, 2025 | Jace Edgar received a phone call where the voice of his sister, Jayla, was cloned using AI to make it sound like she was in distress and needed help after being in an accident. The scammer called him by name and referred to him as brother. Edgar became suspicious and contacted his sister, discovering she was unharmed and unaware of the situation. The scammer called back but Edgar warned them that the police were on their way. | Jace Edgar and his sister Jayla | Audio | 12newsnow.com |
| Apr 03, 2025 | AI voice cloning scam via phone call | Port Neches man | Audio | 12newsnow.com |
| Apr 03, 2025 | Francesca Mani, a Westfield High School student, was the victim of a deepfake video two years ago. The perpetrator only received a short suspension because there were no laws against such media at the time. This incident led to the creation of new legislation in New Jersey making the creation and dissemination of deceptive deepfake media a crime. | Francesca Mani | Video | ABC News |
| Apr 01, 2025 | A Jacksonville teenager was victimized by a deepfake and struggled to have it removed. This spurred the creation of Florida Senate Bill 1400, also known as "Brooke's Law", which mandates internet platforms remove such deepfakes within 48 hours of notification. | Jacksonville teenager | Image, Video | Florida Politics |
| Apr 01, 2025 | A 61-year-old man, Darrell Devenny, was arrested for creating deepfake images of a child he had sexually abused. The deepfake image was created from a real image of the child taken in public and digitally altered to appear pornographic. He also possessed other explicit images and videos of children. | A minor child | Image, Video | NOLA.com |
| Apr 01, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely claiming to show the aftermath of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on March 28, 2024 circulated on social media. The video, created using AI tools such as Runway and MINIMAX Hailuo AI, showed damaged roads, buildings, and a fire. Inconsistencies in the video, such as stationary people amidst moving fire, and discrepancies with actual footage from the ground, exposed it as a deepfake. The false narrative spread across multiple countries. | Myanmar earthquake victims and public perception of the disaster | Video | Yahoo |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Deepfake technology was used to create non-consensual nude images of children in Malta and Spain. In Malta, at least four cases involved girls having their faces superimposed onto naked bodies or digitally undressed using AI-powered apps. The images were shared via messaging apps to humiliate victims or used for blackmail. In Spain, over 20 teenage girls had their photos manipulated by classmates. The youngest victim in Malta was 12 years old. | Children as young as 12 in Malta and Spain | Image | Times of Malta |
| Apr 01, 2025 | 93,485 AI-generated images, many of which were sexually explicit and depicted children and celebrities portrayed as children, were found in a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket linked to the South Korean AI company AI-NOMIS and its app GenNomis. Following a security researcher's report, the website and the S3 bucket were taken down. | children and celebrities portrayed as children | Image | theregister.com |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Cybercriminals in Vietnam used deepfake technology to create realistic fake videos of victims and used them for extortion. Victims were threatened with the release of these videos unless they paid a ransom. In one incident, a criminal organization blackmailed entrepreneurs and celebrities, demanding hundreds of millions of đồng. Another incident involved a high school girl who was blackmailed for VNĐ50 million ($2,000). | Entrepreneurs, celebrities, high school girl | Video | vietnamnews.vn |
| Mar 31, 2025 | In January 2024, tens of thousands of Democratic voters received a robocall featuring an AI-generated voice impersonating President Biden, urging them not to vote in the New Hampshire primaries. This incident, orchestrated by Steven Kramer and Paul Carpenter (who used ElevenLabs), led to Kramer's $6 million fine and charges for impersonating a candidate and voter suppression, and a $1 million fine for Lingo Telecom. | Democratic voters in New Hampshire | Audio | Nature |
| Mar 31, 2025 | AI-generated sexually explicit videos were created and used to extort money from Smith's fans. Her employer offered no help, citing a lack of legal recourse. | Nashville meteorologist Bree Smith | Video | The Tennessean |
| Mar 31, 2025 | An unsecured database containing 93,485 AI-generated nude images, many of which were deepfakes of celebrities and potentially other individuals, was discovered. The images were created using a "nudify" app from South Korean AI company GenNomis. The database also contained text files detailing the commands used to generate each image. The database and GenNomis' websites were taken offline after the discovery. | Multiple celebrities and potentially other individuals | Image | The Daily Dot |
| Mar 31, 2025 | A multinational company lost $25 million due to a deepfake video conference call combined with social engineering tactics. A French woman was scammed out of €830,000 by a scammer posing as Brad Pitt using AI-generated images. | Multinational company, French woman | Video, Image | Help Net Security |
| Mar 31, 2025 | An AI-generated objectionable video featuring Muskan Rastogi and police officer Ramakant Pachauri went viral. Police confirmed the video's AI origin and malicious intent. An FIR was filed against the uploader. Similar videos allegedly featuring Muskan and co-accused Sahil Shukla also surfaced. | Ramakant Pachauri | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Mar 30, 2025 | A deepfake advertisement featuring Australian media personality Eddie McGuire promoting a fraudulent investment opportunity appeared on YouTube. The ad used footage from a legitimate television appearance, manipulated with a voiceover impersonating McGuire. Inconsistencies in lip syncing and a wavering accent gave the deepfake away. YouTube removed the video for violating its policy against scams using false endorsements. Other celebrities have also been targeted by similar scams. | Eddie McGuire | Video, Audio | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Mar 30, 2025 | A deepfake video of Eddie McGuire promoting a fraudulent financial scheme was posted on YouTube. The video used AI to mimic McGuire's voice with an American accent, promising daily earnings of $1000. The scammers appear to have used footage of McGuire from the *Today* show. Similar scams have targeted other Australian celebrities. | Eddie McGuire | Audio, Video | Daily Mail |
| Mar 29, 2025 | A six-second deepfake video showing people clinging to a sinking ship went viral in March 2025, garnering over 11 million views. The video, originally watermarked "Daryka," was cropped to remove the AI label. The deepfake resembled real tragedies, such as the June 2023 sinking of a fishing vessel. | general public | Video | Snopes |
| Mar 28, 2025 | In 2024, male classmates created and shared AI-generated, pornographic images of female students. The deepfakes caused significant harm. | Female students in over half a dozen schools nationwide | Image | Education Week |
| Mar 28, 2025 | A deepfake audio clip falsely depicted JD Vance criticizing Elon Musk. The audio was widely shared on platforms like TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), garnering millions of views. AI detection tools confirmed the audio's inauthenticity. Vance himself denounced it as fake. Several online sources initially shared the audio without verifying its authenticity. | JD Vance | Audio | NewsGuard's Reality Check |
| Mar 28, 2025 | A survey of US schools showed that 15% of students and 11% of teachers heard about deepfake non-consensual intimate images (NCII) of individuals associated with their school during the 2023-2024 school year. Incidents have been reported across the US. Students created fake nude images using 'nudify' apps or websites and spread them widely; in some cases targeting dozens of victims at once, generating deepfake images of up to 46 teen girls. The true scope is likely far greater than reported. | students and teachers in US schools | Image | Tech Policy Press |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Explicit deepfake videos of Christina Trevanion, a BBC antiques show presenter, were created and circulated online without her permission. She discovered the videos in March 2023, after they had been circulating since September 2022. | Christina Trevanion | Video | HELLO! |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Hema Malini and Vidya Balan have been targeted by deepfakes. AI-generated videos featuring them have been created and spread, causing reputational damage and mental distress. The specifics of the deepfakes and their content are not detailed in the provided text. | Hema Malini and Vidya Balan | Video | The Indian Express |
| Mar 28, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos of actress Shruthi Narayanan were circulated on social media. Narayanan reported significant distress caused by the videos and noted the criminal offense of sharing leaked videos in India, regardless of authenticity. | Shruthi Narayanan | Video | Firstpost |
| Mar 28, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely claiming that Donald Trump criticized Pakistan's treatment of Christians and threatened to relocate all Christian families from the country was viewed over a million times on social media. The video was created using AI and falsely claimed to have aired on BBC News. Analysis revealed inconsistencies in facial expressions, voice, and tone, confirming its fake nature. | Donald Trump | Video | Geo News |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Videos implied to be AI-generated deepfakes of Tamil TV actor Shruthi Narayanan were shared online, causing her emotional distress. Another actor, Shruti Narayanan, clarified she was not involved. | Shruthi Narayanan | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Mar 27, 2025 | American live streamer Johnny Somali (Ramsey Khalid Ismael) was charged with violating South Korea's Special Act on Sexual Violence Crimes due to an AI-generated deepfake video depicting popular Korean streamer BongBong in fabricated intimate scenes with Somali. This charge carries a mandatory prison sentence of up to seven years. | BongBong | Video | Yahoo News |
| Mar 27, 2025 | AI deepfake video depicting Korean streamer BongBong in a fabricated intimate scene with Johnny Somali (Ramsey Khalid Ismael) was created and distributed for profit, violating South Korea’s Special Act on Sexual Violence Crimes. | BongBong | Video | The Express Tribune |
| Mar 27, 2025 | False YouTube videos claimed that Kenneth Copeland collapsed in a courtroom after receiving a life imprisonment sentence. These videos used AI-generated editing, voice narration, and scripting. One video, published by "The Goateus" on March 2nd, garnered over 190,000 views and featured a doctored image suggesting CNN reported on the event. Another video, published by "niwra" on March 24th, claimed Copeland was sentenced to life imprisonment and garnered around 250,000 views. No credible news sources corroborate these claims. | Kenneth Copeland | Image, Video | Snopes.com |
| Mar 27, 2025 | A teacher, Wilson Frederick Jones, used AI to generate sexually explicit videos of eight students. The videos were discovered by the school's Bark application on November 19, 2024, leading to Jones's arrest and charges of production and possession of morphed images of child pornography. The incident was not reported to authorities until January 29, 2025, causing outrage and leading to the termination of the school superintendent. | eight Corinth Middle School students (ages 14-16) | Video | Mississippi Free Press |
| Mar 27, 2025 | A private video of actress Shruthi Narayanan was leaked online and spread rapidly on social media. She hinted on her Instagram story that the video was AI-generated. | Shruthi Narayanan | Video | TOI Etimes |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Robocalls used a deepfake of President Biden's voice to discourage voters in the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. A lawsuit against Voice Broadcasting Corp. and Life Corp. by the League of Women Voters was allowed to proceed. | Voters in the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary | Audio | Bloomberg Law |
| Mar 27, 2025 | A deepfake video of Al Roker promoting a hypertension solution and falsely claiming he suffered two heart attacks circulated on Facebook. The video was removed by Meta, and Roker denied the claims. | Al Roker | Video | WHTC |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Male classmates created deepfake pornographic images of Francesca Mani and her classmates. A police report was filed, but no charges were filed due to a lack of relevant laws in New Jersey. | Francesca Mani and her classmates | Image, Video | The Ramapo News |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Doctored images and semi-nude deepfake videos of former TV meteorologist Bree Smith appeared online. Fake Facebook accounts were used. The deepfakes were used to extort money from her viewers. The incident caused Smith significant emotional harm, impacting her career. She testified before the Tennessee House of Representatives in support of the Preventing Deep Fake Images Act, a bill that would make distributing intimate deepfakes with malicious intent a felony in Tennessee. | Bree Smith | Image, Video | Daily Mail |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Deepfake images showing meteorologist Bree Smith's face on semi-nude bodies were used to create hundreds of fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram. These accounts offered exclusive content in exchange for money or personal information. | Bree Smith | Image | WSMV 4 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Deepfake accounts on Facebook used Bree Smith's face on semi-nude bodies to trick people into sending money and personal information. Perpetrators remain unknown. | Bree Smith | Image, Video | WZTV |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Sexually explicit AI-generated images and videos of former NewsChannel 5 meteorologist Bree Smith were used for extortion. Despite being reported to police and social media platforms, the content could not be removed. The perpetrators used the deepfakes to solicit money from Smith's fans. | Bree Smith | Image, Video | Tennessean |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Fake social media accounts used Bree Smith's image in semi-nude photos and sexually explicit AI-generated videos to scam her fans. Fake videos promised sexual acts and requested money for a hotel stay. | Bree Smith | Image, Video | Tennessean |
| Mar 26, 2025 | A teenager named Brooke was targeted with deepfake pornography. This led to the creation of "Brooke's Law", a bill that revises Florida’s deepfake law to require platforms to remove altered sexual depictions upon a victim's request. | Brooke (a teenager) | Image, Video | Florida Politics |
| Mar 26, 2025 | A deepfake video of Al Roker selling a blood pressure device was created and circulated online, likely to scam consumers into purchasing the device. | Al Roker | Video | TODAY |
| Mar 26, 2025 | A family friend used pictures from Lucy Adams's personal Instagram page to create deepfake pornographic content. | Lucy Adams | Video, Image | ABC News |
| Mar 25, 2025 | A deepfake Zoom call resulted in fraudulent transfers of $25 million from Arup's Hong Kong office. Cybercriminals impersonated executives to conduct financial fraud. | Arup executives | Video, Audio | Biometric Update |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Elon Musk promoting cryptocurrency investments are circulating online. The North Bay Police Service issued a warning about associated scams. | general public via association with Elon Musk | Video | CTV News |
| Mar 25, 2025 | An AI-generated video and still image falsely depicted European leaders removing their jackets in solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The video, initially shared on Bluesky and later deleted, showed implausible movements and artifacts such as the disappearance of Giorgia Meloni's face. Professor Hany Farid confirmed the AI-generation of the video. | European leaders (Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni) | Video, Image | Full Fact |
| Mar 25, 2025 | A viral audio clip of Vice President JD Vance seemingly criticizing Elon Musk was deemed likely a deepfake by AI experts, including Manjeet Rege. The evidence cited includes a low authenticity score from a deepfake detector and questionable origins (a TikTok video misspelling Vance's name). | Vice President JD Vance | Audio | University of St. Thomas Newsroom |
| Mar 25, 2025 | WWE used AI-generated video for a new character, El Grande Americano, which contained distortions such as extra fingers and used the inaccurate term ‘Gulf of America’ instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ This caused criticism among fans from Mexico and Latin America and sparked broader debate on AI use in media. | WWE and its fans | Video | Inside The Ropes |
| Mar 25, 2025 | A 14-year-old high school student, Elliston Berry, was the victim of a deepfake attack in October 2023 when a classmate used AI to create nude images of her and circulated them around school. The images were created by photoshopping a nude body onto Berry's photos from Instagram. The incident deeply affected Berry's mental health. The male student who created the deepfakes also targeted seven other girls. The incident occurred off school property, hindering the initial response. Three of the girls transferred schools. Berry's parents struggled for months to get Snapchat to remove the images, only succeeding after contacting Senator Ted Cruz's office. | Elliston Berry | Image | USA TODAY |
| Mar 25, 2025 | A video showing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut hugging is viral. A reverse image search on keyframes revealed the same image in a post by Yogi Adityanath's office on October 1, 2021, showing them posing for a photograph during Ranaut's visit to the CM's residence in Lucknow. An Aaj Tak news report from October 2, 2021, also showed them together, without any altered visuals of a hug. Conclusion: The viral video of Ranaut hugging Adityanath is altered. | Yogi Adityanath and Kangana Ranaut | Video | The Quint |
| Mar 24, 2025 | AI-generated audio of Vice President JD Vance criticizing Elon Musk circulated on social media, garnering over 2 million views before being confirmed as fake by Vance's communications director and Reality Defender, a deepfake detection firm. The audio, initially on TikTok, included added background noise to mask its synthetic origin. | JD Vance | Audio | 404 Media |
| Mar 24, 2025 | A video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemingly praying in traditional Muslim attire was found to be AI-generated. Inconsistencies in the video, such as distortions in hand movements and unnatural beard growth, were noted. AI detection websites and an AI expert confirmed its AI origin. The video was posted on Instagram by an account with 1116 followers. | Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Video | Vishvas News English |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Multiple voice actors have had their voices cloned and used without their consent or compensation. Nick Meyer's voice was used to create numerous online personas. Joe Gaudet was replaced by his own AI clone. Susan Bennett's voice (Siri) and Bev Standing's voice (TikTok) were used without their knowledge or consent. The incidents highlight the challenges of regulating AI-generated content and the lack of legal protection for voice actors. | Voice actors (Nick Meyer, Joe Gaudet, Susan Bennett, Bev Standing) | Audio | Los Angeles Times |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Scammers use AI to clone voices from recorded conversations or voicemails, then impersonate individuals to deceive victims. A specific case is mentioned where a man's voice was recorded for five days under the pretense of a work-from-home job. | Individuals and businesses | Audio | WBBJ TV |
| Mar 21, 2025 | A deepfake video advertisement on Facebook, seemingly featuring Michael Hewson, a financial analyst, promoted a WhatsApp investment group promising high returns. AI was used to clone his voice and manipulate his words, although real images of Hewson were used. This followed a previous Times investigation into a rise in deepfake impersonations of FTSE chief executives in investment fraud. | Michael Hewson | Video, Audio | The Times |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Their photos were stolen from social media, manipulated into deepfakes, and shared on a pornography site without their consent. | Numerous young women in small-town America | Image, Video | RNZ |
| Mar 21, 2025 | A pregame hype video created by the Dallas Mavericks used AI to generate facsimiles of players, including Anthony Davis. In one scene, Davis appeared to point a gun at his head. The video was described as "uncanny and haunting" and "nightmarish". The Mavericks organization did not respond to inquiries about the video. | Anthony Davis | Video | Defector |
| Mar 21, 2025 | A deepfake audio clip of Donald Trump falsely announcing the renaming of Washington, D.C., to "District of America" circulated widely on social media. The clip was confirmed as AI-generated by digital forensics experts. It originated from a now-deleted TikTok account (@whmole), which appears to have created other fake Trump audio clips. The audio was shared by both pro and anti-Trump users, garnering millions of views. | Donald Trump | Audio | NewsGuard's Reality Check |
| Mar 21, 2025 | A deepfake video of Anant Ambani promoting a fake gaming app, 'Avi by Ambani', circulated online. Analysis revealed AI-generated audio and manipulation of existing footage. The video included a Business Today watermark and promoted a suspicious website mimicking Google Play. A similar deepfake promoting a different app was debunked previously. | Anant Ambani | Video, Audio | Newschecker |
| Mar 21, 2025 | An employee of the engineering firm Arup was duped into transferring $25 million to scammers using a deepfake of his boss's voice. | Employee of Arup | Audio | Forbes |
| Mar 20, 2025 | A former Mississippi middle school teacher, Wilson Jones (30), is facing federal charges for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse videos of his students. He resigned from Corinth Middle School last fall after the videos were discovered. Investigators have identified at least eight underage victims. School officials were alerted to inappropriate content on Jones' computer in November by a security application. They reported this to the Mississippi Department of Education in January, leading to an investigation by police and the FBI. Jones was arrested on March 12th and charged with production and possession of morphed images of child sexual abuse. He was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond with GPS monitoring. | students of Corinth Middle School | Video, Image | Newsday |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Ongoing deepfake attacks are targeting smartphone users with convincing voice cloning. These attacks involve AI-generated audio impersonating family members to extort money by simulating emergencies. The FBI and cybersecurity experts have issued warnings. | smartphone users | Audio | Forbes |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Marilyn Crawford received a call from someone impersonating her grandson, Ian, claiming to be in trouble with the police and needing $9,000 for release. It is suspected that the scammers used AI voice cloning to replicate Ian's voice. | Marilyn Crawford | Audio | CBC |
| Mar 20, 2025 | An elderly woman was targeted by a deepfake voice impersonating her son to extort money. An employee of a multinational firm was tricked into wiring HK$200 million (US$26 million) after a video conference with AI avatars impersonating colleagues. | elderly woman; employee of a multinational firm | Audio, Video | The Economic Times |
| Mar 19, 2025 | A Texas DPS sergeant, Preston Wade Pietrzykowski, was arrested for possession and promotion of child pornography, some of which were deepfakes. The hard drive also contained deepfakes of female DPS employees' faces superimposed onto sexually explicit images. | multiple female DPS employees | Image, Video | MyRGV |
| Mar 19, 2025 | A group of boys created and shared deepfake pornographic images of their female classmates at Westfield High School in 2023. This prompted advocacy from victims and calls for legislation to combat deepfake pornography. | female classmates at Westfield High School | Image, Video | Government Technology |
| Mar 18, 2025 | A deepfake video depicts Donald Trump criticizing Volodymyr Zelenskyy's attire and assigning him the nickname "Temu Zelenskiy." The video, created by a parody account named DangerousAI, uses AI-generated voiceovers and original scripts. While a disclaimer clarifies the video's fictional nature, some Facebook users mistook it for authentic. The deepfake incorporates references to a real Oval Office meeting. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump | Video, Audio | Oz Arab Media |
| Mar 18, 2025 | The San Francisco City Attorney's Office shut down nearly a dozen websites distributing AI-generated deepfake nudes. The sites had hundreds of millions of hits annually. The legal action leveraged California's Unfair Competition Law. | Unspecified individuals whose faces were used in deepfake nudes | Image | NBC Bay Area |
| Mar 18, 2025 | A middle school teacher, Wilson Jones, used AI software to generate pornographic videos of students. The videos depicted eight students aged 14-16 in sexually explicit situations. The images were taken from the students' social media accounts without their consent. Jones was charged with production and possession of morphed images of child pornography. The superintendent, Lee Childress, was fired for failing to report the incident immediately. | Corinth Middle School students | Video | FOX13 Memphis |
| Mar 17, 2025 | An AI-generated image falsely depicting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is circulating on social media. The image first appeared online in January 2025 and gained traction after Carney won the Liberal Party leadership. The image shows clear signs of digital manipulation. | Mark Carney | Image | NewsGuard's Reality Check |
| Mar 17, 2025 | In mid-February 2025, Scarlett Johansson publicly denounced a viral deepfake video appearing to show her and other celebrities condemning antisemitism. She urged US officials for protective legislation. Taylor Swift also reportedly considered legal action after explicit deepfake images circulated. | Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift | Video, Image | Mondaq News Alerts |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, and Brad Pitt have been targeted by deepfakes. Radio personality Steve Harvey was also targeted by scammers using AI-generated versions of himself to carry out scams. The increasing number of deepfakes has prompted calls for legislation to penalize those responsible and the platforms that host them. | Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Steve Harvey | Image, Video, Audio | AS USA |
