Description: A fake video and some photos circulated online depicting Moldova’s Economic Development Minister, Dumitru Alaiba, in compromising situations as part of an alleged disinformation campaign by pro-Kremlin supporters, one that has been reported to rely on AI to generate fake content. Alaiba denounced the media as poorly made fakes that were released to mislead the public and influence Moldova’s elections by undermining his reputation and the government's pro-European Union stance.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown AI developers and Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Government of Russia , Pro-Russian influencers and Anti-European Union influencers, which harmed Dumitru Alaiba , Government of Moldova , Pro-European Union Moldovans , Moldovan general public , Electoral integrity and Democracy.
Incident Stats
Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
4.1. Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- Malicious Actors & Misuse
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
Human
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Intentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
“Poor quality fakes”. This is how Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization Dumitru Alaiba commented on the video and photo images shared on a Telegram channel, in which a person with physical features similar to his appears in a …
Moldova's police chief, appointed by a government committed to joining the European Union and leaving Russia's orbit, was alarmed to find his country's capital suddenly plastered with posters bearing a blunt message: "No EU."
The posters --…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
unreviewed
Incident Date:
2024-10-01
