Description: A new deepfake video falsely showed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong endorsing an investment product with guaranteed returns. Scammers synchronized fake audio with real footage from his 2023 National Day speech, making it appear as though he had made the endorsement. Lee called this “extremely worrying” and warned that deepfake scams are becoming more sophisticated. He urged the public to report such scams through the government’s ScamShield Bot.
Editor Notes: Two significant AI incidents involving Lee Hsien Loong occurred several months apart from each other. This incident pertains to the June 2024 one. The other one, Incident 985, pertains to a December 2023 incident while he was Prime Minister. See also Incident 988 for information pertaining to disinformation-related deepfakes of Lee that emerged in late June 2024.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown voice cloning technology developer and Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Scammers impersonating Lee Hsien Loong , scammers and Fraudsters, which harmed Lee Hsien Loong and General public of Singapore.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown voice cloning technology and Unknown deepfake apps
Incident Stats
Incident ID
986
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-06-02
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SINGAPORE - Singaporeans must stay vigilant to protect themselves and those around them from deepfake scams, said Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is again depicted promoting investment products in one such scam.
In a Facebook post on J…
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.