| Mar 15, 2025 | A deepfake video of Antonio Brown's return to the Pittsburg Steelers alongside Aaron Rodgers was posted on social media by Antonio Brown. The video is not real and is an attempt by Brown to generate attention. | Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL | Video | Newsweek |
| Mar 15, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting various political figures in unusual scenarios (e.g., Warren and Pelosi in MAGA hats, Trump hugging Obama). Shared on Bluesky by Mark Cuban, prompting controversy due to its political implications and low quality. | Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk | Video, Image | Gizmodo |
| Mar 14, 2025 | A former Mississippi teacher, Wilson Jones, was indicted for using AI to create child pornography depicting students from Corinth Middle School. The school's internet filter alerted administrators to inappropriate activity. Three videos of students in inappropriate situations were found on his computer; Jones admitted to using AI but claimed they weren't sexual. Keystroke analysis revealed explicit prompts used in the AI system. Eight victims were identified. Jones also had student usernames and passwords on his Google Drive. | Corinth Middle School students (ages 14-16) | Video, Image | USA TODAY |
| Mar 13, 2025 | A former teacher, Wilson Jones, used AI to create sexually explicit material using pictures of his students. The school's illicit content scanning program detected the images on his school-issued computer. Law enforcement seized evidence and arrested Jones. The incident came to light after the school system's program detected illicit content. | students (ages 14-16) in Corinth Middle School | Image, Video | KTVE - myarklamiss.com |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Scammers are using AI voice cloning to imitate voices of family members or bosses to request money or wire transfers. The BBB warns about the rise of these scams and advises caution when receiving urgent requests for money. | Individuals and Businesses | Audio | KnowBe4 |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Scammers created an AI-generated video deepfake of Neal Mohan to steal credentials and install malware on YouTube content creators. | Neal Mohan (YouTube CEO) | Video | InformationWeek |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Deepfake videos of experts from The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute promoting a diabetes supplement; deepfake images of Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki used on Facebook to sell pills; TikTok Shop sellers manipulated doctors' videos to falsely endorse products. | The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute experts, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki, and other doctors | Image, Video, Audio | The Conversation |
| Mar 12, 2025 | An AI-generated voice clone of President Biden was used in a robocall campaign in New Hampshire. The individual responsible was fined $6 million by the FCC for violating the Truth in Caller ID Act. An independent researcher estimated 244,625 deepfake pornography videos were uploaded to top websites over seven years, with nearly half uploaded in the final nine months. A study showed one in six women in Congress were targeted by AI-generated sexual deepfakes. | President Biden | Audio, Image, Video | Popular Science |
| Mar 12, 2025 | A Mississippi teacher, Wilson Jones, was arrested for creating AI-generated videos depicting multiple students in sexual activity. The students were unaware of the videos and did not participate willingly. A search warrant executed on March 3 resulted in the seizure of a laptop and thumb drive containing the videos. The case has been handed to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office. | Multiple students | Video | FOX13 Memphis |
| Mar 12, 2025 | AI voice cloning scams targeting families by mimicking their children's voices to extort money. At least two specific incidents are reported, one in an unspecified month/year and another in April 2024. Scammers use social media videos to create the fake voices. The FBI reported approximately $2 million in losses from these scams in a single year. | Families (specifically, a Jefferson County mother and Mike Capstick) | Audio | KSDK.com |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Deepfake videos of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan were privately sent to content creators in an attempt to scam them, install malware, and steal credentials. The deepfakes mimicked Mohan's appearance and voice, leading victims to a fake page to steal account credentials. | YouTube content creators | Video, Audio | Information Security Buzz |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Report by Final Round AI analyzing search volume data from September 2023 to September 2024 shows these celebrities were frequent targets of deepfake-related searches, including pornographic and political endorsement deepfakes, sexually explicit images used in ads, fake photos and videos circulating online with millions of views before removal from platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok. | Multiple celebrities (Taylor Swift, Jenna Ortega, Pokimane, Brooke Monk, Billie Eilish, Addison Rae, Olivia Rodrigo, Bobbi Althoff, Millie Bobby Brown, Zendaya) | Image, Video | Yahoo Entertainment |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Scammers sent phishing emails seemingly from YouTube, including a deepfake video of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, to steal account information. One creator with 500,000 subscribers narrowly avoided being hacked. Over 200,000 creators faced similar attempts recently. | YouTube creators | Video | TechInformed |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Sony Music removed over 75,000 deepfake tracks from streaming platforms. These tracks used AI-generated voice models of artists like Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Queen. The removal was done manually, track by track. | Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Queen | Audio | MusicRadar |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Robocalls of a fake Joe Biden spammed the phones of voters telling them not to vote during the Democratic primaries last year. The political consultant who admitted to masterminding the scheme was fined $6 million, and the Federal Communications Commission has since banned AI-generated robocalls. | Joe Biden, voters | Audio | NBC10 Philadelphia |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Over 75,000 AI-generated deepfakes of Sony Music artists were taken down. Sony Music reported direct commercial harm and opposes the UK government's proposed 'opt-out' system for AI training data. | Sony Music artists | Audio, Video | Music Ally |
| Mar 10, 2025 | The former athletic director of a high school was arrested for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using voice cloning software to make it sound as if the principal had made racist, antisemitic remarks. | High school principal | Audio | theregister.com |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong were used to promote cryptocurrency, money-making schemes, and permanent residency applications. The deepfakes were used in scams that resulted in significant financial losses for victims. | Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong | Video | Yahoo Singapore News |
| Mar 09, 2025 | A Hong Kong employee transferred $25 million to a fraudulent account after a video conference with what he thought was his company's CFO. The CFO was actually a deepfake. | Hong Kong employee | Video, Audio | Forbes |
| Mar 08, 2025 | AI-generated scams using mimicked voices and likenesses to promote fraudulent schemes promising government funds. | Steve Harvey, Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan | Audio, Image, Video | CNN |
| Mar 08, 2025 | A 3-minute 20-second deepfake video claiming to show US President Donald Trump exposing an RSS conspiracy to stir ethnic conflict in Arunachal Pradesh went viral on Facebook. | Donald Trump | Video | Newschecker |
| Mar 08, 2025 | Fake videos of South Korean celebrities Shin Ae-ra and Kim Young-chul promoting cryptocurrency scams went viral, causing significant distress and potential financial harm to viewers who fell victim to the scheme. Authorities are investigating. | Shin Ae-ra and Kim Young-chul | Video | 조선비즈 |
| Mar 08, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Trump's plan to transform Gaza was shared by Trump himself, without the creator's consent. The video was intended as satire by the creator, Solo Avital. | Donald Trump | Video | The Jerusalem Post |
| Mar 08, 2025 | Actor Shin Ae-ra was the target of a deepfake attack involving false news about her participation in illegal investment activities. The fake news, which included deepfake images or videos, spread on social media. Shin Ae-ra denied the allegations and her agency is considering legal action. | Shin Ae-ra | Image, Video | 매일경제 |
| Mar 07, 2025 | A parody video featuring AI-generated imagery of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin emerged. The video depicts Trump as subservient to Putin in a sexually suggestive manner, also including Senator JD Vance as a voyeur. The original AI video, which the parody is based on, showed a golden statue of Trump in Gaza with children and falling money, accompanied by an AI-generated song about Trump's arrival. This original video was shared on Trump's Truth Social account and widely circulated online. The parody video uses similar AI techniques to create a satirical and explicit portrayal of the relationship between Trump and Putin. | Donald Trump | Video, Image, Audio | Daily Star |
| Mar 07, 2025 | A phishing campaign used AI-generated deepfake videos of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to target content creators. Victims received emails with a link to a deepfake video that accurately imitated Mohan's voice, appearance, and mannerisms. The video contained a link to a fake page to update YouTube Partner Program (YPP) terms, enabling the theft of user credentials. | YouTube content creators | Video, Audio | Security Magazine |
| Mar 07, 2025 | A deepfake video, styled after the reality show *Temptation Island*, used manipulated images of Sánchez and others in suggestive scenarios. It also featured the Dominican Republic's flag and a map, prompting a diplomatic incident. The PP removed the video, claiming it was intended to highlight corruption allegations against Sánchez's government, while Sánchez apologized for the video's content. | Pedro Sánchez, his wife Begoña Gómez, and José Luis Ábalos | Video, Image | The Guardian |
| Mar 07, 2025 | AI-generated video linking the Dominican Republic to corruption, parodying "The Island of Temptations", featuring Spanish officials including a shirtless Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on a beach. The video was viewed over 400,000 times before being deleted by the PP. | Dominican Republic | Video | Reuters |
| Mar 07, 2025 | Deepfake videos and images falsely portraying Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong promoting scam products and services like cryptocurrency and Permanent Resident application services. Similar incident in June 2024 involving Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong with deepfake videos commenting on international relations and promoting an investment opportunity linked to Elon Musk. The deepfakes were created using AI. | Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong | Video, Image | CNA |
| Mar 07, 2025 | Deepfake images of Texas teenager Elliston Berry were circulated at her school. The images were described as child pornography. Senator Ted Cruz intervened, leading to the images' removal from social media. | Elliston Berry | Image | Washington Examiner |
| Mar 06, 2025 | An AI-generated video of Donald Trump making a statement about taking over Gaza was created by Solo Avital and his partner as satire. The video was briefly posted online, then removed, only to be later shared by Trump himself on Truth Social. | President Donald Trump | Video | BBC.com |
| Mar 06, 2025 | Deepfake phishing scams are using AI-generated videos of known individuals, such as a boss or YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, to trick victims into revealing sensitive information or sending money. A recent scam impersonated YouTube's CEO, announcing fake monetization policy changes and including a link to a fraudulent login page (studio.youtube-plus.com) to steal credentials. Victims are threatened with account restrictions if they don't confirm the changes. | YouTubers | Video | PCWorld |
| Mar 06, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a luxurious resort went viral after being posted by Donald Trump. The creator intended it as political satire, but Trump's posting without context made it appear as propaganda. The video was made using Arcana AI in under eight hours. | Donald Trump and the public perception of Gaza | Video | The Guardian |
| Mar 06, 2025 | Scammers used an AI-generated video of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to announce false monetization policy changes, leading victims to a phishing site. | YouTube creators | Video | SOCRadar |
| Mar 06, 2025 | Two AI-generated videos are described. One showed a pro-Trump vision of Gaza with bizarre imagery, and the other, displayed at HUD, depicted President Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet. The Gaza video is described as political propaganda, while the HUD video had malicious intent. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and public perception of President Trump | Video | The New Arab |
| Mar 06, 2025 | A 35-second AI-generated video depicting Donald Trump's vision for the Gaza Strip, showing Trump and Netanyahu lounging by a pool and a rebuilt Gaza with Trump statues, went viral after being shared on Trump's Truth Social platform. The video, created by US-based filmmaker Solo Avital as a satire piece using Arcana AI software, was posted without his consent. | Donald Trump | Video | The Independent |
| Mar 06, 2025 | A 15-year-old girl's innocent picture from Instagram was used by a classmate to create a nude deepfake image using an AI app. The image was then distributed throughout her school. | Elliston Berry | Image | Hindustan Times |
| Mar 06, 2025 | Deepfake images of Elliston Berry were created and disseminated, prompting the creation and Senate passage of the Take It Down Act. | Elliston Berry | Image | Blockchain.News |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A Georgian boiler room operation used deepfakes of celebrities (Ben Fogle, Martin Lewis, and Zoe Ball) to promote fraudulent cryptocurrency investments. Victims were contacted by call centers, initially seeing fake profits before being defrauded of approximately $35 million. A larger network operating from Israel also ran a similar scheme, resulting in an estimated $240 million in losses over three years. | UK and Canada residents | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A 33-second AI-generated video depicting a utopian 'Trump Gaza' was posted by Donald Trump to Truth Social. The video, created by Israeli American filmmakers using Arcana Labs software, shows a fantastical, modernized Gaza Strip. While intended as satire, Trump's sharing of it without attribution suggested endorsement. Additional AI-generated videos, including an ASMR video and a faux *Time* magazine cover, were also shared on social media, blurring the lines between reality and propaganda. | Donald Trump and potentially his supporters | Video | The New Yorker |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Google's Gemini AI model was used to generate deepfake terrorism content and child abuse material between April 2023 and February 2024. 258 cases of AI deepfake content related to terrorism or violent extremism and 86 cases of child exploitation or abuse material were generated using Gemini. | general public; children | Image, Video, Audio | Android Headlines |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Reports indicate the Google Gemini AI was used to create deepfake child pornography and terrorist/violent extremist material. 86 reports of child sexual exploitation material and 258 reports of terrorist and violent extremist material were made between April 2023 and February 2024. | children and public | Image, Video | The Australian Financial Review |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A phishing scam used an AI-generated video of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to trick users into downloading malware or stealing credentials via a fake YouTube Creators channel and malicious links. | YouTube users via Neal Mohan deepfake | Video | PCMag Middle East |
| Mar 05, 2025 | 15-year-old Elliston Berry from Aledo, Texas, was victimized by AI-generated deepfakes. The TAKE IT DOWN Act aims to combat the spread of such material, including AI-generated deepfakes. Key provisions include criminalizing the publication or threat to publish such material. | 15-year-old Elliston Berry from Aledo, Texas | Image, Video | The Dallas Express |
| Mar 05, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake video of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used in phishing attacks. Attackers shared a private video via email, falsely claiming a change in YouTube's monetization policy. The video directed users to a fake login page to steal credentials. Some creators had their channels hijacked for cryptocurrency scams. | YouTube CEO Neal Mohan and YouTube creators | Video | BleepingComputer |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Google reported 258 complaints about AI-generated deepfake terrorist or violent extremist content and 86 reports alleging AI-generated child sexual abuse material using its Gemini AI model. Google used hash-matching technology to address child sexual abuse material but not for terrorist content. | Unspecified victims of child sexual abuse material and unspecified targets of terrorist or violent extremist content | Image, Video, Audio | Mint |
| Mar 05, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake video of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used in phishing scams to steal user credentials by announcing false changes to YouTube's payout policy. The phishing email appears to be from '[email protected]' and links to the deepfake video. | YouTube creators and users | Video | PetaPixel |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A deepfake scam last year used celebrity videos to promote fake crypto investments, resulting in over 6,000 victims losing approximately £27 million. | 6,000 victims | Video | TechRound |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A deepfake video of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promoting a fraudulent automated bank account system is circulating online. The video also features a CNN News18 anchor. The deepfake was created by combining original videos of Sitharaman discussing the Union Budget 2025 and the CNN News18 anchor reporting on the 2024 Maharashtra elections. AI detection tools confirmed the video and audio as AI-manipulated. | Nirmala Sitharaman and CNN News18 anchor | Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Deepfake videos falsely showing SBI executives endorsing fake investment schemes. The bank clarified that they are not associated with these deceptive offers. | State Bank of India (SBI) customers | Video | News Karnataka |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Scammers used an AI-generated deepfake video of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to promote an investment company promising a monthly income of ֏ 1.8 million ($4,500). Viewers were urged to follow a link and provide personal information. Similar incidents have targeted other Armenian public figures, including RFE/RL and Armenian Public TV anchors and doctors, often to advertise drugs. | Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan | Video | OC Media |
| Mar 05, 2025 | 15-year-old Elliston Berry was the victim of an AI-generated deepfake image. The incident prompted Melania Trump's advocacy for the 'Take It Down' bill, which aims to criminalize posting intimate images (real and AI-generated) without consent and mandates tech companies to remove such content within 48 hours. | Elliston Berry | Image | NDTV |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Investment scams using deepfake technology are targeting investors in the Philippines. Scammers are using AI-generated deepfakes to steal money. The SEC is investigating, tracing bank accounts and digital wallets, and collaborating with online platforms and the DICT to track fraudulent transactions. A fake sponsored post using an old interview of tycoon Ramon Ang is cited as an example. | Investors in the Philippines | Image, Video | Fintech News Philippines |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Fifteen-year-old Elliston Berry was a victim of AI deepfakes. President Trump addressed the issue in a Joint Session of Congress on March 5, 2025, advocating for stronger child protection measures with the "Take It Down Act." | Elliston Berry | Image, Video, Audio | Blockchain.News |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Deepfake videos circulating on social media falsely feature SBI's top management endorsing investment schemes. SBI clarified that neither the bank nor its officials support such schemes. | State Bank of India (SBI) and its customers | Video, Audio | The Times of India |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A deepfake pornography chatroom with 1200 participants, active since 2020, was discovered on Telegram in August 2024. The chatroom contained sexually explicit deepfake images and videos. Similar chatrooms were found connected to universities, schools, and military units. Users migrated to other encrypted messaging apps (Signal, SimpleX Chat, Viber) after Telegram cooperated with authorities. | Various individuals depicted in deepfake pornography | Image, Video | The Straits Times |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A deepfake video of Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk garnered 1 million views on social media, falsely claiming the state was in financial trouble. | Annastacia Palaszczuk | Video | The Conversation |
| Mar 05, 2025 | A classmate used an AI app to create a sexually explicit deepfake image of 14-year-old Elliston Berry and circulated it on social media. The image was removed after Senator Ted Cruz's office intervened with Snapchat. | Elliston Berry | Image | USA TODAY |
| Mar 04, 2025 | AI-generated nude images of Elliston Berry, created using photos from her private Instagram, were circulated around her school in October 2023. A male classmate was identified as the perpetrator. The incident led to the creation of the Take It Down Act, which aims to increase protections for victims of non-consensual sharing of sexual images, including AI-generated deepfakes. | Elliston Berry | Image | Daily Mail |
| Mar 04, 2025 | Europol's Operation Cumberland resulted in the arrest of 24 individuals across 19 countries for their involvement in AI-generated child pornography. A ringleader, operating a website offering AI-created child sexual abuse material (CSAM), was arrested in Denmark in November, initiating the operation. A total of 273 suspects are involved, with 33 house searches conducted and 173 electronic devices seized. The operation highlights the challenges in prosecuting AI-generated CSAM due to a lack of specific national legislation. | children | Image, Video | GZERO Media |
| Mar 04, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring AI-generated likenesses of 20 Jewish celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, promoting a message against antisemitism went viral. Johansson condemned the unauthorized use of her likeness, sparking calls for stronger deepfake regulations. This event impacted the cryptocurrency market, particularly AI-related tokens. | Scarlett Johansson and 19 other Jewish celebrities | Video | Blockchain.News |
| Mar 04, 2025 | Multiple victims of deepfake-generated pornography and non-consensual videos shared their stories, highlighting the lack of legal recourse and prompting the creation of the Take It Down Act. Elliston Berry's case, involving AI-generated nude photos, was particularly impactful. Breeze Liu created an AI tool to help remove non-consensual images. The bill passed the Senate and has bipartisan support in the House. | Elliston Berry, Francesca Mani, Breeze Liu, Gavin Guffey | Image, Video | NTD |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A survey of 1,200 young people aged 13-20 reveals that 1 in 8 know someone targeted by AI-generated deepfake pornographic images or videos, and 1 in 17 have been targets themselves. 13% knew someone who used AI to create or redistribute deepfake pornography of minors. The ease of creation and distribution is a rising challenge for schools, with cases involving boys as young as 14 creating and sharing deepfakes of female classmates. Over 80% of respondents recognize the harm caused by deepfake nudes, citing emotional/psychological impact and reputational damage as primary concerns. The report highlights that 2% of young people surveyed created deepfakes, with 74% targeting women, and over 30% depicting minors. | teens aged 13-20 | Image, Video | Education Week |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A classmate used an image from social media to create fake naked photos of her when she was 14 years old. | Elliston Berry | Image | FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A deepfake video of Vidya Balan was circulated online. She used Instagram to warn fans about the video and urged them to verify information before sharing. Several other Indian film personalities have also been targeted by similar deepfake videos. | Vidya Balan | Video | India West |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A study by Thorn reveals that numerous teenagers have been victimized by AI-generated pornographic deepfakes. Specific incidents include those at Westfield High School in New Jersey (October 2023) and Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania (December 2024), where perpetrators created deepfakes of female students. The ease of creating and sharing such content disproportionately affects girls and women. | Teenage girls and women | Image, Video | Forbes |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A 3-minute 33-second deepfake video falsely showed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman endorsing a government investment platform, claiming investors would receive ₹15,00,000 in a month for an investment of ₹21,000. Lip movements were unnatural and out of sync with the speech. Reverse image and voice analysis tools confirmed the video and audio were AI-generated. | Nirmala Sitharaman | Video, Audio | Newschecker |
| Mar 03, 2025 | A deepfake video circulating on social media depicts former President Bill Clinton discussing Jeffrey Epstein's client list. The video, shared on X (formerly Twitter), is falsely presented as a recent statement. However, the video originates from a 2020 Bill Clinton speech at the Democratic National Convention. The deepfake video includes text indicating it is satire. A Google Lens search confirmed the source video on NBC News' YouTube channel. AI detection tools showed a 99%+ probability of AI generation, confirming the video as a deepfake. | Bill Clinton | Video | The Quint |
| Mar 03, 2025 | In March 2025, a deepfake scam using videos of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto defrauded citizens across 20 provinces. Victims were instructed to pay an "administrative fee" to receive financial aid that never materialized. At least one suspect was arrested, having made 65 million rupiah ($4,000). Similar deepfakes of other Indonesian figures were used in similar scams. Despite arrests, deepfake videos continue to circulate, with some accounts boasting thousands of followers and millions of views. TikTok confirmed removing some content, but the prevalence of these scams remains a concern. Fact-checking organizations report a weekly discovery of new deepfake scams. | Indonesian citizens | Video | MyIndMakers |
| Mar 03, 2025 | AI-generated deepfake videos of Vidya Balan and other Bollywood actors circulated online. The videos were not created or endorsed by the actors. | Vidya Balan and other Bollywood actors | Video | ARY NEWS |
| Mar 03, 2025 | An AI deepfake video of endocrinologist Professor Jonathan Shaw was created calling doctors “idiots” for treating diabetes with metformin. The video was posted on Facebook and was removed only after his employer pointed out a copyright violation. | Professor Jonathan Shaw | Video | Australian Doctor |
| Mar 02, 2025 | A young woman, known only as Jodie, was victimized by a deepfake video created by her friend, Alex Woolf, a BBC music prodigy. Woolf used Jodie's images to create a deepfake pornographic video and distributed it online. Jodie discovered the video and identified Woolf by recognizing an image not shared on social media. Woolf pleaded guilty to sending grossly offensive messages, and Jodie's case highlights the challenges in prosecuting such crimes and the lack of adequate legal protection and police response in the UK. | Jodie | Video, Image | Daily Mail |
| Mar 02, 2025 | Deepfake videos circulating on social media platforms, including Instagram and TikTok, showed Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto offering financial aid. Victims were instructed to contact a WhatsApp number and pay an "administrative fee" to receive the aid, which never materialized. Police arrested a suspect who profited from the scam. At least 22 TikTok accounts promoted the scheme. TikTok removed one deepfake video and the associated account. | Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and other high-profile figures | Video | NDTV |
| Mar 02, 2025 | A deepfake video of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto circulated on Instagram in November. The video showed him asking constituents about their needs, and was used in a scam to swindle Indonesians. | Indonesians | Video | The Caledonian-Record |
| Feb 28, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a radically transformed Gaza strip as a luxury resort with Donald Trump's name. The video morphed war-torn Gaza into a beachfront paradise, including a scene of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lounging poolside. It circulated on Truth Social, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn. | Palestinians and the Arab community | Video | uscannenbergmedia.com |
| Feb 28, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a physical altercation between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went viral on X. The video shows Zelensky seemingly attacking Trump, with Trump and Vance retaliating. This follows a real-life tense confrontation at the White House where a minerals agreement was not signed. The deepfake video is connected to a real event, but the video itself is fabricated. | Donald Trump, JD Vance, Volodymyr Zelensky | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Feb 28, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Donald Trump licking Elon Musk's feet has surfaced online. | Donald Trump and Elon Musk | Video | Firstpost |
| Feb 28, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Elon Musk enjoying a luxurious Gaza was released by Trump. It was met with a counter-video from the Palestinian digital media platform Sahat, showing a different vision for Gaza's future and the consequences for the leaders depicted in the original video. | Palestinians | Video | The New Arab |
| Feb 28, 2025 | A satirical deepfake video of Bill Clinton discussing Jeffrey Epstein's client list went viral on X, gaining 26.6K views. The video included text overlays identifying it as satire and was created by a parody account. AI detection tools confirmed it as likely AI-generated. | Bill Clinton | Video | Newschecker |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Explicit videos and images of Breeze Liu, some real and some deepfaked, were shared online without her consent in 2020. The content was reportedly filmed when Liu was 17 years old. Some content appeared on Pornhub, and much was stored on Microsoft's Azure cloud servers. Microsoft allegedly failed to respond promptly to Liu's requests for removal, eventually taking down much of the content after a direct confrontation. | Breeze Liu | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Feb 27, 2025 | A fake audio clip of Donald Trump Jr. seemingly supporting Russia's actions in Ukraine was spread across social media. The audio, apparently generated using artificial intelligence, depicts Trump Jr. stating that the U.S. should have sent weapons to Russia instead of Ukraine. A spokesperson for Trump Jr. confirmed that the audio is "100% fake." Deepfake experts analyzed the audio and concluded it was likely AI-generated. The clip was falsely presented as being from a February 25th episode of Trump Jr.'s podcast, "Triggered." The fake audio was shared by accounts including an official Democratic Party account on X (formerly Twitter) before being deleted. | Donald Trump Jr. | Audio | FactCheck.org |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Microsoft sued four developers for creating and selling deepfake nude images of celebrities using compromised accounts and Microsoft AI tools. The developers were part of a cybercrime network called Storm-2139. A website associated with the operation was seized. | celebrities | Image | Gizmodo |
| Feb 27, 2025 | A widely shared clip of Donald Trump Jr. allegedly saying on his podcast that the US should have sent arms to Russia rather than Ukraine has been very likely generated using AI, audio forensics experts have told BBC Verify. | Donald Trump Jr. | Audio | BBC.com |
| Feb 27, 2025 | A cybercrime network called Storm-2139, used illegally accessed generative AI services (including Microsoft's Azure OpenAI) to create and sell tools for generating non-consensual intimate images of celebrities and other sexually explicit content. Microsoft filed a lawsuit against six developers involved. The celebrities targeted remain unnamed for privacy reasons. | unnamed celebrities | Image, Video | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Feb 27, 2025 | ABC News created a deepfake of Senator Jacqui Lambie's voice to demonstrate the potential for deepfake audio in influencing elections. The deepfake was used in a robocall advocating for moving Australia's capital to Tasmania. While Senator Lambie found the clone slightly unconvincing, she expressed concern about future advancements in the technology. Public reaction was mixed, with some recognizing the deepfake while others were fooled. | Senator Jacqui Lambie | Audio | ABC News |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Storm-2139 cybercrime gang used generative AI to create deepfakes, primarily non-consensual intimate images of celebrities. The gang members (Arian Yadegarnia, Alan Krysiak, Ricky Yuen, and Phát Phùng Tấn) exploited exposed credentials to access AI services and sold tools for generating illicit content. Microsoft's lawsuit in December 2024, a temporary restraining order, and seizure of a key website disrupted the gang's operations. | celebrities | Image, Video | BleepingComputer |
| Feb 27, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting former President Bill Clinton discussing the anticipated release of Jeffrey Epstein's client list. The video, clearly labeled as satire, shows an AI version of Clinton making statements about the list and includes an AI depiction of Hillary Clinton's voice. While labeled satire, the video has drawn criticism for its potential to spread misinformation. | Bill Clinton | Video, Audio | Newsweek |
| Feb 27, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting President Trump performing oral sex on Elon Musk was shared on Bluesky. The video's text overlay read "Long Live The Real King." The video originated from hacked TV screens within HUD federal offices. Bluesky initially removed the video, citing its policy against non-consensual explicit material. After the poster explained the video's newsworthy context as protest, Bluesky reinstated the video. Bluesky stated that moderators initially misjudged the context and applied the policy too strictly. | President Trump and Elon Musk | Video | Gizmodo |
| Feb 27, 2025 | HYBE is partnering with the Korea’s Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency to combat deepfake videos targeting its artists. A 2023 study estimated that 53% of individuals in deepfake pornography were South Korean singers or actresses. HYBE's initiative includes a dedicated hotline for reporting deepfake crimes and swift action against offenders. | K-Pop artists (specifically those under HYBE) | Video | MusicRadar |
| Feb 27, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a fantasy of Gaza transformed into a luxury resort, featuring Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Benjamin Netanyahu. Palestinians are absent from this idyllic vision, which follows initial scenes of destruction and violence. The video is described as a surreal, illogical sequence of clips showing lavish hotels, restaurants, and sports cars, with money raining down and a golden statue of Trump. | Palestinians | Video | The Independent |
| Feb 27, 2025 | A satirical video falsely claiming Donald Trump would ban Indian customer service representatives in the US was created using Clive AI and shared on January 25th. Contrails AI confirmed the video and audio manipulation. The deepfake was based on a January 10th WAAY 31 News video. | Donald Trump | Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Feb 27, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a luxurious tourist destination with Trump-branded buildings, a giant gold statue of Trump, and AI-generated versions of Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu. The video's upbeat tone and message of "Trump Gaza is finally here" drew intense criticism for trivializing the ongoing conflict and suffering in Gaza, ignoring the destruction and humanitarian crisis, and promoting a narrative of displacing Gaza's population. | Gaza | Video | Euronews |
| Feb 27, 2025 | A video posted to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account shows manipulated images of Gaza. Decimated streets and neighborhoods are replaced with images of beach hotels, dancing women, and shops selling gold. The video promotes Trump's proposal to develop Gaza's coast into a luxury resort area. The video also depicts Elon Musk throwing money and ends with a photoshopped image of Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu relaxing by a pool. | Palestinians | Video, Image | TIME |
| Feb 27, 2025 | In Delhi, voice cloning was used to defraud a senior citizen of ₹50,000. In Bengaluru, a deepfake video of business figures defrauded citizens of ₹95 lakhs. | senior citizen in Delhi, citizens in Bengaluru | Audio, Video | SHRM |
| Feb 27, 2025 | South Korean police are investigating two YouTubers for creating and displaying a deepfake video of President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee. The video, shown at a protest in Gwangju on February 15th, contained sexually demeaning content. One suspect is a resident of Gyeonggi Province; the other lives overseas. The presidential office filed criminal charges, calling the video a "blatant insult and a severe infringement of human rights." | President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee | Video | The Korea Herald |
| Feb 27, 2025 | AI-generated video promoting Trump-branded resorts in Gaza, including manipulated images of destruction, Trump and Netanyahu, and an AI-generated song. Shared on Truth Social. | Hamas and Palestinians | Image, Video, Audio | Yahoo |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Someone used Alexis Austin's image in AI-generated content on dating sites, causing reputational damage. | Alexis Austin | Image | NBC Connecticut |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting President Trump at a 'Trump Gaza' hotel with Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu sparked outrage among Palestinians. The AI-generated video, which had previously circulated on social media, was posted by President Trump on his Truth Social platform. The video shows Musk throwing money and Trump drinking by a pool with Netanyahu. | Palestinians | Video | NBC News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a luxurious resort called "TRUMP GAZA" in Gaza was posted on social media by Donald Trump. The video shows a transformation from war-torn ruins to a glamorous area. Trump, Netanyahu, and Musk are depicted in the video, which also includes a soundtrack. The video is in response to Trump's February 4th press conference announcing plans to transform Gaza into a resort. | Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk, Palestinians | Video, Audio | NorthJersey.com |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a fantastical future Gaza, including a Trump statue and money raining from the sky, was shared by President Donald Trump on social media. The video, initially spread by pro-Israel social media accounts, drew condemnation. The video incorporates AI-generated images, including one showing Trump and Netanyahu on a beach with a "Trump Riviera" sign, which had previously gone viral. One of the earliest posts of the video came from a pro-Israel account, @huntersofnazis, who later claimed it was a joke. The image contained a Grok AI watermark. | Palestinians, and indirectly the image of Gaza | Image, Video | NBC News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | President Donald Trump posted a video on Truth Social that appears to be AI-generated, showing a transformation of Gaza into a resort. The video is related to Trump’s previous proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza. | Unknown | Video | CNN |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A video posted on Truth Social depicts Gaza transformed into a Trump-branded resort town. The video includes soldiers helping a child, a family exiting a tunnel to a beachfront with skyscrapers, Elon Musk eating hummus, belly dancers, and Trump schmoozing and socializing. The video's lyrics include "Donald’s coming to set you free" and "Trump-Gaza's finally here." The video concludes with Trump and Netanyahu by a resort pool. | Donald Trump | Video | BuzzFeed |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A 33-second AI-generated video posted by Donald Trump depicts a U.S.-colonized Gaza transformed into a luxury beach resort, seemingly enacting his "Riviera" plan. The video, titled "Gaza 2025", shows Palestinians amidst rubble pursued by soldiers, transitioning to a scene of a lavish resort called "Trump Gaza". The resort features prominent Trump imagery, alongside Elon Musk depicted enjoying the resort's opulence. The video's soundtrack promotes "Trump Gaza", celebrating the displacement of Palestinians. | Palestinians | Video, Audio | Truthout |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A 33-second video shared on President Trump's Truth Social platform depicts a computer-generated vision of Gaza under U.S. oversight. It juxtaposes images of current poverty with a modern city, featuring AI renderings of Trump, Musk, and Netanyahu. The video includes computer-generated music and lyrics. Trump did not comment on the video's origin. The video aligns with Trump's previously stated plan to transform Gaza, which is rejected by Palestinians. The release coincides with ceasefire negotiations. | Palestinian people, potentially impacting ceasefire negotiations | Video, Image, Audio | FOX 5 New York |
| Feb 26, 2025 | President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social depicting a seemingly AI-generated transformed Gaza Strip, promoting a "golden future" with skyscrapers, yachts, and a statue of himself. The video includes images of Elon Musk with money and Trump and Netanyahu poolside. | The public, to promote a political agenda | Video | Scripps News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A video of Gaza, generated by artificial intelligence, was posted by US President Donald Trump on his site Truth Social. This sparked a social media frenzy. | Donald Trump | Video | BBC.com |
| Feb 26, 2025 | On February 25, 2025, Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social depicting a fictional, AI-generated vision of a redeveloped Gaza Strip. The video included scenes of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sunbathing, a large golden Trump statue, and other fantastical elements. The video's soundtrack contained lyrics about Trump bringing freedom and prosperity to Gaza. The video's AI origin was widely reported, with AI detection models indicating a high probability of AI generation. The source of the video remains unconfirmed. | Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu | Video, Audio | Snopes.com |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a luxurious Gaza with no Palestinians, promoting Trump's plan to expel Palestinians and establish an American-controlled enclave. | Palestinians | Video | Mother Jones |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A 33-second AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a seaside resort with Trump as a golden statue was posted to Trump's social media. It included AI-generated images of Trump, Netanyahu, and Elon Musk. The video was viewed over 15 million times and prompted speculation about hacking. It remained online for hours without denial or retraction. | Donald Trump | Video, Image | South China Morning Post |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A 33-second video shared by Donald Trump on Truth Social on February 25, 2025, depicted AI-generated imagery of a rebuilt Gaza under U.S. control. The video included AI renderings of Trump, Elon Musk, and Benjamin Netanyahu, juxtaposing images of poverty with a futuristic Gaza. The video promoted Trump's plan to relocate Gaza's Palestinian population, a plan widely rejected by Palestinians. | The general public, Palestinians | Video, Image, Audio | LiveNOW from FOX |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social platform depicting a transformed Gaza Strip, featuring AI-generated images of Elon Musk and a topless Benjamin Netanyahu. The video promotes Trump's plan to "take over" Gaza. | Benjamin Netanyahu | Video, Image | Deadline |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicts a fantastical vision of Gaza under President Trump's control, contrasting war-torn images with CGI of skyscrapers, luxury cars, and resorts. It includes Trump's top campaign donor, a golden statue of Trump, and Elon Musk dancing in falling money. The video's source is unclear, but it follows Trump's announcement of plans to have the U.S. "take over" Gaza, a proposal condemned by the UN as "tantamount to ethnic cleansing". | President Trump, Palestinians, Gaza | Video | MSNBC |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Trump and Netanyahu in Gaza as a luxury resort called "TRUMP GAZA." The video includes scenes of children in a rebuilt Gaza, men in drag dancing, Trump enjoying a belly dancer, and Elon Musk showered with money. The video sparked criticism from Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. and Gaza. | Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. and Gaza | Video | NPR |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a "Trump Gaza" hotel in a luxurious beachfront setting. The video was posted on social media by President Trump and received criticism. | President Trump | Video | NBC News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a transformed Gaza Strip with luxurious additions and golden Trump statues was shared by President Trump on his Truth Social account. The video, initially shared online in early February, showed a reimagined Gaza with skyscrapers, hotels, and beaches, and included a song about Trump's plan for Gaza. This plan involves relocating Gaza's two million residents. The video received widespread criticism. | Gaza Strip residents and potentially Palestinians more broadly | Video, Audio | Forbes |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a futuristic, idyllic Gaza with skyscrapers, resorts, and luxury vehicles was shared by US President Donald Trump on Truth Social. The video includes bizarre scenes such as a giant statue of Trump and Elon Musk playfully showering money on tourists. The video concludes with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu semi-naked by a pool. The video sparked overwhelmingly negative reactions from Trump's supporters, who criticized its content as insensitive and disrespectful to Palestinians. | Donald Trump supporters and Palestinians | Video | The New Arab |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a "Trump Gaza" resort featuring Trump, Elon Musk, and Netanyahu was shared by Trump on Truth Social. The video contrasts war-torn images of Gaza with a developed resort, promoting Trump's plan for the U.S. to take over Gaza and develop it. | President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu | Video | Forbes |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A video seemingly generated by AI was posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account. The video promoted Trump's plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza, depicting golden statues of himself and Elon Musk, and a beachfront resort. The video's content included images of Trump, bearded belly dancers, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump's plan involves expelling 2.1 million Palestinians to create a "Riviera of the Middle East." | Donald Trump | Video, Image | KGW.com |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A music video shared on President Trump's Truth Social platform depicts a reimagined Gaza as a luxurious vacation destination, featuring a golden Trump statue and parties. The video, seemingly AI-generated, contrasts the war-torn reality of Gaza with a fantasy version. Elon Musk also appears in the video. The video follows President Trump's suggestion to oust Palestinians from Gaza and transform it into a "Riviera of the Middle East." | Elon Musk | Video, Audio | New York Daily News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A deepfake audio clip falsely attributes a statement to Donald Trump regarding Imran Khan's imprisonment. The fabricated audio claims Trump said the Pakistani diaspora urged him to advocate for Khan's release but that he wouldn't interfere due to Khan's conviction. This is false; no credible news outlets reported such a statement. Experts identified inconsistencies in the audio, and deepfake detection tools classified it as likely AI-generated. The audio is part of a pattern of AI-generated misinformation targeting Trump. | Donald Trump | Audio | Soch Fact Check |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting a futuristic Gaza Strip under Donald Trump's control was shared on Truth Social. The video includes Trump and Netanyahu, a golden Trump statue, Elon Musk, and various other elements. The video's soundtrack includes lyrics about Trump liberating Gaza. The video's content is intended to support Trump's plan to seize control of Gaza, a controversial proposal that has drawn both support and dissent. | Multiple entities including Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and various Arab states | Video, Audio | Crypto Times |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A video appearing to be created with generative AI, posted by Donald Trump on Truth Social, depicts a transformed Gaza as a resort with a golden statue of himself and other prominent figures. The video promotes Trump's proposal to expel 2.1 million Palestinians and transform Gaza into a US-owned "Riviera". The proposal has been met with strong criticism, including condemnation from the Palestinian Authority as a "serious violation of international law". | Palestinians, international community | Video | CNN |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Trump's vision for Gaza, showing a transformed Gaza with a golden statue of Trump, Trump and Netanyahu poolside, and Elon Musk eating hummus. The video includes a song praising Trump and depicts Hamas members dancing in bikinis. | Unknown | Video | New York Post |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Donald Trump in Gaza promoting a property development plan alongside a topless Benjamin Netanyahu. The video shows a futuristic Gaza transformed into a luxurious resort and includes images of Trump as a revered figure, with a golden statue erected in his likeness. Elon Musk also features in the video. The video was shared on Truth Social and faced backlash. The creator remains unknown. | Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk | Video | The Guardian US |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a vision for Gaza after the war with Israel and Hamas ends. The video shows gleaming skyscrapers, gold statues of Trump, and scenes of Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An AI-generated song accompanies the video, celebrating a 'Trump Gaza.' The video also features Trump's purported close friend enjoying hummus and throwing money around on the beach, and bearded belly dancers. Trump's plan involves relocating two million Palestinians to neighboring Arab countries and redeveloping Gaza. This proposal has been rebuked by Arab and European nations. Trump has previously used AI to create false endorsements and images of himself. | President Trump | Image, Video, Audio | PetaPixel |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing himself and Benjamin Netanyahu sunbathing at a Dubai-style resort while Elon Musk is showered with money on a beach. The video, seemingly previously posted by unaffiliated accounts, reflects Trump's comment about Gaza becoming 'the Riviera of the Middle East'. | Unknown | Video | The Guardian US |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A deepfake video of Sri Lankan billionaire Dhammika Perera endorsing an investment platform promising high returns was circulated on Facebook. Deepfake detection tools flagged the video as a deepfake with high probability (80-94%). Inconsistencies in facial movements, unnatural lip-syncing, distortions, and mismatched speech patterns were identified. The video promoted an investment scheme promising to double an initial investment of 75,000 LKR to 150,000 LKR in one week. | Dhammika Perera | Video, Audio | Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a luxury beachfront city with skyscrapers and Teslas, featuring Elon Musk throwing money and golden Trump statues, was shared by Donald Trump on Truth Social. The video is part of a plan discussed with Benjamin Netanyahu to redevelop Gaza and resettle Palestinians elsewhere, causing international outrage and condemnation. | Gazans and the Arab world | Video | The National |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Donald Trump sunbathing in Gaza with Benjamin Netanyahu, children emerging from destroyed tunnels onto a beach with skyscrapers and hotels, Elon Musk handing out money, and what appear to be "trans Arab belly dancers". A large golden statue of Trump and a hotel with the words "Trump Gaza" are also shown. The video ends with Trump seemingly drinking a pint. The video's song includes lyrics such as "Donald is coming to set you free, bringing the light for all to see. No more tunnels, no more fear, Trump Gaza is finally here." | Donald Trump | Video | GB News |
| Feb 26, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting a utopian vision of Gaza in 2025, juxtaposed with scenes of destruction. The video was posted on social media by U.S. President Donald Trump. | Gaza | Video | POLITICO Europe |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting a rebuilt Gaza Strip with a 'Trump Gaza' hotel and featuring Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Benjamin Netanyahu relaxing by a pool was shared by Donald Trump on Truth Social. The video portrays a transformation from a war-torn area to a beach resort and includes a golden Trump statue and a song praising Trump. | Unknown | Video | Newsweek |
| Feb 26, 2025 | An AI-generated video of Donald Trump licking Elon Musk's feet was displayed on internal HUD televisions. The video included the message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING." The individual responsible was identified and escorted from the property, facing potential legal ramifications, termination, or suspension of services. The incident followed government budget cuts and the recovery of allegedly misplaced funds by HUD. The video was initially shared on social media by a Vox reporter. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Feb 26, 2025 | A deepfake video was created using Vijay Kedia's likeness and voice to promote stocks. The deepfake was identified by unnatural aspects such as accent and English fluency, which differed from Kedia's typical speaking style. Kedia warned his followers on social media about this. | Vijay Kedia | Video, Audio | The Financial Express |
| Feb 25, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting President Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet was broadcast on public TVs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters. The video included the message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING." The individual responsible has been identified by federal authorities, and legal action is being explored. The incident follows claims by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of recovering misallocated funds from HUD and demands for increased worker productivity. The deepfake incident has been linked to ongoing tensions between government workers and the Trump-Musk administration. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Video | New York Post |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Hackers projected a 19-second AI-generated video onto television screens in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) cafeteria. The video showed Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet, with the caption "Long live the real king." The clip played for five minutes before building staff could disable it. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Video | Evening Standard |
| Feb 25, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting former President Donald Trump performing a sexual act on Elon Musk was shown on screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters. The video included the text "Long Live the Real King." HUD launched an internal investigation. | Donald Trump and Elon Musk | Video | The Times of India |
| Feb 25, 2025 | AI-generated video of President Trump kissing Elon Musk's bare feet played on a loop on office televisions at a HUD office in Washington, D.C. The video was accompanied by the text "long live the real king." | HUD employees | Video | Gamereactor UK |
| Feb 25, 2025 | A 19-second deepfake video depicting President Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet was played on a loop for five minutes on screens throughout the HUD building. Building staff unplugged TVs to stop it. The incident occurred on the day federal workers were ordered to return to the office. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) staff | Video | The Independent |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Hacked television screens at HUD headquarters displayed a deepfake video depicting Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The looped video included the message "Long live the real king." The incident caused staff to unplug the displays and led to an investigation into whether it was an external hack or inside job. The HUD website was also temporarily inaccessible. | US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Video | Cyber Daily |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Hackers breached a cafeteria television and broadcast an AI-generated video depicting former President Donald Trump kissing billionaire Elon Musk's feet, with the phrase "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" superimposed. The video, reportedly originating from a previous X (formerly Twitter) post, sparked national attention and debate. | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters cafeteria television | Video | The Times of India |
| Feb 24, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video depicting President Donald Trump performing oral sex on Elon Musk was displayed on screens throughout HUD headquarters for approximately 5 minutes. Staff unplugged the televisions to stop the video. The perpetrator is unidentified, but the incident followed increased public resistance from federal workers to Musk's cost-cutting measures. | HUD employees | Video | The Record from Recorded Future News |
| Feb 24, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet was displayed on a loop at HUD headquarters. The video included the text "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING." Employees had to manually shut down televisions to stop playback. The AI-generated nature was suggested by Musk having two left feet. HUD called it a waste of taxpayer money, while Secretary Turner's office blamed a malfunction. | Elon Musk and Donald Trump | Video | Forbes |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Hacked HUD screens displayed a deepfake video of President Trump kissing Elon Musk's toes with the message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING." The video's origin is unknown. A HUD spokeswoman stated that "Appropriate action will be taken," but didn't clarify how the incident wasted taxpayer resources. The video's text may reference a Trump social media post. | HUD screens | Video | Washington Examiner |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Gabby Petito's mother, Nichole Schmidt, expressed discomfort with the use of deepfake technology to recreate her daughter's voice in the Netflix series *American Murder: Gabby Petito*. While the series disclosed the use of AI voice recreation, Schmidt described the experience as 'weird' and noted a slight difference from Gabby's real voice. The filmmakers used Gabby's journals and text messages as source material. | Gabby Petito | Audio | Cosmopolitan UK |
| Feb 24, 2025 | The CryptoCore group used deepfake technology to create fake investment schemes tied to high-profile events (U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk statements). Deepfake videos of public figures like Donald Trump were used, resulting in over $7 million stolen in Q4 2024. | Multiple victims through fake investment schemes tied to high-profile events and public figures (Donald Trump); over $7 million stolen | Video | IT News Africa |
| Feb 24, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Barron Trump performing on America's Got Talent went viral on various social media platforms. While some videos included disclaimers, many viewers believed them to be authentic. The deepfakes showed signs of AI manipulation, such as unnatural lip-syncing and inconsistent facial expressions. Fact-checking organizations confirmed their artificial nature. | Barron Trump | Video | Snopes.com |
| Feb 23, 2025 | AI-generated disinformation campaigns, including deepfakes and manipulated audio, were used to undermine electoral authorities and processes in African elections. In South Africa's 2024 election, a deepfake video of Donald Trump endorsing the Umkhonto we Sizwe party was widely shared. In Burkina Faso after the 2022 coup, AI-generated videos using Synthesia urged support for the military junta, possibly linked to the Wagner Group. These videos circulated on Facebook and WhatsApp. | African elections; South African 2024 elections; Burkina Faso post-2022 coup | Video, Audio | DW (English) |
| Feb 21, 2025 | An employee at a multinational finance firm was tricked into transferring $25 million due to a deepfake of the company's CFO. A high school principal was put on leave after a deepfake video made it seem like they made racist remarks. | multinational finance firm employee; high school principal | Audio, Video | Chief Marketer |
| Feb 21, 2025 | AI-generated videos falsely depicted a 200-foot tall statue of Jesus being erected on the White House lawn. The videos were shared on Facebook and X. A live White House livestream showed no such construction. An engineering professor noted irregularities in the videos, such as a worker's arm disappearing and equipment distortion affecting the background. The videos originated from a TikTok account known for AI-generated content. Fact-checking organizations debunked the claim. | White House | Video | USA TODAY |
| Feb 21, 2025 | The deepfake pornography app Clothoff creates non-consensual deepfakes, primarily targeting women and minors. The app's connection to ASU Label, an organization with unclear origins and affiliations, is questionable. Clothoff claims to donate to support those affected by AI, but lacks transparency. | women and minors | Image, Video | bellingcat |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Two 16-year-old teenagers in Athens were arrested for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated deepfake nude images of their classmates using photos downloaded from social media without consent. Police confiscated the teenagers' phones and arrested the parents for alleged neglect. | classmates of the perpetrators | Image | Kathimerini English Edition |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Iranian women activists living in exile are targeted with deepfake pornography, explicit photos, false accusations, hateful voice notes, and reputational smears. The attacks are organized, involve the use of generative AI, and extend to family members. A 2024 Citizen Lab report details similar experiences from 85 women across 24 countries. | Iranian women activists in exile | Image, Video, Audio | New Lines Magazine |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Voice deepfake of a son conned his 80-year-old grandmother into paying $2,500. Financial institutions are increasingly targeted with AI-created or modified identification documents for fraudulent account openings and money laundering. A Hong Kong company was successfully extorted over US$25 million using deepfake recreations of its employees. | 80-year-old grandmother and Businesses/Financial Institutions | Audio, Video, Image | The Globe and Mail |
| Feb 21, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely depicting CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria discussing Kenya's role in Sudan's peace process was shared by Kenya's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Korir Sing'Oei, on his X account. Sing'Oei apologized for unknowingly sharing the manipulated video. | Fareed Zakaria and Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Video | TV47 Digital |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Police are investigating alleged deepfake pornographic images of students at Gladstone Park Secondary College in Melbourne. Up to 60 students may be affected. Two year 11 students have been suspended. Police were alerted to the digitally altered images, created using artificial intelligence, on Thursday. | 60 students at Gladstone Park Secondary College in Melbourne | Image, Video | SBS News |
| Feb 21, 2025 | A deepfake video of Sheikh Hasina discussing Bangladesh's detention centers for political prisoners circulated on social media, falsely claiming she discussed the construction and use of these centers. The video was initially shared on YouTube by the channel 'RTNews24 BD', which labeled it as containing altered or synthetic content. A reverse image search traced the original clip to a 2019 BBC Bangla interview, and a deepfake detection tool confirmed manipulation of both audio and video. | Sheikh Hasina | Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Sexually explicit, AI-generated images of female students were circulated online. Two year 11 students have been suspended. Victoria Police are investigating. | Up to 60 female students at Gladstone Park Secondary College in Melbourne, Australia | Image | ABC News |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Three cases filed under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2025 in Lahore, Pakistan, alleging creation and distribution of AI-generated deepfake videos and images depicting Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz in an immoral light. Additional charges under sections 500, 504, and 505-1 (C) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) were also included. Complaints filed by citizens and businessmen cite uploading on social media, causing reputational harm and spreading misinformation. | Maryam Nawaz | Image, Video | DAWN.com |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Joe Rogan has reported deepfakes of himself being used in online scams to sell products. He is actively working to have them removed from online platforms. | Joe Rogan | Image, Audio, Video | Sportskeeda |
| Feb 20, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dancing was shared by Donald Trump Jr. The video originally showed Russian Vusal Mekhtyev belly dancing, whose face was replaced with Zelenskyy's using AI. The incident occurred amidst escalating attacks by Donald Trump on Zelenskyy, who was referred to as a dictator and comedian, amongst other comments. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Video | India Today |
| Feb 20, 2025 | A deepfake video seemingly from CNN featuring Fareed Zakaria praising Kenya's peace efforts in Sudan was shared on X by Kenya's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The video was later found to be inauthentic due to inconsistencies such as poor video quality, mismatched audio and lip movements, and an amateurish graphic overlay. The PS deleted the video after it garnered over 60,000 views and faced significant online criticism. | Kenya's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Korir Sing'Oei, and by extension, Kenya | Video | Citizen Digital |
| Feb 20, 2025 | A deepfake video of CNN's Fareed Zakaria endorsing Kenya's role in Sudan's peace process was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Kenyan Principal Foreign Affairs Korir Singoei. The video, titled "Kenya steps up: Peacemaking or power play?", presented a positive view of Kenya's actions, but no such video exists on Zakaria's official channels. This caused outrage on social media and questions about Kenya's role in the Sudan crisis. | Fareed Zakaria and potentially Kenya's involvement in Sudan's peace process | Video | The Standard |
| Feb 20, 2025 | A deepfake video showing Zelenskyy's face superimposed onto footage of a person dancing was shared on X by Donald Trump Jr., mocking Zelenskyy. The video was originally posted by another user. This followed Trump's comments calling Zelenskyy a dictator and warning him to end the war quickly. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Video | Anadolu Agency | English |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Breeze Liu, allegedly filmed without consent when she was 17, appeared online and spread to various platforms, including PornHub. Microsoft hosted approximately 150 images related to this on its Azure cloud services for eight months despite repeated takedown requests. The delay significantly worsened the impact on Liu. Law enforcement agencies faced challenges assisting due to uncertainties around Liu's age at the time of filming. Eventually, with help from her cofounder and a French victims’ aid organization, hundreds of links were identified and takedown requests were issued to hosting providers. | Breeze Liu | Video, Image | WIRED |
| Feb 20, 2025 | A TikTok video went viral showing a creator using AI-generated videos to harass a retail employee. The AI-generated clips depicted the employee in humiliating situations. Despite the employee's requests to stop, the harassment continued. | retail employee | Video | The Cool Down |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Megan Hurley, a massage therapist, was victimized by AI-generated fake nude photos and videos. The bill refers to other victims as well, but does not give specific details. | Megan Hurley and other unspecified individuals | Image, Video | MPR News |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Attackers used a deepfake video disguised as a tutorial for unlocking TradingView's developer mode. The video instructed users to execute commands installing malware (NetSupport or Lumma Stealer), granting attackers remote access and enabling data theft. AI-generated personas were used across multiple accounts, with engagement metrics manipulated to enhance credibility. AI tools like ChatGPT were used to create malicious scripts, with attackers adapting C&C domains and using Pasteco to distribute them. The goal was data exfiltration and system compromise, using cryptocurrency as bait. | Users of a compromised YouTube channel (over 110,000 subscribers). The attack also leveraged multiple fraudulent YouTube accounts, some with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. | Video | GBHackers |
| Feb 19, 2025 | A six-second deepfake video depicting Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili kissing U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson was posted on Facebook and TikTok on February 18-19. The video, generated using artificial intelligence, is not real. The deepfake used a photo of a meeting between Wilson and Zourabichvili, posted by Wilson on X (formerly Twitter) on February 15, and an Interpressnews (IPN) information card from Facebook. The video's lower right corner showed the logos of MINIMAX, an AI chatbot, and Hailuo AI, an AI tool capable of generating visual and audio content. President Zourabichvili has been the target of multiple, often gender-biased, disinformation campaigns. | Salome Zourabichvili | Video | მითების დეტექტორი |
| Feb 19, 2025 | A new wave of cyberattacks uses AI-generated deepfake videos featuring a synthetic persona ("Thomas Harris" or "Thomas Roberts") to instruct viewers to execute a PowerShell command. This command downloads a malicious script that deploys either Lumma Stealer (to harvest cryptocurrency wallets and browser credentials) or NetSupport RAT (to grant full system control). The deepfakes use procedural details and mimic authentic TradingView workflows. Attackers used compromised YouTube channels with significant subscriber bases and YouTube's sponsored ad system. | Cryptocurrency and financial traders | Video | CybersecurityNews |
| Feb 19, 2025 | A deepfake video of Harsha Richhariya kissing a policeman at the Maha Kumbh Mela is circulating online. The original video shows her posing for a picture with the policeman; the deepfake alters the video to show a kiss. The deepfake video includes a 'pixverse.ai' logo. AI detection tool ConTrails AI confirmed the video as AI-generated. | Harsha Richhariya | Video | The Quint |
| Feb 18, 2025 | AI-generated video of late CM EK Nayanar urging party strengthening was shared on the party's social media. The video, featuring Nayanar in his Kannur dialect, encouraged party members to work towards a third term in the upcoming state elections. This occurred despite the party's previous criticism of AI's potential negative impacts. | Kerala CPI(M) party members | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Feb 18, 2025 | Fraudsters used AI-generated deepfake video calls to impersonate legitimate claim holders, using forged credentials and false addresses. Real claim data, likely obtained from public sources or leaked databases, supported the fake claims. At least $5.6 million was stolen and quickly moved through international exchanges. | Companies purchasing fake FTX liquidation claims | Video | TOKENPOST |
| Feb 18, 2025 | MEP Maria Walsh reports seeing numerous deepfakes of politicians, including herself. She highlights the malicious and pornographic motivations behind most deepfakes and the threat to trust in political systems. | Maria Walsh and other politicians | Video | Galway Bay FM |
| Feb 18, 2025 | A fraudulent AI-powered ad using Tom Hanks' likeness appeared on YouTube, promoting a fake diabetes cure. The ad manipulated footage from a previous appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" | Tom Hanks | Video | MediaPost Communications |
| Feb 18, 2025 | Two YouTubers uploaded and broadcasted a deepfake video of President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee. One YouTuber streamed the video at a rally, and the other posted it multiple times on YouTube. A complaint was filed against the YouTubers for violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes. The presidential office requested police to investigate. | President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee | Video | Anadolu Agency | English |
| Feb 17, 2025 | A five-second AI-generated video falsely depicted the USS Preble firing its HELIOS laser weapon. The video was created from a still image from the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) 2024 annual report and was not authentic footage. The video's creator admitted to generating it using AI. A Navy spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the still image but stated that the Navy had not released any videos of the HELIOS system's deployment. | U.S. Navy | Video | Reuters |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Dozens of fraudulent, sexualized deepfake images of female celebrities and athletes were widely shared on Facebook, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and reshares. Meta removed the images after a CBS News investigation, but many remained publicly available even after being flagged. The deepfakes used AI-generated bodies replacing those of celebrities in real photographs; some used image stitching. | Miranda Cosgrove, Jeanette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson, Maria Sharapova | Image | CBS News |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Georgia Harrison, a reality TV star, was a victim of revenge porn and image-based sexual abuse in 2023. A documentary, ‘Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit,’ details her experiences and investigation into these issues. | Georgia Harrison | Image, Video | Newstalk |
| Feb 17, 2025 | A video showing a girl in a yellow dress falsely claimed to be Monalisa Bhonsale, who went viral selling beads at the Maha Kumbh Mela, is circulating on social media. The Quint fact-checked this video and found it to be a deepfake. The original video is of actor Wamiqa Gabbi, manipulated using face-swap technology to replace Gabbi's face with Bhonsale's. AI detection tools confirmed the video's manipulation, identifying the "FaceSwap technique" with high confidence. This is not the first deepfake incident involving Bhonsale; The Quint previously fact-checked other deepfake videos of her. | Monalisa Bhonsale | Video | The Quint |
| Feb 17, 2025 | A deepfake video, approximately three and a half minutes long, depicting figures resembling President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, in suggestive situations, was played at a pro-impeachment rally in Gwangju on February 16, 2025. Police are investigating the incident. | President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, Kim Keon Hee | Video | The Korea JoongAng Daily |
| Feb 17, 2025 | A deepfake video showing President Yoon and his wife at a rally was played at a Gwangju rally advocating for the president's impeachment. Police launched an investigation. | President Yoon and his wife | Video | 매일경제 |
| Feb 17, 2025 | A Wichita mother, Florence Wheeler, was almost scammed out of $25,000 using AI to clone her son John's voice. The scammer convinced her that John had been in an accident and needed bail money. Wheeler initially felt it was a scam but the cloned voice triggered panic. She proceeded to the bank to withdraw the money before her daughter-in-law called, revealing the scam. | Florence Wheeler | Audio | KWCH |
| Feb 15, 2025 | Their photos and names were used without consent to create images showing their faces on nude women performing sexual acts. These images were uploaded to a porn site. | 28 North Carolina State University sorority members | Image | Spectrum News |
| Feb 15, 2025 | A YouTube channel, "True Crime Case Files," created over 150 fabricated true crime videos using AI-generated imagery, ChatGPT scripts, and AI voiceovers. One video falsely depicting a crime in Littleton, Colorado, reached 2 million views before being removed for violating YouTube's community guidelines, particularly those concerning child safety. The channel was terminated. | YouTube viewers | Image, Video, Audio | Forbes |
| Feb 14, 2025 | A voice deepfake impersonating Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto was used in a scam targeting wealthy individuals, soliciting €1 million each to free nonexistent hostages. Public figures like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Emmanuel Macron have also been targeted in various deepfake incidents. | Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, other public figures | Audio, Video, Image | Biometric Update |
| Feb 14, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting AI versions of Jewish celebrities wearing shirts with a Star of David and a middle finger, along with the name "Kanye," has gone viral. The video is a response to Kanye West selling swastika shirts and uses the likenesses of celebrities without their permission. It garnered over 8,000 likes. | Jewish celebrities (Jerry Seinfeld, Scarlett Johansson, etc.) | Video | Today at Elon |
| Feb 14, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring AI-generated versions of Jewish celebrities protesting Kanye West's antisemitic remarks was created by Ori Bejerano and Guy Bar of Gitam BBDO. The video shows celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Drake, David Schwimmer, Adam Sandler, Natalie Portman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Adam Levine, and Lenny Kravitz wearing shirts with the Star of David, a middle finger, and Kanye West's name. The video concludes with the slogan, "Enough is enough. Join the fight against antisemitism." | Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities | Video | Euronews |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Multiple incidents are described, including a French woman who lost \u00a3700,000 to scammers using a fake Brad Pitt profile; Jake Klair sent \u00a3200 to a woman whose photos were AI-generated deepfakes; Hong Kong police uncovered a $46 million romance scam using deepfake videos and audio; and Jodie* had her real images used in a catfishing scheme. | Multiple victims of romance scams | Image, Video, Audio | GLAMOUR UK |
| Feb 14, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicting various celebrities protesting Ye (Kanye West) for his antisemitic comments went viral on social media. | Ye (Kanye West) | Video | CBS News |
| Feb 13, 2025 | An AI-generated deepfake video depicting Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities wearing a shirt with "Kanye" and an antisemitic image went viral. This video is believed to be a response to Kanye West's antisemitic remarks and merchandise. | Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities (Jerry Seinfeld, Mila Kunis, Jack Black, Drake, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Adam Sandler) | Video | Business Today |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring celebrities wearing shirts with anti-Kanye messages went viral after Kanye West made anti-Semitic remarks and released a shirt with a swastika. | Kanye West | Video | UMusic |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A Sumsub survey of 2000 UK adults revealed that deepfakes and scams are prevalent on UK dating apps, affecting approximately one-fifth of users. One user, Jake Klair, lost £600 to a deepfake scammer posing as a US soldier on Tinder. The survey also revealed that an estimated £410 million has been lost to romance scams in the last five years. | Jake Klair and other UK dating app users | Image, Video | SecurityBrief UK |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring several Jewish celebrities criticizing Kanye West went viral. The video, created by Ori Bejerano and Guy Bar, purportedly as an artistic statement against rising antisemitism, showed celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Adam Sandler. Johansson released a statement expressing her lack of tolerance for antisemitism and hate speech, emphasizing the serious threat posed by AI deepfakes and urging the U.S. government to prioritize legislation limiting AI misuse. | Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Adam Sandler | Video | eWeek |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring several Jewish celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Adam Sandler, criticizing Kanye West's antisemitic remarks recently went viral. The video, created by Ori Bejerano and Guy Bar, was presented as an artistic statement addressing rising antisemitism. However, the use of AI to generate the video without the celebrities' consent sparked controversy. Scarlett Johansson released a statement expressing her lack of tolerance for antisemitism and hate speech, but also highlighting the significant threat posed by AI-generated deepfakes. | Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Adam Sandler | Video | eWeek |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video of Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities seemingly condemning Kanye West's antisemitic remarks went viral. The video was created by AI expert Ori Bejerano, who included a disclaimer. The incident prompted Johansson to call for AI legislation to prevent the misuse of AI for spreading harmful content. | Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities | Video | CNN |
| Feb 13, 2025 | In the TV show *Wagle Ki Duniya*, a deepfake video of Vivaan is used by a stalker to abduct Sakhi. Sakhi believes she's meeting Vivaan, but the cab ride is a trap. The stalker used a deepfake video to manipulate and deceive her. Rajesh and Vivaan work together to rescue her. | Sakhi | Video | The Times of India |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Deepfake images and videos of celebrities were used in scam advertisements promoting cryptocurrency and investment schemes. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reported a significant increase in these ads in 2024. | Various celebrities and public figures (Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Stacy Solomon, Anton Du Beke, Naga Munchetty) | Image, Video | Yahoo Finance UK |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Two men in Louisiana were arrested for creating and distributing deepfake child pornography. Ryan Glaser (40) and Gregory Duncan Jr. (24) were arrested on charges related to possession and distribution of unlawful deepfakes. Glaser, a convicted sex offender, was found with the material during a parole visit. Duncan was identified as the creator and distributor. The investigation involved multiple agencies and was based on Louisiana law 73.13, which criminalizes deepfakes depicting minors in sexual situations. At least 37 states have similar laws. | Children | Image, Video | News Talk 96.5 KPEL |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A 33-year-old man from Worcester, Jake Klair, lost £600 to a deepfake scam on Tinder. He believed he was communicating with a US soldier and sent the money for a supposed brother's operation. The scammer used AI to create realistic videos and audio. | Jake Klair | Video, Audio | Express |
| Feb 13, 2025 | An AI-generated video featuring Jewish celebrities wearing t-shirts with a Jewish star and a middle finger directed at Kanye West appeared online. The video highlights the lack of vocal opposition from many Jewish celebrities to rising antisemitism. | Kanye West | Video | Algemeiner |
| Feb 13, 2025 | An AI-generated video featuring deepfakes of Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Natalie Portman, and other celebrities went viral on Instagram. The video, created in response to Kanye West's Super Bowl ad, showed the celebrities wearing shirts with an anti-Kanye message. The realism of the video, despite AI imperfections, concerned viewers and prompted Johansson to call for AI legislation to protect against deepfakes. | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Natalie Portman, and other celebrities | Video | TechSpot |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring several celebrities wearing t-shirts with offensive symbols and text, set to the song "Hava Nagila", and ending with an antisemitism message. The video is believed to be AI-generated without the celebrities' consent. | Multiple celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Jerry Seinfeld, Ben Stiller, Mike Bloomberg, Mila Kunis, Woody Allen, Adam Sandler | Video, Audio | Newser |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Two K-pop fansites, Eudemonic and Sodapop, allegedly created and distributed deepfake content of IVE's Wonyoung. The fansites were blacklisted by Starship Entertainment in September 2024 following a larger deepfake scandal in South Korea. The February 12, 2025 post reignited outrage among fans demanding further clarification from Starship Entertainment. | IVE's Wonyoung | Image, Video | PINKVILLA |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video was created showing Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities protesting Kanye West's antisemitic remarks. The video was created by Guy Bar and Ori Bejerano of Gitam BBDO to counter West's statements. Scarlett Johansson and others spoke out against the misuse of AI and the potential for AI-multiplied hate speech. | Kanye West | Video | BBC.com |
| Feb 13, 2025 | An AI-generated video featuring Scarlett Johansson's likeness condemning Kanye West's antisemitism surfaced online. The video also included other celebrities such as Drake, Steven Spielberg, and Jerry Seinfeld. Scarlett Johansson responded by expressing worry about the growing dangers of AI and urging lawmakers to take action. She stated that using AI to replicate her image without consent is troubling and sets a harmful precedent. | Kanye West | Video, Image | Yahoo |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely depicted Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities condemning Kanye West for his antisemitic remarks. The video's YouTube description noted its AI origins, but its viral spread raised ethical and legal concerns. Johansson clarified she did not create or authorize the video and called for AI regulation. | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Spielberg, and Zuckerberg | Video, Image | The Plunge Daily |
| Feb 13, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities seemingly opposing Kanye West. The video included antisemitic imagery and messaging. | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Jack Black | Video | Hindustan Times |
| Feb 13, 2025 | An Israeli AI company created a deepfake video depicting Jewish celebrities seemingly endorsing a message against Kanye West's antisemitism. The video was shared widely online. Scarlett Johansson publicly criticized the video and called for legislation against AI misuse. | Michael Bloomberg, Steven Spielberg, Scarlett Johansson | Video, Image | Aish |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Scam ads using deepfakes of celebrities were the most reported type of online scam in 2024. The ads promoted cryptocurrency and suspicious investment schemes. Platforms like X (formerly Twitter) had a low response rate to alerts about these ads. | Multiple celebrities and public figures (Sir Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Stacy Solomon, Anton Du Beke, Naga Munchetty) | Image, Video | Radio News Hub |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Louisiana State Police arrested Ryan Glaser (40) and Gregory Duncan Jr. (24) for creating and distributing deepfake pornography. The investigation began in July 2023 after a routine cell phone check on Glaser, a convicted sex offender, revealed child sex abuse material. Duncan is accused of creating and distributing the deepfake material. A new Louisiana law makes creating or distributing non-consensual pornographic deepfakes illegal, carrying a minimum 10-year prison sentence. | unspecified victims of non-consensual pornographic deepfakes | Image, Video | WAFB |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A deepfake video was released by the Israeli organization Im Tirtzu, showing celebrities wearing a shirt with a middle finger and "Kanye" written underneath. The video was created in response to Kanye West's antisemitic posts and used AI-generated images. Scarlett Johansson responded to the video by calling for AI legislation. | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Lenny Kravitz | Video, Image | Billboard |
| Feb 13, 2025 | A viral video depicted Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish actors wearing a shirt with Kanye's name and an offensive symbol. The video ended with Adam Sandler giving a middle finger while the song "Hava Nagila" played. | Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish actors | Video | Inquirer.net |
| Feb 12, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicted celebrities wearing shirts with a hand giving the middle finger and a Star of David, ending with messages "Enough is Enough" and "Join the Fight Against Antisemitism." Scarlett Johansson publicly denounced the video and called for regulations on AI misuse. The video's creation and distribution remain unclear. | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler | Video | HuffPost |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on X and Instagram showed Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities wearing shirts with a Star of David inside a middle finger gesture and the word "KANYE." The video ended with a call to "Join the Fight Against Antisemitism." The creator is unknown, and NBC News hasn't independently verified its AI creation. Instagram added a disclaimer noting AI alteration. | Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities | Video | NBC News |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A viral video depicting Jewish celebrities wearing anti-Kanye West shirts was created using AI without their permission. The video, which includes celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, aimed to protest West's antisemitic comments and actions, including selling a swastika-branded T-shirt. Johansson publicly objected to the unauthorized use of her likeness. The video's creator stated that the intention was to use the celebrities' voices to condemn West's actions. Other celebrities featured in the video have also previously spoken out against West's behavior. West's actions included a Super Bowl ad promoting a swastika-emblazoned shirt, followed by a series of antisemitic tweets, leading to his account being deactivated and his online store being shut down by Shopify. The Anti-Defamation League also condemned West's actions. | Kanye West | Video, Image | Hollywood Reporter |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Two men, Ryan Glaser and Gregory Duncan Jr., were arrested in Pointe Coupee Parish for possessing and distributing deepfakes of child sexual abuse material. Glaser, a registered sex offender, had the material on his phone, while Duncan Jr. allegedly created and distributed the deepfakes to Glaser. Glaser has a prior accusation of rape. | children | Image, Video | WBRZ |
| Feb 12, 2025 | An investigation into deepfakes depicting child pornography led to the arrest of Ryan Glaser and Gregory Duncan Jr. Glaser, a convicted sex offender, was found to have child sexual abuse material on his phone. Duncan created and distributed this material to Glaser. Glaser was charged with four counts of possession of unlawful deepfakes, and Duncan with distribution of unlawful deepfakes. | children | Image, Video | WAFB |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video created by generative AI expert Ori Bejerano depicts Jewish celebrities giving Kanye West the middle finger in response to his antisemitic remarks and actions. The video features AI renderings of several celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Scarlett Johansson, and others, wearing shirts with a Star of David and a middle finger, set to 'Hava Nagila'. | Kanye West | Video, Image | New York Daily News |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting celebrities with Jewish heritage protesting Kanye West's antisemitic remarks by wearing shirts with a middle finger, Star of David, and "KANYE." Scarlett Johansson, seemingly depicted in the video, released a statement condemning the use of AI to create such content and called for increased government regulation. | Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and others | Video | JoBlo.com |
| Feb 12, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Jewish celebrities wearing shirts that say “F*ck Kanye” with a middle finger. The video spread rapidly due to anger towards Kanye West's antisemitism. Many viewers were unaware it was AI-generated. | Jewish celebrities | Video | Kveller.com |
| Feb 12, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting celebrities condemning Kanye West's antisemitism. The video showed Johansson, Stiller, Kunis, and Spielberg wearing t-shirts with a Star of David inside a hand giving the middle finger above Kanye's name. Sandler was shown giving the middle finger with a message against antisemitism. Johansson released a statement condemning the misuse of AI and calling for stricter regulation. | Scarlett Johansson, Ben Stiller, Mila Kunis, Steven Spielberg, Adam Sandler | Video | Sky News |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Scarlett Johansson appeared in an AI-generated ad criticizing Kanye West and condemning antisemitism. The ad also featured Mark Zuckerberg, Drake, and Sam Altman, and included antisemitic imagery and the song "Hava Nagila". This prompted Johansson to call for a ban on deepfakes due to concerns about the misuse of AI to spread hate speech. | Scarlett Johansson | Video, Image | Forbes |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video using AI to place celebrities' faces onto a video expressing anti-Kanye sentiments went viral. Scarlett Johansson, one of the celebrities depicted, called for government regulation of AI to prevent such misuse. | Kanye West and Scarlett Johansson | Video | BGR |
| Feb 12, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities condemning Kanye West's antisemitism. The video featured AI versions of Johansson, Drake, Mark Zuckerberg, Mila Kunis, and Jerry Seinfeld, with Johansson's AI likeness wearing a shirt with a middle finger, Star of David, and the word "Kanye." | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Mark Zuckerberg, Mila Kunis, and Jerry Seinfeld | Video | Vulture |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on social media, showing several celebrities seemingly denouncing Kanye West's antisemitism. Scarlett Johansson confirmed it was a deepfake and does not reflect her views. The video featured celebrities wearing shirts with a Star of David and the word "KANYE." | Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities | Video | Forbes |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake image of a Pentagon explosion was spread on social media, impacting the stock market. The SEC investigated but couldn't identify the perpetrator. This incident is detailed in a DHS report and prompted numerous FOIA requests from media outlets. | US Stock Market | Image | Law Street Media |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring Drake, Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Sandler, Steven Spielberg, Mila Kunis, Ben Stiller, and David Schwimmer giving Kanye West the middle finger was created and posted on Instagram to protest Kanye West's antisemitic statements. Scarlett Johansson later criticized the use of her likeness in the video, expressing concern about the potential for AI-generated hate speech. | Kanye West | Video | TMZ |
| Feb 12, 2025 | AI-generated video depicting celebrities wearing shirts with a Star of David and a middle finger, alongside the word "Kanye", protesting Kanye West's antisemitic remarks. | Scarlett Johansson, Jack Black, Mila Kunis, Drake, Steven Spielberg | Video | Yahoo News Canada |
| Feb 12, 2025 | An Israeli team created a deepfake video of Hollywood celebrities seemingly protesting Kanye West's antisemitism. The video showed celebrities wearing shirts with a middle finger containing a Star of David and the word "KANYE." The creators used generative AI to create the video in 24 hours. The video's purpose was to convey a social message against antisemitism. Even after being revealed as a deepfake, the video continued to be shared. | Kanye West | Video | The Jerusalem Post |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Channel 4's documentary *Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape* included an AI-generated image of Scarlett Johansson in lingerie without her consent. This prompted legal concerns under the Sexual Offences Act of 2003, with debates around potential defenses such as 'reasonable excuse'. Advocacy groups criticized the network for potentially harming victims of deepfakes and hindering legislative reform efforts. Channel 4 responded that they used only celebrities widely reported as deepfake victims and blurred explicit content. | Scarlett Johansson | Image | Fstoppers |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Approximately 30 out of 20,000 applicants used deepfake technology to alter their appearance or voice during automated online interviews. The deepfakes were used for deception, aiming to improve the fluency of responses or to mask the identity of the actual applicant. | UK universities | Video, Audio | The Guardian |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video of Donald Trump urging Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine was created by Ukrainian bloggers and shared on Telegram. The video falsely depicted Trump threatening Putin with the fates of former dictators. It was initially presented as genuine by the Russian messaging platform and some news outlets. The Ukrainian bloggers behind the deepfake later admitted to creating the video to demoralize active Russians. | Vladimir Putin | Video | Voice of America |
| Feb 12, 2025 | An AI-generated video featuring AI versions of Jewish celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, David Schwimmer, and others condemning Kanye West's anti-Semitic remarks and sale of swastika T-shirts went viral. The video depicts these celebrities wearing a T-shirt mocking West's design. Scarlett Johansson and others expressed outrage over the unauthorized use of their likenesses, highlighting the potential for harm and calling for legislation. | Kanye West | Video | Daily Mail |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video circulated on social media, depicting AI-generated versions of Johansson and other celebrities opposing Kanye West. The video ended with an AI Adam Sandler flipping off the camera while the song "Hava Nagila" played, with the message "Enough is Enough" and "Join the Fight Against Antisemitism". | Scarlett Johansson, Drake, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Black, Mila Kunis, Lenny Kravitz, and others | Video | PEOPLE |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Deepfake videos of the author and other celebrities endorsing fake products and investment schemes. Court orders were obtained to remove the videos. | Author of the article and other celebrities | Video, Audio | India TV News |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Scammers used deepfakes of Brad Pitt and a TV anchor to defraud a French woman, Anne, of €830,000. | Anne (French woman) | Image, Video | TNW |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring AI-generated likenesses of Mark Zuckerberg, Scarlett Johansson, Drake, and other celebrities wearing t-shirts with a Star of David inside a middle finger emblem and "Kanye" written underneath. The video protests Kanye West's controversial statements and actions. | Kanye West | Video | NME |
| Feb 12, 2025 | A video on social media shows various Jewish celebrities giving Kanye West the middle finger. The video was created using generative AI without the celebrities' consent and spread quickly due to anger at Kanye West's antisemitism. The video depicts celebrities wearing shirts with a middle finger and Star of David, overlaid on the word "KANYE." It ends with a call to action against antisemitism. Some celebrities depicted have publicly opposed antisemitism, while others haven't. One celebrity, Scarlett Johansson, has previously sued to prevent AI-generated likeness use. | Kanye West and various Jewish celebrities | Video | JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Three videos circulating online falsely depicted Monalisa Bhosle. Two videos used footage of Tanu Rawat with Bhosle's face superimposed, and one used footage of Wamiqa Gabbi. The videos were shared on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X. AI detection tools confirmed the videos as deepfakes. | Monalisa Bhosle | Video | NDTV |
| Feb 11, 2025 | A security engineer at Vidoc Security Lab encountered two separate incidents involving deepfake job applicants. Both applicants used AI-based tools to alter their appearance during video interviews, displaying inconsistencies such as glitchy video, unnatural movements, and answers seemingly generated by ChatGPT. The applicants claimed to be from Poland and Serbia, respectively, but both had Asian accents. The security engineer suspects the incidents are part of a larger North Korea-style scam to steal sensitive information. | Vidoc Security Lab | Video | The Register |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Tens of thousands of deepfake porn images are produced weekly, many targeting celebrities and ordinary women. Sharing these images is a criminal offense under the 2023 Online Safety Act, but creating them is not. A private member's bill introduced by Tory peer Charlotte Owen aimed to ban the creation of such images without consent. The government initially promised to incorporate the bill's provisions into the data bill, but significantly weakened the proposed penalties. Instead of prison time, the government proposed only fines for creating deepfake porn, regardless of the number of offenses. They also added a "reasonable excuse" defense, despite no one being able to identify a valid excuse. | celebrities and ordinary women | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Feb 11, 2025 | John Cairns, grieving the loss of his father, was scammed out of \u00a33,250 through a deepfake video on Facebook that appeared to show Elon Musk endorsing an AI trading platform called Quantum AI. The scammers used MetaTrader 5 and AnyDesk to manipulate his investments, initially showing false profits before making it impossible to withdraw funds. Cairns' daughter's suspicion led to the discovery of the scam. | John Cairns | Video | IBTimes UK |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A deepfake video of Patrick Mahomes making self-deprecating remarks after the Chiefs' Super Bowl LVII loss went viral on TikTok and YouTube, accumulating millions of views. The video, clearly labeled as AI-generated, used Parrot AI. While the creator's intent was comedic, the video's realism highlights the potential for deepfakes to deceive viewers. | Patrick Mahomes | Video | CNET |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A 61-year-old man, John Cairns, lost \u00a33,250 to a deepfake scam using an AI-generated video of Elon Musk promoting an AI trading platform. Cairns, grieving the loss of his father, invested his inheritance after seeing the Facebook advertisement. He was then contacted by an 'account manager' who guided him through transactions on MetaTrader 5, eventually persuading him to invest more money. After initially withdrawing a small profit, he was prevented from withdrawing larger sums. His daughter's skepticism and online research revealed the scam. | John Cairns | Video | Daily Mail |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A video statement by President Touadéra promoting a memecoin, $CAR, was flagged by deepfake detection models as potentially AI-generated, with one model estimating an 82% likelihood. Concerns arose about the authenticity of the video and the legitimacy of the coin launch. | Faustin-Archange Touadéra | Video | The Shib Daily |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A deepfake video of President Prabowo Subianto and other officials was used on Instagram (@indoberbagi2025) to defraud victims in a fake social assistance program. Approximately 100 victims across 20 provinces were defrauded of Rp 65 million by December 2024. | President Prabowo Subianto and other officials | Video | Tempo.co English |
| Feb 10, 2025 | The president's announcement video of a new meme coin was flagged as a potential deepfake. The project's X account was suspended, and its domain was taken offline due to "abusive service". | Central African Republic (CAR) and its president, Touadéra | Video | Dig Watch Updates |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Announcement of a national meme coin, CAR, by the President of the Central African Republic via his official X account, accompanied by a video that was flagged by some deepfake detection tools as potentially deepfake. Further suspicion due to irregularities in domain registration and the subsequent suspension of the X account promoting the coin. Accusations of a rug pull and concerns about the coin's distribution added to the uncertainty. | Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic | Video | Mitrade |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A video announcing the launch of the official CAR meme coin on February 10th raised concerns about its authenticity due to conflicting results from deepfake detection tools. Further suspicion stemmed from irregularities in the domain registration, the suspension of the meme coin's official X account, the coin's launch on the Solana-based Pump.fun platform, its rapid market cap, reports of identical tokens, and concerns about concentrated ownership of tokens. | Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic | Video | BeInCrypto |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Hong Kong residents lost approximately HK$200 million (US$25.5 million) to scams within a single week, using AI voice cloning to impersonate relatives and trick victims into transferring money. | Hong Kong residents | Audio | South China Morning Post |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Monalisa Bhonsale, a 16-year-old who recently went viral, were created and spread online. One video shows a woman dancing in a red dress, and another shows a woman posing for paparazzi. Both were confirmed as deepfakes using AI face-swap technology. The creator of the dancing video admitted to using a face-swap AI feature. | Monalisa Bhonsale | Video, Image | The Quint |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A deepfake video of Sudha Murty endorsing an investment platform is circulating on social media. Analysis by Contrails.ai and Hive Moderation confirmed the video is a deepfake using AI to manipulate audio and video, including a voice clone and lip-sync techniques. The link in the deepfake redirects to a fake Times of India article about Elon Musk. | Sudha Murty | Image, Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Feb 10, 2025 | A Hong Kong merchant lost approximately US\$18.5 million in a deepfake scam where the perpetrator used AI-generated voice messages via WhatsApp to impersonate a mainland Chinese company's financial manager and convince the victim to transfer funds for cryptocurrency mining equipment. | Hong Kong merchant | Audio | Bangkok Post |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Deepfake allegations arose concerning a video announcement of a new memecoin by the president of the Central African Republic. AI detection tools gave conflicting results regarding the video's authenticity, with some showing high probability of AI generation. The official X account and website were suspended shortly after the announcement, raising concerns about a potential scam. | Central African Republic President Touadéra | Video | crypto.news |
| Feb 09, 2025 | A deepfake video of Rihanna discussing her expensive purchases appeared on Instagram. Rihanna denied that it was her voice. Fans also noted that the tone and style of speech were unlike her usual manner. | Rihanna | Video, Audio | Hot97 - Hip Hop & R&B News |
| Feb 09, 2025 | Simone Simms, owner of an art gallery in Nottingham, was scammed out of £30,000 after falling victim to a deepfake of Pierce Brosnan. The scammers used AI to create convincing images and voice notes of Brosnan to arrange a fake exhibition, leading Simms to sell £20,000 in tickets before the scam was revealed. The deepfake was used in video calls and Telegram messages. | Simone Simms | Image, Audio | Daily Mail |
| Feb 08, 2025 | A friend, Andrew Hayler, created and shared deepfake pornographic images and videos of Hannah Grundy and approximately 60 other women, primarily from Sydney, on a website titled "The Destruction of Hannah." The images were sourced from victims' private social media. Hayler was charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offense. The case set a legal precedent in Australia due to the lack of specific legislation regarding deepfake pornography at the time. | Hannah Grundy and approximately 60 other women | Image, Video | BBC.com |
| Feb 07, 2025 | A deepfake audio of Rihanna boasting about her expensive possessions circulated on Instagram. The AI-generated audio made it sound like Rihanna was listing her Beverly Hills mansion, London rental house, and private jet. Rihanna herself commented on the video, calling out the creator. This isn't the first instance of AI-generated audio featuring Rihanna; a fake Rihanna duet with Bad Bunny also circulated online in 2023. The video's creators did not initially disclose the use of AI but confirmed it in the comments after being questioned. | Rihanna | Audio | Billboard |
| Feb 07, 2025 | A five-second AI-generated video falsely claiming to show the Ethiopian army parading ballistic missiles was shared on Facebook. The video's artificial nature was revealed by unnatural faces on missile carriers, an AI content detector, and tracing it back to a TikTok user who identified it as an AI video with a watermark that was removed in the Facebook post. | Ethiopian Army | Video | Yahoo! Voices |
| Feb 07, 2025 | Kayla Medeiros' ex-boyfriend allegedly created nude AI-generated images of her using clothed photos. The incident was reported to the police, but there are currently no laws addressing this issue in Nebraska. Nebraska State Senator Wendy Deboer proposed LB 371 to allow victims to pursue civil recovery for shared deepfake images. | Kayla Medeiros | Image | KETV Omaha |
| Feb 07, 2025 | An Omaha woman's ex-boyfriend allegedly used AI to create nude photos of her. A local non-profit is advocating for legislation. | Omaha woman | Image | Yahoo! Voices |
| Feb 06, 2025 | Deepfake video of executives resulted in a $25 million loss. The deepfake was created in under an hour using readily available tools. This was classified as technology-enhanced social engineering, highlighting the importance of understanding data access, security, and trust within organizations. | Arup executives | Video | Biometric Update |
| Feb 06, 2025 | 50 Cent created and shared deepfake videos of himself and Lil Meech reenacting a scene from the movie *Lean On Me*, and another of Cam'ron and Jim Jones. These were part of a public dispute stemming from text messages 50 Cent shared. | Lil Meech and Cam'ron and Jim Jones | Video | Yahoo Entertainment |
| Feb 04, 2025 | A deepfake video of Cristiano Ronaldo praising Virat Kohli was shared with R. Madhavan, who believed it to be real and shared it with Anushka Sharma. Anushka Sharma later revealed that the video was AI-generated. | R. Madhavan | Video | News18 |
| Feb 04, 2025 | A deepfake video went viral on social media, showing comedian Samay Raina joking with Amitabh Bachchan on the show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). The joke about Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha did not appear in the actual episode. AI detection tools confirmed the video and audio as deepfakes. | Amitabh Bachchan and Samay Raina | Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Feb 03, 2025 | Russian-produced deepfake videos aim to negatively influence public opinion of Ukraine in allied countries by targeting Ukrainian refugees. The videos are not yet viral but their reach is growing. The exact impact is difficult to measure. | Ukrainian refugees and public opinion in allied countries | Video | Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
| Feb 03, 2025 | AI-generated videos featuring likenesses of Donald Trump and Elon Musk were used to defraud supporters into purchasing worthless "Golden Eagles" coins. Videos promised buyers they would become "Trump-made millionaires" by trading the coins at Bank of America for large sums. One victim invested $2,500 hoping for a $35 million return. The coins were found to be fake. | Donald Trump supporters | Video | NewsBreak |
| Feb 03, 2025 | AI-generated videos of Donald Trump and Elon Musk were used to defraud supporters into buying worthless Golden Eagles coins, promising substantial returns. One victim invested \$2,500 believing he could exchange coins for \$110,000 each. The coins were confirmed to be nickel, not gold. This follows a pattern of Trump supporters losing money on similar schemes. | Supporters of Donald Trump and Elon Musk | Video | The Independent |
| Feb 03, 2025 | A deepfake audio of Donald Trump's message, "make peace or die", was created and shared. This deepfake fooled some Russians and was used by a Russian lawmaker to accuse Trump of using scare tactics to pressure Putin into peace talks with Ukraine. | Vladimir Putin | Audio | VOA Asia |
| Feb 03, 2025 | A Channel 4 documentary, *Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape*, included AI-generated footage seemingly depicting Scarlett Johansson in lingerie. Legal experts suggest this may violate the U.K.'s Sexual Offences Act 2003, which prohibits the non-consensual distribution of computer-generated images showing someone in underwear. | Scarlett Johansson | Video | PetaPixel |
| Feb 03, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring Senator Raffy Tulfo and Dr. Willie Ong falsely claims a seven-hour cure for diabetes. The video, posted on Facebook, has garnered significant views. Deepware and Resemble Detect, deepfake detection tools, independently flagged both the video and audio as AI-manipulated. The claim that diabetes is caused by a virus contracted from saltwater and that it can be cured in seven hours is false. | Senator Raffy Tulfo and Dr. Willie Ong | Video, Audio | Rappler |
| Jan 30, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting former U.S. President Donald Trump threatening Russian President Vladimir Putin went viral on Telegram. Initially presented as genuine footage from a Russian state television channel, the video was later admitted to be a deepfake created by Ukrainian bloggers to demoralize Russians. The deepfake's impact is evidenced by its spread and use by a Russian State Duma member to accuse Trump. | Vladimir Putin and Russians | Video | VOA Asia |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Vicky Pattison created deepfake videos of herself and her husband for a Channel 4 documentary to raise awareness about deepfake pornography. The deepfakes were made using actors who were digitally replaced with Pattison and her husband's faces. The video was uploaded to X (formerly Twitter). The documentary aimed to highlight the dangers of deepfakes and their disproportionate impact on women but faced criticism for potentially showing people how to create deepfakes and being disrespectful to victims. | Vicky Pattison and her husband | Video | Daily Mail |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A deepfake sex tape of Vicky Pattison was created and released as part of a Channel 4 documentary to raise awareness about deepfakes and their impact on victims. The video superimposed Pattison's face onto another actress's body. | Vicky Pattison | Video | Tyla |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A crime syndicate operating on Telegram, using Chinese communication, launched coordinated attacks targeting African fintechs and companies in Germany and Singapore using deepfake videos. These attacks involved impersonating individuals. The attacks were curbed following intervention by the FBI and African law enforcement after being notified by Smile ID. Deepfakes accounted for 7% of global identity fraud attempts, a fourfold increase from 2023, with Africa experiencing one of the largest regional increases after the Middle East. | African fintechs and companies in Germany and Singapore | Video | Semafor |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A deepfake video appeared to show Carín León kissing Espinoza Paz, leading to rumors about León's sexuality. León addressed the rumors humorously, stating he had 'become gay' three days prior and expressing support for the LGBTQ+ community. The deepfake video increased engagement with his music, particularly his song 'De Compas'. | Carín León | Video | EDGE Media Network |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A 3-minute 27-second video shared by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on X (formerly Twitter) on January 27, 2025, falsely claimed to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence. Analysis revealed the video to be AI-generated, exhibiting unnatural textures, lack of detail, visual anomalies, and a Sora watermark. AI-content detection tools confirmed its likely AI-generation. | Narendra Modi | Video | Newschecker |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Vicky Pattison, in her Channel 4 show "My Deepfake Sex Tape," created a consensual deepfake video of herself to demonstrate the issue of non-consensual deepfake pornography. The show also included interviews with victims of non-consensual deepfakes. | Vicky Pattison | Video | The Guardian |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A documentary used a deepfake of Vicky Pattison, a British television personality, to illustrate the spread of online adult content. This sparked controversy due to its ethical implications and lack of compassion, raising concerns about the use of deepfakes in online image abuse. | Vicky Pattison | Video, Image | Evening Standard |
| Jan 29, 2025 | A deepfake video featuring Senator Raffy Tulfo interviewing cardiologist Willie Ong falsely claims the existence of a new hypertension cure. The video, which has garnered significant views, advises viewers against purchasing losartan and promotes a supposed cure developed by top Filipino cardiologists, including Ong, who allegedly partnered with the national government. Deepfake detection tool Sensity flagged the video as suspicious with a 98% confidence level in pixel analysis and a 99% confidence rate in voice analysis, noting inconsistencies between mouth movements and audio. The original video of Ong shows him discussing urinary tract infections, not a hypertension cure. The deepfake's script is similar to other AI-manipulated clips featuring Ong. | Cardiologist Willie Ong | Video, Audio | Rappler |
| Jan 28, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting TXT member Yeonjun in an intimate situation with a woman has gone viral. The AI-generated video shows Yeonjun kissing an unknown woman. | TXT member Yeonjun | Video | News18 |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Investigative reporter Patrizia Schlosser was targeted with deepfake pornography on the website MrDeepFakes. The site hosts tens of thousands of videos and images, has close to 650,000 members, and receives millions of visits a month. The content has been viewed almost two billion times. The site's administrators have remained anonymous, using methods like cryptocurrency payments and unverifiable PayPal accounts to obscure ownership. The site advertised apps like Deepswap, which allows users to create deepfake photos and videos. Deepswap was linked to companies with connections to Nexgo, a publicly traded Chinese fintech company. Concerns exist about Nexgo's potential involvement due to Chinese laws prohibiting deepfakes and the complex corporate structure used. | Patrizia Schlosser | Image, Video | bellingcat |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Vicky Pattison released a deepfake sex tape of herself to raise awareness about deepfake porn and its impact on women. The video was released ahead of her Channel 4 documentary, *Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape*. The documentary aims to demonstrate how easily deepfakes are created and spread online, and to highlight the difficulties of removing such content. | Vicky Pattison | Video | LADbible |
| Jan 28, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Barron Trump as unusually tall circulated on social media platforms. Fact Crescendo's investigation confirmed the video was AI-generated and created by a user known for satirical content. The video was deemed false, and the actual footage showed Barron Trump's height to be 2.01 meters. | Barron Trump | Video | Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka |
| Jan 28, 2025 | AI-manipulated videos of Monica Geingos were used in investment scams across various social media platforms. The deepfakes were convincingly realistic. | Monica Geingos, former First Lady of Namibia | Video | Forbes Africa |
| Jan 27, 2025 | A documentary used an AI-generated explicit video of Vicky Pattison to raise awareness about deepfake pornography. This has been criticized by abuse survivors who fear it could increase the spread of such material and retraumatize victims. | Vicky Pattison | Video | indy100 |
| Jan 27, 2025 | In July 2024, a Ferrari executive received WhatsApp messages seemingly from CEO Benedetto Vigna, regarding a significant acquisition and urging the executive to sign an NDA. The messages included a profile picture of Vigna and mimicked his accent. Inconsistencies in tone during a follow-up call aroused suspicion, and a question only Vigna would know exposed the scammer. This prevented potential financial loss and reputational damage. | Ferrari executive | Audio, Image | MIT Sloan Management Review |
| Jan 26, 2025 | ElevenLabs used a cloned voice of the late French actor Alain Dorval in a movie without the approval of his daughter, Aurore Bergé, who is also the Minister for Sexual Equality in France. Bergé stated that neither she nor her father would have consented to the use of his voice in this manner. | Alain Dorval | Audio | SiliconANGLE News |
| Jan 25, 2025 | AI-generated deepfakes targeting Ukrainian refugees in the US and Denmark, altering their statements and images with fabricated voiceovers to portray them negatively. Stolen footage from reputable media was used. Similar tactics were used against Western journalists. One X post with fabricated videos received over 55,000 views. | Ukrainian refugees and Western journalists | Video, Audio | VOA Asia |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Vicky Pattison released a deepfake sex tape of herself for a documentary to raise awareness about deepfakes and their impact. The documentary also features other victims of deepfake pornography. | Vicky Pattison and others | Video | Women's Health UK |
| Jan 24, 2025 | A scammer impersonated Elon Musk using deepfake technology in video chats and on Threads to convince a woman to send over $60,000 via gift cards. The scammer promised a Tesla and cash but never delivered. Authorities could not recover the funds. | A woman in Lafayette, Louisiana | Video, Audio | VnExpress International |
| Jan 24, 2025 | A 54-year-old school teacher from West Bengal was arrested for her alleged involvement in a ₹1.05 crore online scam. She claims she was duped by someone posing as a popular Bollywood musician via a deepfake video call. The fraudster gained her trust and convinced her to hand over her bank account credentials. | Sulapa Mishra | Video, Audio | The Hindu |
| Jan 23, 2025 | A Bengaluru-based chartered accountant lost Rs 23.20 lakh in a stock investment scam using deepfake videos of Mukesh Ambani, Narayana Murthy, and Sudha Murty. The victim saw the videos on Facebook on October 2, 2024, submitted personal details through a link, and made several transfers totaling Rs 23.20 lakh before realizing the scam. A police case was registered on January 13, 2025. | B Hari | Video | Deccan Herald |
| Jan 23, 2025 | A deepfake pornographic video of Cara Hunter, a Stormont politician, was created and circulated on WhatsApp and social media before the 2022 Stormont elections. The PSNI was unable to pursue a criminal investigation due to insufficient legislation and resources. | Cara Hunter | Video | BBC.com |
| Jan 23, 2025 | An AI-generated video depicts Bayern Munich player Thomas Muller playing for rival club RB Leipzig, causing concern among Bayern fans. The video's realism highlights the potential for deepfakes to spread misinformation. | Bayern Munich fans | Video | Yahoo Sports |
| Jan 23, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Tony Khan criticizing AEW wrestler Britt Baker during a call with TBS executives. The video is AI-generated and intended to be malicious, aiming to capitalize on Baker's absence from AEW television. | Tony Khan and Britt Baker | Video | WhatCulture |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Starship Entertainment reposted deepfake content of IVE’s Yujin on Weibo. The apology follows the reposting of manipulated content depicting Yujin. | IVE’s Yujin | Image, Video | Asian Junkie |
| Jan 22, 2025 | A finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25 million after deepfake fraudsters impersonated the company’s chief during a video call. | multinational firm in Hong Kong | Video, Audio | AiThority |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Scammers cloned a CEO's voice to call the firm's finance chief and request a large transfer. Fraudsters also posed as fake customers to gain access to company systems. | Truecaller AB and other companies | Audio | Bloomberg |
| Jan 21, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely depicted Bennett making racist and offensive remarks. The video was shared to a lawyer's 200,000+ social media followers, resulting in Bennett facing abuse and causing her to take two weeks off work for safety reasons. Strangers harassed her family. The lawyer paid substantial damages and costs. The SRA is investigating the lawyer's behavior, while the creator of the deepfake video remains unknown. | Cheryl Bennett | Video | Legal Cheek |
| Jan 21, 2025 | British reality TV star Vicky Pattison created and released a deepfake pornography video of herself to raise awareness about non-consensual deepfake pornography and its spread on social media. The goal was to study how such content spreads and how to get it removed. | Vicky Pattison | Video | Connected to India |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Vicky Pattison created a deepfake sex tape of herself for a Channel 4 documentary to explore the impact of deepfake porn on women. The video was released on social media to study its spread and removal. | Vicky Pattison | Video | TV Zone |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Vicky Pattison, a British television personality, will release a deepfake pornography video of herself as part of a Channel 4 documentary. The video will be used to highlight the issue of deepfakes and their impact on women. The documentary also features interviews with other victims, including Northern Ireland MLA Cara Hunter and Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman. | Vicky Pattison | Video | Yahoo! Voices |
| Jan 20, 2025 | A French woman was scammed out of $850,000 by a romance scammer who used AI-generated images of Brad Pitt. The scammer initially posed as Pitt's mother before contacting the victim via Facebook messenger and text, eventually convincing her to divorce her husband. The scammer, posing as Pitt, requested money, citing financial woes and cancer treatment, using AI-manipulated images to support their claims. | French woman | Image | Newsweek |
| Jan 19, 2025 | A 27-year-old PE teacher, Cheryl Bennett, was targeted by a deepfake video that falsely portrayed her using racial slurs. The video, manipulated from CCTV footage showing her delivering political leaflets, was posted by a local politician. The video resulted in over 800 complaints, forcing her to take leave from her job. Investigations confirmed the video was manipulated. The perpetrator settled with Bennett and paid substantial damages. | Cheryl Bennett | Video, Audio | Daily Mail |
| Jan 18, 2025 | A deceptively edited video made it appear as though Cheryl Bennett, a teacher and volunteer delivering leaflets for a local election candidate, made racist remarks to a homeowner. The video was shared on social media, garnering millions of views, leading to threats, abuse, and calls for her dismissal. Police investigated but determined the video was fabricated. The individual who created the video remains unknown. Akhmed Yakoob, who shared the video, faced legal action, paid damages, and agreed to remove the video, but did not admit to creating it. | Cheryl Bennett | Video | The Times |
| Jan 18, 2025 | A woman in France was scammed out of \u0024850,000 after scammers used AI-generated fake images of actor Brad Pitt to trick her. | A woman in France | Image | CNN |
| Jan 17, 2025 | In 2020, a scammer used AI to clone the voice of Gary Schildhorn's son, Brett, to convince Schildhorn to send $9,000 for his son's supposed bail money. Brett was able to contact his father via FaceTime before the money was sent, revealing the scam. | Gary Schildhorn | Audio | Asbury Park Press |
| Jan 17, 2025 | An Arup employee in Hong Kong transferred \$25 million based on a deepfake video call. This is used as an example of deepfake fraud in banking, with a 393% increase in phishing attacks in finance and insurance sectors reported. | Arup employee in Hong Kong | Audio, Video | Biometric Update |
| Jan 17, 2025 | AI-generated nude images and videos of approximately 60 students were created and distributed by two teenage boys. The images were created using readily available AI tools and sourced from social media. The boys were charged with multiple offenses, including sexual abuse of children and possession of child pornography. The incident caused significant distress among victims, leading to school avoidance, eating disorders, and the need for counseling. The school's top leadership stepped aside after parents filed a lawsuit. | Students at a Pennsylvania school | Image, Video | NonStop Local Billings |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Two teenage boys were charged with creating and distributing 347 AI-generated nude images and videos of approximately 60 students, mostly female and under 18, on Discord. The images were allegedly created using readily available AI apps and photos from the school's Instagram page or FaceTime calls. The school's top leadership stepped aside after a lawsuit for failing to report the activity. | Students at Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania | Image, Video | youralaskalink |
| Jan 17, 2025 | In August 2024, an Indonesian financial institution experienced over 1,100 instances of deepfake fraud within its mobile app. Attackers used manipulated IDs to bypass biometric verification, resulting in estimated losses of US \$138.5 million over three months. | Indonesian financial institution | Image, Video, Audio | Frontier Enterprise |
| Jan 16, 2025 | A French woman, Anne, was scammed out of $850,000 by an individual who used AI-generated images and impersonated Brad Pitt and his mother. The scammer claimed Pitt needed a kidney transplant and financial assistance, maintaining the ruse over a year-long online relationship. The scam was discovered when Anne saw pictures of the real Brad Pitt with his girlfriend. | Anne (French woman) | Image | HELLO! |
| Jan 16, 2025 | A deepfake video of Kamala Harris making disparaging remarks about Joe Biden was shared on X, garnering 131 million views. AI-generated images depicting the Hollywood sign engulfed in flames and firefighters using handbags to fight fires were spread on social media. | Kamala Harris and Joe Biden | Video, Image | AfroTech |
| Jan 16, 2025 | fraudsters stole $35 million using forged emails and deepfake audio | a UAE company | Audio | Built In |
| Jan 16, 2025 | A 53-year-old woman, Anne, was defrauded of €830,000 over 18 months by scammers who used AI-generated deepfakes of Brad Pitt to manipulate her. The scammers used love bombing and a fabricated story about Pitt needing kidney treatment. The deepfakes included images of Pitt in a hospital bed. The scam led Anne to divorce her husband. Brad Pitt's spokesperson confirmed the incident. | Anne (53-year-old woman) | Image, Video | Creative Bloq |
| Jan 16, 2025 | A deepfake porn video featuring TikTok influencer Charli D'Amelio was viewed over 8,200 times on a deepfake pornography site. The video's creator, "DeepWorld23," claimed to have used a deepfake model from GitHub. Videos featuring celebrities like Emma Watson and Taylor Swift have also been created using open-source models from GitHub. | Charli D'Amelio, Emma Watson, Taylor Swift | Video | WIRED |
| Jan 16, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely claimed Taylor Swift called the Los Angeles wildfire revenge for the Gaza bombing. The deepfake manipulated audio from a previous appearance on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* (November 12, 2021) and added it to video footage of a wildfire that started after October 7, 2023. Analysis confirmed the audio manipulation. | Taylor Swift | Audio, Video | Vishvas News English |
| Jan 16, 2025 | ElevenLabs cloned the voice of deceased French actor Alain Dorval without his family's full consent, using AI to recreate his voice for the French dub of the film *Armor*. His daughter, Aurore Bergé, criticized the company for proceeding without her approval, despite an agreement that included final approval rights. ElevenLabs later claimed the project was intended as a tribute, with the family retaining control. | Alain Dorval | Audio | The Independent |
| Jan 16, 2025 | AI-generated images and videos falsely depicting the Hollywood Sign engulfed in flames went viral on social media platforms like Instagram and X. McAfee researchers confirmed these images as deepfakes, tracing many to Google's Gemini AI image generation platform. The deepfakes were easily created and spread rapidly, reaching over a million views within 24 hours. The Hollywood Sign remains undamaged. | Hollywood Sign | Image, Video | Times Now |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Starship Entertainment shared a deepfake image of An Yu-jin on its Chinese social media account due to employee negligence. The responsible employee received disciplinary action and was removed. The incident caused backlash from fans and led IVE to drop a prerelease track from their album. | An Yu-jin (IVE) | Image | 코리아타임스 |
| Jan 15, 2025 | A French woman was scammed of Rs 8 crore (approximately $970,000 USD) by someone using a deepfake of Brad Pitt to develop a romantic relationship with the victim before executing the scam. | French woman | Audio, Video | India Today |
| Jan 15, 2025 | A 53-year-old woman named Anne was scammed out of €830,000 by individuals posing as actor Brad Pitt using AI deepfakes. The scammers used AI-generated videos and photos to convince Anne she was in a relationship with Pitt, eventually persuading her to send them large sums of money for a supposed kidney cancer operation. The initial contact was an Instagram message from someone claiming to be Brad Pitt's mother. After the broadcast of Anne's story, which was viewed by 2.95 million people, she faced a significant wave of online harassment. | Anne (53-year-old woman) | Image, Video | The Connexion |
| Jan 15, 2025 | A deepfake video of Taylor Swift falsely claiming that the California wildfires were "divine retribution" for the situation in Gaza went viral. The audio was AI-generated and spliced onto real video footage from a 2021 interview. No credible sources corroborate Taylor Swift making such a statement. | Taylor Swift | Video, Audio | The Quint |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Starship Entertainment, IVE's agency, reposted deepfake content on its official Chinese Weibo account. The deepfake content maliciously edited IVE members Jang Won Young and An Yu Jin, with An Yu Jin being the primary target. Following fan outrage, Starship apologized on January 15th and disciplined the responsible staff member. | IVE’s An Yu Jin and Jang Won Young | Image, Video | soompi |
| Jan 15, 2025 | A deepfake video advertisement featuring Dr. Tony Leachon promoting a fake prostatitis cure circulated on Facebook. The video, mimicking an ANC news format, used footage from a 2019 interview about hypertension. Leachon's voice was cloned and his mouth movements manipulated to promote a fraudulent product and direct viewers to a fake website (AKELAHORMESCLADE.FUN). | Dr. Antonio "Tony" Leachon | Video, Audio | VERA Files |
| Jan 14, 2025 | A scammer used AI-generated images and videos of Brad Pitt and his mother to convince Anne to transfer \$1.2 million to a Turkish bank account under the false pretense that Pitt needed the money for kidney cancer treatment. The scam was revealed after Anne appeared on French TV, and the program was later pulled due to online backlash. Similar scams have targeted others, and this is not the first such deepfake scam involving Brad Pitt. | Anne, a 53-year-old French interior designer | Image, Video | National Post |
| Jan 14, 2025 | The daughter of deceased French voice actor Alain Dorval objected to the use of AI to recreate his voice in Sylvester Stallone's film *Armor*. She claims that an agreement was broken, stating that the AI-generated voice, created by ElevenLabs, was used without her permission despite only agreeing to a trial. She insists that neither she nor her mother approved the final product, deeming the quality unacceptable and contrary to her father's wishes. | Alain Dorval | Audio | The Times |
| Jan 14, 2025 | In 2019, fraudsters used an AI voice clone of a German energy boss to scam a UK subsidiary CEO out of €220,000. The funds were rerouted through Hungary and Mexico. A similar incident occurred in 2020 where an AI voice clone and fake emails were used to trick a UAE bank manager into transferring $35 million. In February 2024, an employee at Arup's Hong Kong office was tricked by an AI-powered deepfake video call into sending £20 million to a criminal gang. Another case involved a deepfake of Taylor Swift used in a social media advertisement to collect personal information. | Multiple targets including a German energy boss, a UK subsidiary CEO, a UAE bank manager, an employee at Arup's Hong Kong office | Audio, Video, Image | economia |
| Jan 14, 2025 | A 77-year-old retired lecturer from Edinburgh, Nikki MacLeod, lost £17,000 in a romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos of a fictitious woman, "Alla Morgan." The scammer, posing as "Alla Morgan," built trust by sending MacLeod videos, documents, and a fake bank account. The scam involved multiple requests for money, culminating in an attempt to transfer £65,000. MacLeod recovered £7,000 but lost most of the money sent via PayPal. Police Scotland are investigating. | Nikki MacLeod | Image, Video | STV News |
| Jan 14, 2025 | A deepfake video depicting Northern Ireland MLA Cara Hunter in pornographic activity was widely shared online in April 2022, causing significant distress and impacting her political career. Ms. Hunter reported the incident to the police, but they lacked the technology to trace the video's origin. The incident prompted calls for stricter legislation against deepfakes and online abuse. | Cara Hunter | Video | The Independent |
| Jan 14, 2025 | A deepfake of a chief financial officer (CFO) tricked a Hong Kong financial analyst into wiring $25 million. The attack used readily available tools like Deep-Live-Cam, DeepFaceLive, Descript, and ElevenLabs. | Hong Kong financial analyst | Audio, Video | Dark Reading |
| Jan 14, 2025 | A former North Las Vegas mayor, John Lee, is suing an opponent for allegedly creating a deepfake audio of him making inappropriate statements. | John Lee, former North Las Vegas mayor | Audio | Las Vegas Sun |
| Jan 14, 2025 | Sharon Lavy, a Jewish flight attendant, sued Delta Airlines for discrimination and harassment, claiming retaliation after reporting antisemitism and support for Hamas among coworkers. Delta allegedly used "ambush tactics," including a deepfake video showing Lavy on a flight she wasn't trained for, along with other false accusations to justify her firing. A colleague, Roey Segev, filed a similar lawsuit. | Sharon Lavy | Video | VINNews |
| Jan 13, 2025 | A Tier-1 global bank used Reality Defender to protect its high-net-worth clients from AI-driven impersonation attempts. The system detected deepfake threats in real-time with 99.99% accuracy, integrated seamlessly into existing systems, and protected client trust while scaling across global operations. | high-net-worth clients of a Tier-1 global bank | Audio | Biometric Update |
| Jan 13, 2025 | A deepfake parody video of Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign ad was created by Christopher Kohls and shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk. This video was used in a lawsuit challenging Minnesota's deepfake law. The Attorney General's expert witness used AI-generated false information in their testimony, causing the judge to reject the evidence and severely damaging their credibility. | Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison | Video | Reuters |
| Jan 13, 2025 | A Hong Kong finance worker transferred $25 million to fraudsters after a video conference with what he thought were senior officers. Police later revealed all participants in the video conference were fake deepfakes. | Hong Kong finance worker | Video | Law.com |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Deepfake videos were used to spread false narratives, tarnish reputations, and harass women in politics and journalism during elections in Ghana (2020), and planned for Namibia and Senegal (2024). | Women in politics and journalism in Africa (Ghana, Namibia, Senegal) | Video | CIO Africa |
| Jan 12, 2025 | A Jewish American flight attendant, Sharon Lavy, filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines, alleging that Delta created and used a deepfake video of her to retaliate against her for reporting antisemitic incidents. The deepfake appeared to show Lavy working on an aircraft type she was not trained to operate. Lavy also alleges other fabricated accusations, such as improperly eating a meal, using her cellphone at prohibited times, and assaulting a coworker. | Sharon Lavy | Video | View from the Wing |
| Jan 12, 2025 | Jodie received an anonymous email with links to a pornographic website containing hundreds of her photos and comments. The poster solicited others to create sexually explicit deepfakes using her images from her private Instagram. Hundreds of synthetic images and videos depicting her in non-consensual sexual situations were created and shared online. This is part of a growing trend of synthetic, sexually explicit content being traded online. The UK government is cracking down on this, but soliciting deepfakes isn't currently illegal. | Jodie | Image, Video | The Guardian |
| Jan 12, 2025 | The provided text mentions several deepfake incidents. One involved a CFO being impersonated via video resulting in a $25 million loss. Another involved a deepfake audio recording of a school principal containing racist and antisemitic remarks. Deepfake images were also used for cyberbullying. A deepfake audio recording of Joe Biden prompted a civil lawsuit and criminal charges. These are examples used to illustrate the rise of deepfakes and the need for new laws, not descriptions of a single, specific, documented incident. | multiple targets including a CFO, school principal, and Joe Biden | Audio, Image, Video | Insurance Journal |
| Jan 11, 2025 | Scammers impersonated Johnny Depp using AI deepfakes on social media to extort money from fans. The deepfakes mimicked Depp's voice and appearance to create fake accounts. | Johnny Depp and his fans | Image, Video, Audio | Yahoo! Voices |
| Jan 11, 2025 | Morphed images of Bollywood celebrities like Rashmika Mandanna, Alia Bhatt, and Katrina Kaif circulated widely on social media. An individual, Sanket (name changed), was blackmailed using deepfake intimate images after clicking on a malicious advertisement. 84% of social media influencers have reportedly fallen victim to deepfake pornography. | Bollywood celebrities and ordinary individuals in India | Image, Video | The Indian Express |
| Jan 10, 2025 | AI-generated nude images of high school students were disseminated on social media. | high school students in Westfield, New Jersey | Image | GoErie.com |
| Jan 10, 2025 | The author of the article was deepfaked by their best friend in 2021. The deepfake involved the creation of realistic images or videos making it appear as though the victim was engaging in intimate or sexual acts without their consent. The perpetrator solicited the creation of the deepfakes. This event prompted the author to advocate for stronger legislation to protect victims of deepfake abuse. | Author of the article | Image, Video | GLAMOUR UK |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Deepfake images of IVE members Jang Wonyoung and An Yujin with malicious captions were reposted on Starship Entertainment's official Weibo account before being deleted. Starship Entertainment apologized, stating it was an accident during a report of malicious posts. Fans remain unsatisfied and demand further investigation. | IVE members Jang Wonyoung and An Yujin | Image | PINKVILLA |
| Jan 09, 2025 | Deepfake videos of Dr. Naresh Trehan giving medical advice on urology were created using AI, photoshopping, and voice-over techniques. The videos falsely portrayed Dr. Trehan endorsing natural remedies for prostatitis and erectile dysfunction. They were viewed over 1.1 million times before being taken down by court order. | Dr. Naresh Trehan | Video, Audio | The Indian Express |
| Jan 09, 2025 | A high school senior in Sydney, Australia allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of female students using images from social media. Fake social media profiles were also created. Parents and students were notified. Police launched an investigation on January 6th. The NSW Department of Education is working with police and will take appropriate action. The incident is considered illegal and abhorrent. A similar incident occurred in Victoria in June 2022. | female students at a Sydney high school | Image, Video | New York Post |
| Jan 09, 2025 | Jodie's best friend, Alex Woolf, created and distributed deepfake images and videos of her on dating and porn websites using photos from her social media. Woolf was prosecuted and received a suspended sentence. This incident prompted Jodie to campaign for stronger laws against deepfake pornography, leading to new UK legislation. | Jodie, 26-year-old woman from Cambridgeshire, UK | Image, Video | New York Post |
| Jan 09, 2025 | A Sydney teenager is under police investigation for allegedly creating and distributing explicit deepfake images of his female classmates via fake social media accounts. NSW police launched an investigation after a report on Monday regarding the inappropriate images. The NSW police, eSafety Commissioner, and the Department of Education are collaborating on the case. Disciplinary action against the high school student is pending. The student also faces potential criminal charges under Australia's Criminal Code Amendment Deepfake Sexual Material Bill 2024. | female classmates of a Sydney teenager | Image | AOL |
| Jan 08, 2025 | A male student created pornographic deepfake images of his female classmates using AI-generated images scraped from social media and school events. He distributed them via fake social media profiles. Police are investigating, and the school is providing support to the affected students. | Female classmates at a Sydney high school | Image | Decrypt |
| Jan 08, 2025 | A deepfake video falsely portrays UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer admitting to knowing about the Jimmy Savile investigation but dismissing claims as frivolous. The video uses AI-generated audio and manipulated video footage. Experts confirmed the video's AI manipulation and inconsistencies. The original video was from a 2012 Guardian video about social media prosecution guidelines. A previous deepfake of Starmer promoting an investment scheme was also cited. | Keir Starmer | Video, Audio | Full Fact |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Two separate deepfake attacks targeted healthcare professionals. Sir Jim Mann, a New Zealand endocrinologist, was the victim of a deepfake video promoting hemp gummies as a diabetes treatment. Los Angeles podiatrist Dana Brems was targeted by a deepfake advertisement using AI to clone her voice, promoting an ear-cleaning device. | Sir Jim Mann and Dana Brems | Video, Audio | Medpage Today |
| Jan 07, 2025 | A deepfake porn website targeted over 30 British female politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. | Over 30 British female politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner | Image, Video | News Central |
| Jan 07, 2025 | A pornographic deepfake of Northern Irish politician Cara Hunter was shared before an election, leading to harassment and public questioning. | Cara Hunter | Image, Video | THE DECODER |
| Jan 07, 2025 | The Guardian article discusses multiple instances of AI-generated deepfake audio. Georgina Findlay, a YouTube presenter, had her voice used in numerous videos by a far-right channel. Other examples include deepfake audio of Sadiq Khan making inflammatory remarks, David Attenborough's voice used in partisan US news, and a voice eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson's created using OpenAI technology. While specific dates aren't provided for each incident, the article highlights the increasing use of this technology for malicious purposes. | Georgina Findlay, Sadiq Khan, David Attenborough, Scarlett Johansson | Audio | The Guardian |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Deepfake pornography featuring the faces or bodies of at least 250 British celebrities superimposed onto explicit images or videos without their consent. Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman and former Love Island contestant Cally Jane Beech shared their experiences. The government is introducing a new offense to address this issue. | 250 UK celebrities, including Cathy Newman and Cally Jane Beech | Image, Video | Mint |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman's face was used to create deepfake pornography. The creator and their motive remain unknown. This event coincided with a UK government announcement of potential two-year prison sentences for creating such content. | Cathy Newman | Video | The Independent |
| Jan 07, 2025 | News presenter Cathy Newman was the victim of a deepfake pornography attack. The exact details of the attack, such as the date and specific content, are not provided in the given text. | Cathy Newman | Video, Image | Yahoo! Voices |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Over 30 British female politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, were targeted by a deepfake porn website, according to a Channel 4 investigation. The UK government will criminalize the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes. | Over 30 British female politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner | Image, Video | Punch Newspapers |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Deepfake pornography videos and images of Cathy Newman and approximately 250 other British celebrities, mostly women, were found online. The deepfakes were created by superimposing their faces onto existing pornography. While the authorities offered limited assistance initially due to the non-authenticity of the images, the UK government is planning a new deepfakes offence to target creators and distributors. | Cathy Newman and approximately 250 other British celebrities | Image, Video | The Independent |
| Jan 07, 2025 | From the United States to Italy, Britain, and Pakistan, female politicians are increasingly becoming victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography or sexualized images. An online boom in non-consensual deepfakes is outpacing efforts to regulate the technology globally, with cheap AI tools digitally undressing women. This imagery is used to tarnish reputations, jeopardize careers, undermine public trust, and create conditions for blackmail or harassment. In the U.S., the American Sunlight Project (ASP) identified over 35,000 instances of deepfake content depicting 26 members of Congress—25 women. Nearly one in six women in Congress have been victims. ASP did not release names to avoid public searches but privately notified offices. In the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was among over 30 British female politicians targeted by a deepfake porn website. In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is seeking damages from two men who created deepfake porn videos of her. In Pakistan, a deepfake video of lawmaker Meena Majeed was debunked, and Information Minister Azma Bukhari was targeted by a deepfake video. | Female politicians worldwide | Image, Video | The Hindu |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Social media influencer Cally Jane Beech had an AI-generated nude image created from one of her clothed photos and shared online. She found the deepfake incredibly realistic and reported it to the police, but faced difficulties due to the global nature of the hosting site and the police's unfamiliarity with this type of crime. | Cally Jane Beech | Image | Sky News |
| Jan 06, 2025 | Deepfake pornography and sexualized images targeting female politicians are spreading globally. The American Sunlight Project identified over 35,000 instances of deepfake content depicting 26 members of Congress (25 women) on pornographic sites. A Channel 4 investigation revealed that over 30 British female politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, were targeted by a deepfake porn website. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is suing two men for creating and distributing deepfake porn videos of her. Deepfake videos targeting female politicians have also surfaced in Pakistan, including fabricated videos of lawmaker Meena Majeed and Information Minister Azma Bukhari. | Multiple female politicians across the US, UK, Italy, and Pakistan | Image, Video | The Daily Courier |
| Jan 05, 2025 | A Hong Kong deepfake scam group used deepfakes to impersonate wealthy, single women to defraud victims in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Recruits were trained to discuss topics such as expensive red wine and golf, and to learn about victims' finances and cryptocurrency investments to build trust. Over HK$34 million in scam proceeds were intercepted by police. | Individuals in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia | Image, Video, Audio | South China Morning Post |
| Jan 05, 2025 | A Hong Kong based syndicate used deepfakes of attractive people to defraud victims through dating apps. The total amount defrauded exceeded HK$34 million (US$4.37 million). 31 people were arrested in connection with the scam. | Victims in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia | Image, Video | South China Morning Post |
| Jan 03, 2025 | Dozens of AI-generated videos depicting Donald Trump making various statements have circulated on social media in Kenya and Nigeria. In Kenya, a deepfake video of Trump threatening to withhold U.S. aid went viral on TikTok and X. In Nigeria, videos showed Trump announcing changes to U.S.-Nigeria immigration policy and calling for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, threatening aid withdrawal if Kanu wasn't released by November 31, 2024. Both videos contained inconsistencies like mismatched lip movements, and claims were unsubstantiated. | Kenya and Nigeria | Video | VOA Asia |
| Jan 02, 2025 | A Royal Air Force veteran, Jonathan Bates (54), received a five-year prison sentence for creating and distributing deepfake pornography of his ex-wife and three other women, whom he stalked for years. The images were posted on pornographic websites, including fake profiles advertising sexual services. The victims suffered severe impacts on their personal and professional lives, including fear, humiliation, and job loss. Police recovered thousands of images from his home. Despite efforts to remove the content, prosecutors stated the images would likely remain online indefinitely. Bates pleaded guilty to four counts of stalking and one count of revenge porn against his ex-wife. Each victim received a 10-year restraining order. | ex-wife and three other women | Image, Video | New York Post |
| Jan 02, 2025 | During the Delhi assembly elections in late 2024, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used deepfakes from shows like *Panchayat* and *Maharani*. BJP depicted AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal negatively, while AAP retaliated with deepfakes promoting their schemes. A deepfake of Pankaj Tripathi criticizing BJP was also shared. Other incidents involved Ranveer Singh, Kanchan Nagar, and Rajat Sharma. Zomato also faced criticism for using generative AI to create videos featuring celebrities without permission. | Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi Marlena, BJP, AAP, Ranveer Singh, Kanchan Nagar, Rajat Sharma | Video, Image | afaqs! |
| Jan 02, 2025 | A former paratrooper and teacher created deepfake porn profiles of four women, including his ex-wife, and posted the images on websites offering sexual services. One victim had a man show up at her home believing a date arranged online was legitimate; it was actually orchestrated by the perpetrator. Victims tracked down the perpetrator themselves after police initially failed to act. The perpetrator was jailed for five years for four counts of stalking and one of revenge porn. | Four ex-colleagues, including ex-wife | Image | Daily Mail |
| Jan 02, 2025 | A 54-year-old military veteran, Jonathan Bates, created and distributed deepfake revenge porn of four women he stalked. He used their photos from social media to create fake pornographic accounts on various websites, adding personal details from platforms like LinkedIn. The stalking spanned from 2017 to 2022. Bates pleaded guilty to four counts of stalking and one count of disclosing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress. Police investigations initially struggled to connect Bates to the fake accounts. | four women | Image, Video | Cornwall Live |
| Dec 31, 2024 | AI-generated deepfakes of Indian politicians were used to spread misinformation during elections. Fake videos of politicians making false claims (e.g., Amit Shah on ending reservations, Supriya Sule on Bitcoin fraud) were created and circulated. Deepfake videos of business leaders promoting investment scams also appeared. Similar tactics were used internationally, including in the Israel-Hamas conflict and in Bangladesh. | Multiple political figures in India (Amit Shah, Supriya Sule, etc.) and business leaders (Mukesh Ambani, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, etc.) | Video, Audio, Image | Vishvas News English |
| Dec 30, 2024 | A 17-year-old girl, Jaylyn Lee, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of promoting an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent. Lee is accused of distributing AI-generated nude photos of 14 high school girls. The photos were allegedly created by her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend using an AI app. Lee obtained the photos from her ex-boyfriend's phone, kept them for a month, and then sent them to 17 high school students, some of whom were not depicted in the images. Police stated that the creation or possession of AI-generated nude photos isn't illegal, but distributing them is. While the victims' parents want the ex-boyfriend charged, police say he didn't break any laws because he didn't distribute the photos. Lee's next court date is January 30th. | 14 high school girls | Image | Pensacola News Journal |
| Dec 30, 2024 | AI-generated deepfake images of Taylor Swift circulated on social media, causing widespread outrage. Microsoft responded by improving its deepfake prevention tools. | Taylor Swift | Image | The Economic Times |
| Dec 28, 2024 | A classmate created deepfake nude images of them using AI. Police declined to press charges due to legal ambiguities and insufficient evidence of distribution. The girls suffered emotional distress. | group of Toronto high school girls | Image | Toronto Star |
| Dec 27, 2024 | The author of a Channel 4 news report, along with numerous other celebrities and public figures, became victims of deepfake pornography. An investigation revealed millions of views across multiple websites. The article highlights the dehumanizing and violating experience for victims, the slow implementation of regulations, and the continued online presence of deepfakes despite notifications to tech companies. The case of Sophie Parrish, a 31-year-old florist, is used to illustrate the severe emotional distress caused by deepfake nudes. | The author of the Channel 4 news report, along with several other celebrities (Taylor Swift, Jenna Ortega, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Georgia Meloni) and other public figures | Video | Channel 4 News |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Deepfake images of Indian actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh with their infant daughter, and of actors Rashmika Mandanna and Vijay Deverakonda, circulated on Instagram. The images appeared in Instagram search results and garnered numerous likes despite being absent from the actors' official accounts. The origin of the deepfakes is unclear, and the images lacked AI-generated content labels. | Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Rashmika Mandanna, Vijay Deverakonda | Image | The Hindu |
| Dec 21, 2024 | A deepfake audio of President Biden urging Democrats not to vote in the New Hampshire primary was created by a Democratic political consultant. This resulted in a $6 million FCC fine and criminal charges. | Democratic voters in New Hampshire primary | Audio | NPR |
| Dec 21, 2024 | Multiple deepfake images of Pope Francis have been generated and circulated online. These include images showing him with Madonna, wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket, holding a Pride flag, on a beach, and with his face merged with that of an alleged murderer. The images were created using both paid platforms like Krea.ai and freely available models like Stable Diffusion. The creator, RickDick, stated that the images were intended as satire. | Pope Francis | Image | The Guardian |
| Dec 19, 2024 | A 77-year-old woman, Nikki MacLeod, was defrauded of £17,000 through a romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scammer, posing as a woman named Alla Morgan working on an oil rig, used the videos to build trust and then requested increasing sums of money under various fabricated pretenses. While some funds were recovered, personal payments sent via PayPal were not. A cybersecurity expert confirmed the videos' manipulation. | Nikki MacLeod | Video | BBC.com |
| Dec 18, 2024 | A classmate used AI to manipulate a picture of 15-year-old Elliston Berry from her Instagram, removing her dress and distributing the altered image on Snapchat. The image circulated for nine months. This incident prompted Elliston Berry to urge Congress to pass the Take It Down Act. | 15-year-old Elliston Berry | Image | CBS News |
| Dec 18, 2024 | A 15-year-old girl was victimized by AI-generated deepfake pornography. This prompted Congressional action to mandate social media platforms and websites to remove non-consensual, AI-created pornographic images. | 15-year-old girl | Image, Video | CBS News |
| Dec 17, 2024 | A study by the American Sunlight Project (ASP) found that women in the U.S. Congress are 70 times more likely to be victims of deepfake pornography than their male counterparts. The study analyzed 11 websites and found 26 members of Congress (25 women and one man) in deepfake content. Content targeting 14 members was removed within 48 hours of ASP notification. | Women US lawmakers | Image, Video | USA TODAY |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Over 35,000 mentions of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) targeting primarily female members of Congress were found on deepfake websites. The American Sunlight Project (ASP) found that women in Congress are 70 times more likely to be targeted than men. While most imagery was quickly removed after researchers contacted the affected lawmakers, the material can be easily re-shared. The impact extends beyond politics, with high school girls also being targeted. The lack of federal legislation poses risks to national security. | 25 female members of Congress and other women in public life | Image, Video | South Carolina Daily Gazette |
| Dec 12, 2024 | AI voice generator Lovo allegedly cloned the voices of voice actors Lehrman and Sage using recordings obtained through Fiverr, without their consent. The actors were misled about how their voice recordings would be used and later discovered that their voices were used commercially on Lovo's platform and in a podcast, under pseudonyms. A lawsuit alleging misuse of voice, copyright infringement and other claims has been filed. | Lehrman and Sage | Audio | The National Law Review |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Two teenage boys created and distributed 347 AI-generated deepfake pornographic images and videos of approximately 60 high school girls using photos from their public social media accounts. The images were shared within the school community. The boys were criminally charged with sexual abuse of children and possession of child pornography. This is considered the largest known instance of this crime involving minors in the US. Parents filed lawsuits against the school for negligence. | Approximately 60 high school girls, mostly from Lancaster Country Day School | Image, Video | Forbes |
| Dec 10, 2024 | Houston businessman Gary Cunningham lost $20,000 after criminals cloned his voice using AI to impersonate him to his accountant. In November, a fraudulent wire transfer was initiated, diverting funds to a new bank account. His email had been hacked and his voice cloned. A police report has been filed. | Gary Cunningham | Audio | FOX 26 Houston |
| Dec 05, 2024 | Two boys created hundreds of AI deepfake images of 48 students at Lancaster Country Day School and shared them in a private Discord chat. The images were primarily taken from victims' social media profiles and digitally altered. The boys face numerous sex crime charges. | 48 students at Lancaster Country Day School | Image | ABC27 |
| Dec 04, 2024 | Deepfake ads on YouTube featuring celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, Terry Crews, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, and Johnny Sins promoting an erectile dysfunction supplement called "Prolong Power". The ads used AI-generated voices and lip syncing on modified existing videos. The ads directed users to websites with a 40-minute presentation making exaggerated and unsubstantiated claims. Google removed the ads and suspended the account. | YouTube users | Video, Audio | 404 Media |
| Dec 04, 2024 | Over 1,100 fraudulent loan application attempts and over 1,000 fraudulent accounts were created using AI-generated deepfake images to bypass biometric verification systems, including liveness detection. Attackers obtained victim IDs through illicit channels (malware, social media, dark web), manipulated the images, and used them to deceive the system. Attackers used AI-generated deepfakes to bypass biometric verification and liveness detection. They also employed virtual camera software and app cloning to manipulate biometric data and simulate multiple devices. Potential losses in Indonesia alone are estimated at $138.5 million. | A prominent Indonesian financial institution | Image, Video | Forbes |
| Nov 29, 2024 | A BBC journalist used AI-generated voice cloning technology to bypass the voice ID systems of Santander and Halifax banks by using a recording of her AI-cloned voice saying, "My voice is my password." This highlights the vulnerability of current biometric security measures. | Santander and Halifax banks | Audio | CX Today |
| Nov 27, 2024 | A BBC reporter successfully accessed their bank accounts at Santander and Halifax using an AI-generated clone of their voice. A readily available recording of the reporter's voice was used to create the deepfake. Basic audio equipment was sufficient to bypass security measures. | Santander and Halifax bank accounts | Audio | BBC.com |
| Nov 26, 2024 | A deepfake audio recording mimicking President Joe Biden's voice urged voters to skip the New Hampshire primary election. | New Hampshire voters | Audio | Scripps News |
| Nov 25, 2024 | The voices of several public figures, including Sir David Attenborough, Sir Michael Parkinson, and Bill Gates, were cloned and used without their consent in various scenarios, including fraudulent advertisements and scams. A school principal received death threats via a deepfake audio clip. A CEO's voice was cloned in an attempt (unsuccessful) at corporate espionage. | multiple individuals and organizations | Audio | BBC.com |
| Nov 25, 2024 | A scammer created a deepfake video of Amanda Aguilar and used it on Facebook to contact John Pulido. The scammer, posing as Aguilar, attempted to obtain financial information from Pulido. The deepfake video was convincing enough to initially fool Pulido, but he became suspicious due to requests about his income and requested video proof. | Amanda Aguilar | Video | NBC Washington |
| Nov 25, 2024 | A user was able to clone Kamala Harris' voice and generate inappropriate speech using PlayAI's text-to-speech tool, bypassing the platform's safeguards. PlayAI's community portal also contained content with explicit titles. | Kamala Harris | Audio | TechCrunch |
| Nov 24, 2024 | Deepfakes of Elon Musk were used in cryptocurrency investment scams, resulting in billions of dollars in losses. One victim, Heidi Swan, lost over \$10,000. The FTC and BBB have issued warnings. The ease of creating these deepfakes was demonstrated using readily available AI tools. Deepfake detection websites show varying accuracy. | Elon Musk | Video, Image | CBS News |
| Nov 24, 2024 | A convincing fake Microsoft Teams meeting resulted in a $25 million loss to cybercriminals. | Unspecified business | Audio | eWeek |
| Nov 23, 2024 | Des Healey, a Brighton kitchen fitter, lost £76,000 to a deepfake scam using the likenesses and voices of Martin Lewis and Elon Musk in a fake Facebook advert promoting a Bitcoin investment scheme. He invested his life savings and took out multiple loans before his son alerted him to the scam. Two banks have since canceled his loans, but he still owes approximately £26,000. | Des Healey | Image, Video, Audio | BBC.com |
| Nov 18, 2024 | David Attenborough's voice was cloned and used in AI-generated deepfakes on YouTube videos about the Ukraine-Russia war and Donald Trump. Attenborough expressed concerns about his identity being stolen and used to promote messages he doesn't endorse. One deepfake creator claimed they weren't impersonating him, despite the obvious similarities. | David Attenborough | Audio | Deadline |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Fake audio messages were used in New Hampshire in January to discourage voting. These messages used a deepfake of President Biden's voice. | voters in New Hampshire | Audio | University of Florida |
| Nov 14, 2024 | AI-generated nude images of students were created and distributed. The school administration's failure to promptly report the initial incident in November 2023 led to more victims. The number of victims is disputed, ranging from 22 to over 50. Lawsuits and a student walkout have resulted from the mishandling of the situation. | Students at Lancaster Country Day School | Image | Government Technology |
| Nov 01, 2024 | A fake AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon circulated on social media, causing temporary market disruption. | financial markets | Image | Center for Strategic & International Studies |
| Oct 30, 2024 | The text describes several types of deepfake scams, including investment scams targeting an 82-year-old who lost \$690,000 to a deepfake Elon Musk, romance scams in Hong Kong resulting in over \$46 million in losses, political scams using AI-generated audio of Joe Biden, extortion scams (grandparent scams) resulting in over \$13 million in losses from January 2020 to June 2021, and celebrity endorsement scams featuring Taylor Swift. Specific details about each incident, such as exact dates and victims names are not provided. | Multiple individuals and groups | Image, Video, Audio | National Council on Aging |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Scammers used AI to clone Sunil Mittal's voice to attempt to defraud him. The attempt was unsuccessful, but others have lost money to similar scams. | Sunil Mittal | Audio | The Indian Express |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Dozens of Wiz employees received a deepfake voice message seemingly from the CEO, Assaf Rappaport. The deepfake used audio of Rappaport from a conference. The attack aimed to obtain employee credentials. The source of the audio was traced, but the perpetrators remain unidentified. | Wiz employees | Audio | TechCrunch |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Anthony was scammed out of $25,000 after fraudsters used AI to replicate his son's voice. The scammers called, claiming his son had been in an accident and needed bail money. Anthony sent money via Uber drivers who were unaware of the scam. Police confirmed the use of AI voice cloning and warned about the scammers' tactics. | Anthony | Audio | ABC7 Los Angeles |
| Oct 15, 2024 | A romance scam using deepfake AI resulted in losses exceeding $46 million. 28 people were arrested for creating realistic online personas of attractive women to build relationships with victims and coerce them into investing in a fake cryptocurrency platform. A training manual detailed methods to manipulate victims' emotions and trust. This followed a similar case where a Hong Kong company lost $25 million. | Men across Asia | Image, Video | CNN |
| Oct 15, 2024 | In early 2020, a Telegram bot was discovered that generated over 100,000 explicit AI-generated images, including those of children. A recent investigation revealed at least 50 Telegram bots claiming to create explicit photos and videos with minimal input, boasting over 4 million combined monthly users. These bots are often supported by associated Telegram channels with millions of subscribers, advertising new features, and offering "tokens" for use. Many bots clearly advertise their function—creating nude or sexually explicit images of women. Some require users to pay for tokens to use the service. One bot, with over 300,000 users, deceptively hid its explicit function behind a non-explicit name and landing page. Following WIRED's contact, Telegram removed 75 identified bots and channels; however, additional channels and bots quickly appeared. | Women and children | Image, Video | WIRED |
| Oct 10, 2024 | A New Jersey case involved students using an AI app to generate explicit images of over 30 girls. The case led to advocacy for legislation. A survey found 15% of high school students (estimated 2.3 million) were aware of school-associated deepfakes shared last year. Social media platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram were the primary means of sharing. A 32-year-old man in Louisiana was arrested for violating a new law prohibiting unlawful deepfakes involving minors. Two Florida middle schoolers were charged with felonies for generating intimate images of classmates. | Over 30 girls in a New Jersey school; other minors in various locations | Image, Video | Tech Policy Press |
| Oct 09, 2024 | AI-generated nude photos of over 20 female teenage students in Lancaster County were investigated. Senate Bill 1213 was passed to address the creation and distribution of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. | over 20 female teenage students | Image | Pennsylvania Senate Republicans |
| Oct 04, 2024 | A deepfake audio clip was created making it seem like the principal made racist and antisemitic comments. This led to death threats, administrative leave for the principal, and significant community division. The creator of the deepfake, the school's athletics director, was charged and is awaiting trial. | Eric Eiswert, principal of a high school in Baltimore suburb | Audio | BBC.com |
| Oct 02, 2024 | Scammers used AI to clone Jay Shooster's voice to convince his parents to send $30,000. They falsely claimed Shooster was in a car accident and needed bail money. Only 15 seconds of Shooster's voice from a recent TV appearance were used to create the AI clone. | Jay Shooster's parents | Audio | NDTV |
| Sep 30, 2024 | In early September 2024, Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) received a deepfake Zoom call from an imposter posing as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dymtro Kuleba. The imposter asked politically charged questions, arousing suspicion. The call was ended, and the Department of State confirmed its inauthenticity. Senator Cardin reported the incident, and an investigation is underway. | Senator Ben Cardin | Audio, Video | Dark Reading |
| Sep 27, 2024 | A woman received a call from a voice convincingly mimicking her daughter, demanding a $1 million ransom. While she confirmed her daughter's safety, the incident highlights the sophistication of these scams. | woman | Audio | BECU |
| Sep 26, 2024 | An AI-generated deepfake impersonating Dmytro Kuleba, the former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, initiated a video call with Senator Ben Cardin. The deepfake was sophisticated enough to fool initial observation, but inconsistencies were detected, and the call was ended. The incident is considered a targeted attack highlighting the increasing sophistication and potential for future deepfake attacks. | Senator Ben Cardin | Video, Audio | The Associated Press |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Elecrow, an electronics manufacturer, used AI to clone the voice of YouTuber Jeff Geerling to promote their products in video tutorials. The cloning was discovered by a subscriber and confirmed by Geerling. Elecrow's CEO apologized and offered compensation. The incident was publicized to raise awareness about AI voice cloning. | Jeff Geerling | Audio | Forbes |
| Sep 25, 2024 | An individual impersonating former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba contacted Senator Ben Cardin via Zoom. The impersonator's voice was likely AI-generated, and the conversation involved politically charged questions about supporting long-range missiles into Russia. The incident was reported to the Senate security office and the FBI and is believed to be an attempt to use the conversation for propaganda purposes, potentially by a Russian government actor. | Ben Cardin | Audio, Video | Punchbowl News |
| Sep 18, 2024 | In a deepfake incident, Hong Kong police investigated a case where an employee was tricked into transferring HK$200 million ($20 million USD) to fraudsters who used a deepfake video conference call impersonating company officers. The fraudster likely used AI to add fake voices to pre-downloaded videos. | Hong Kong company employee | Audio, Video | The Guardian |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Criminals are using AI to clone voices from just three seconds of audio, obtained from publicly available online content. The AI-powered scam involves cloning a victim's voice and then cold-calling their loved ones to request money. Hundreds of cases have been reported by Starling Bank, and data suggests 28% of UK adults have been targeted. | UK adults | Audio | Entrepreneur |
| Sep 09, 2024 | AI-powered voice cloning technology was used in vishing attacks. Examples include cloning the voice of WPP CEO Mark Read to attempt a fraudulent business deal; cloning a company director's voice resulting in a $40 million loss; targeting an Arizona woman with a call using her daughter's cloned voice to simulate an abduction and demand ransom; and targeting elderly individuals with calls mimicking a grandchild in distress. Deepfake videos of Elon Musk were also used in scams. | Multiple individuals and organizations including WPP CEO Mark Read, an Arizona woman, and elderly individuals. | Audio | Corporate Compliance Insights |
| Sep 03, 2024 | Scammers stole $25 million from British engineering group Arup by impersonating the CFO using deepfake technology. A staff member transferred funds to Hong Kong accounts after a video conference with the fraudulent CFO and other AI-generated employees. | Arup | Video, Audio | CFO Dive |
| Aug 31, 2024 | Lovo, a text-to-speech platform, allegedly obtained voice recordings from Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage through deception on Fiverr, claiming the recordings were for "research into speech synthesis." Lovo then allegedly created AI clones of their voices and sold them without permission or proper compensation. A lawsuit was filed alleging violations of rights of publicity and breach of contract. | Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage | Audio | BBC.com |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Multiple scam campaigns using deepfake videos of public figures to promote fake investment schemes and government giveaways. The campaigns were conducted in multiple languages and targeted various countries. A significant number of domains were used, and analysis suggests a single threat actor group was responsible. The Quantum AI campaign is highlighted as an example, using videos featuring Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Lee Hsien Loong, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam with AI-generated audio and lip-syncing. | Multiple individuals including Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Lee Hsien Loong, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and various government entities | Video, Audio | Unit 42 |
| Aug 21, 2024 | AI-generated robocall impersonating President Biden's voice, urging voters not to vote. Orchestrated by political consultant Steve Kramer, who faces separate penalties. Lingo Telecom, the voice service provider, paid a $1 million fine. | New Hampshire Democratic primary voters | Audio | NBC News |
| Aug 15, 2024 | A robocall featuring an AI-generated voice of President Biden urged Democrats not to vote in the New Hampshire primary. Paul Carpenter created the deepfake and was paid $150 by Steve Kramer, a political consultant who faces charges related to the robocall. The Phillips campaign denied involvement. | Democratic voters in the New Hampshire primary | Audio | CBS Boston |
| Aug 09, 2024 | During testing of OpenAI's GPT-4o system, the Advanced Voice Mode unexpectedly imitated a tester's voice, saying "No!" The model synthesized the sound from its training data. Safeguards have since been implemented. | a red teamer (adversarial tester) | Audio | Ars Technica |
| Aug 01, 2024 | A manipulated audio and video clip of Kamala Harris was shared by Elon Musk on X, sparking debate about deepfakes and their regulation. The deepfake, viewed over 150 million times, included edited clips and comments on diversity, Biden, and border policies. Similar deepfakes targeting other politicians have also emerged. | Kamala Harris | Audio, Video | NBC News |
| Jul 09, 2024 | Robocalls with a deepfake of President Biden's voice discouraged voters in the 2024 New Hampshire presidential primary. The alleged perpetrator was charged with felonies and misdemeanors related to voter suppression and impersonation, and faces a potential $6 million fine from the FCC. | New Hampshire primary voters | Audio | The Fulcrum |
| Jul 03, 2024 | A Baltimore high school principal was falsely depicted making racist and anti-Semitic remarks in a deepfake audio clip shared over 27,000 times. This led to his temporary suspension until the deepfake was proven false, resulting in a teacher's arrest. In February 2023, students in Putnam County, New York, created a deepfake video of their principal making violent threats. While disciplinary action was taken, some parents felt the school's response was insufficient. In October 2023, male students in New Jersey created pornographic deepfakes of female classmates, leading to parental criticism of the school's response. A Seattle-area high school failed to report a similar incident to law enforcement, highlighting the legal obligation to report such cases involving minors. | Baltimore high school principal;Putnam County, New York principal;female students in New Jersey;female classmates in Seattle-area high school | Audio, Video | Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Two voice actors, Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, are suing AI company Lovo for using their voice clips to train an AI voice cloning tool without consent. Their voices were allegedly used in YouTube videos and podcasts. | Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage | Audio | CBS News |
| Jun 17, 2024 | A deepfake video ad was created by a rival PAC during a Shreveport mayoral race. The ad falsely depicted Perkins as a student being scolded by a principal for failing to keep communities safe and create jobs. Perkins lost his reelection bid and believes the deepfake ad was a significant factor. | Adrian Perkins | Video | PBS NewsHour |
| May 31, 2024 | In January 2024, a deepfake of President Biden's voice, created using ElevenLabs' technology, circulated before the New Hampshire primary. In March 2024, a fabricated recording of a Slovakian presidential candidate falsely boasting about election rigging and price increases went viral, potentially influencing the election results. | President Biden, Rishi Sunak, Ursula von der Leyen, Slovakian presidential candidate | Audio | Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| May 29, 2024 | In January 2024, a Hong Kong firm lost US\$25 million to fraudsters using a deepfake video call to impersonate executives. | A Hong Kong firm | Video | Deloitte |
| May 23, 2024 | AI-generated deepfake robocall impersonating President Biden discouraged voters in New Hampshire's January primary. Political consultant Steve Kramer faces $6 million fine from the FCC and criminal charges for the incident. | Democratic voters in New Hampshire | Audio | NPR |
| May 09, 2024 | Approximately 5,000 New Hampshire voters received a robocall featuring an AI-generated voice of Joe Biden urging them not to vote in the primary, suggesting their votes would benefit Republicans. The software used was from ElevenLabs, requiring only a few hours of voice samples to create a convincing clone. | New Hampshire voters | Audio | The Atlantic |
| Apr 10, 2024 | An AI-generated voice impersonating President Joe Biden was used in a telephone message urging New Hampshire voters to abstain from the presidential primary. Election officials are investigating this incident. | New Hampshire voters | Audio | VOA Learning English |
| Apr 01, 2024 | Imran Khan, Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister, used AI-generated speeches to reach supporters before the February parliamentary elections. A political operative for Dean Phillips used a robocall impersonating President Joe Biden to discourage voters in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. | Imran Khan, Joe Biden | Audio | Al Jazeera English |
| Mar 11, 2024 | A synthesized version of Will Trapp's voice was used in a phone call scam. The callers, posing as a police officer and then a public defender, instructed Trapp's parents to withdraw $15,000 for his bail after a fake car accident. | Will Trapp's parents | Audio | Mustang News |
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